The harness, not the model — and the trust layer racing to catch up
One developer catching you up on the day in AI and the craft of building with it. Today: the wrapper around a model can move a benchmark more than the model does, a watermark goes multi-lab, and a decensoring tool with thirteen million downloads shows where that watermark leaks. Plus a sharp little essay on why coding agents make us so mad, the jobs data behind the panic, and three things you can pick up today.
The harness, not the model — a Google DeepMind Kaggle talk and an arXiv position paper argue the agent harness can swing a score ~22% while frontier models tie.
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