Life in the Singularity Ep. 4: Harnesses vs. Models, Skill Files & Has AGI Already Arrived?
Matt McDonagh is back for episode four of Life in the Singularity, and this week he pulls back the curtain on the difference between a model and the harness built around it. He explains why the model is probabilistic while the harness is deterministic, how guardrails keep outputs in bounds, and when it actually makes sense to fine-tune a model instead of leaning on the big general ones. From there Matt opens up his own setup on screen: projects in Codex backed by GitHub, a research operation he calls the Compute Intelligence Agency that tracks the frontier labs, and a general manager thread…
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