Home Speakers Ali Ghodsi Quote Then agents arrived. In a matter of months, organizations effectively doubled their workforce, just not with humans. Agents write code, make calls, and run loops at a pace human teams never could.
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What this means is that model performance isn’t the only thing that matters: the integration between model and harness is where true agent differentiation is found. About this quote 
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