Creator perspectiveAlex Zhang frames a harness as a very opinionated program over how you want a language model to be form-fit to a problem — a design choice you can vary, like an architecture choice (e.g., loop transformers can be modeled as a harness looping over the model, though it differs because you're not decoding). He argues next-token prediction is a really awkward format for solving many difficult tasks — when navigating a codebase on a task like SWE-bench, a single language model call cannot figure out how to solve the query over the codebase — which is why harnesses exist. When thinking about what a harness is doing, consider what choices in the harness let the language model solve the task, and whether a model architecture could just do this natively instead.
Latent.Space · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT
Creator perspectiveAlex Zhang argues we should rethink what the role of harnesses is, because harnesses can actually greatly increase the generalization capability of your model and the amount of data it's given. Serious gains can come from very opinionated and good harness design that lends itself better to scale. The RLM is a very primitive inductive bias — there's nothing super special about the design other than the fact that it's very different than what we currently do, but it may scale much better with available data and environments. There is a wide class of harnesses yet to be discovered that can yield similar generalization properties — this is not exclusive to RLMs. We can be a lot more creative with language models than just designing a new coding harness with a special form of compaction — there
Latent.Space · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT
Principle · MoneyLeverage the networks of your executives, partners, clients, and board members rather than relying solely on your own network; a strong personal network is not required.
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Principle · MoneySocial selling relies on leveraging weak ties (former colleagues, complementary product sellers, current network) to gain access to prospects rather than relying on direct access.
30 Minutes to President's Club | No-Nonsense Sales · Introducing: The Warm Pipeline Machine (Social Selling Course)
Creator perspective · BodyScientific literature and consensus suggest that bad posture is not strongly correlated with back pain. Instead, pain is often caused by stiffness from staying in one position too long or hyper-focusing on maintaining 'good' posture.
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Report · MoneyThe industry is moving from human-centric review to automated, agent-driven review systems (e.g., GitHub Copilot, CodeRabbit, Cursor) where humans design the loops rather than inspecting every line.
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AI Engineer · The Death of the Code Review: What the Data Actually Says — Laurie Voss, Arize AI
Report · MoneyThe rise of AI agents has dramatically increased code production speed, but human review speed remains constant, creating a bottleneck where code review chokes the path to production.
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AI Engineer · The Death of the Code Review: What the Data Actually Says — Laurie Voss, Arize AI
Creator perspective · MoneyDifferentiate agents by 'presumptuousness' (proactivity) rather than just personality; high presumptuousness is a defensible moat.
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The a16z Show · The Personal Agent Race Is Here | Anish Acharya & David Pawlan
Creator perspective · MoneyRecognize that general consumers prioritize spending time/entertainment over saving time/efficiency; do not market agents primarily on '10% more efficient' claims.
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The a16z Show · The Personal Agent Race Is Here | Anish Acharya & David Pawlan
PrincipleThe goal is to expand what software itself can do so that things which should be automatable can actually be automated, rather than just automating code generation.
The a16z Show · AI Can Write Code. Why Isn’t Software Better?
Principle · MoneyFounders and leaders should set the tone by being brilliant and driven, but also accessible and involved in day-to-day details. Avoid bureaucratic bottlenecks; allow direct communication (e.g., Slack) with founders.
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The a16z Show · Building a Team at AI Speed | Harvey’s Maggie Landers
Principle · MoneyShare work-in-progress and admit mistakes openly to create a culture of rapid learning. Avoid consensus-driven decision making; prioritize progress over perfection and avoid waiting for excessive input.
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The a16z Show · Building a Team at AI Speed | Harvey’s Maggie Landers
Principle · MoneyHarvey is super customer-centric with an upmarket motion. AI transformation is more than just building a great product; it requires deep admiration for the legal industry and a desire to transform it. Every team member should feel connected to customer goals.
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The a16z Show · Building a Team at AI Speed | Harvey’s Maggie Landers
Principle · BodyBoth the stretch position (shoulder flexion, elbow overhead) and the fully shortened position (arm behind body) are necessary for complete triceps development.
ATHLEAN-X™ · STOP, You're Training Your Triceps All Wrong!
Creator perspective · BodyJeff Cavaliere explains that difficulty filling shirt sleeves from the front indicates a width problem that bicep curls alone cannot solve. The width of the arm is determined by the brachialis muscle, not the biceps. To grow thicker or wider arms, you must train the brachialis specifically. When the brachialis hypertrophies, it pushes the biceps up, improving arm width and height from all angles.
ATHLEAN-X™ · STOP, You're Training Your Biceps All Wrong!
Report · BodyJeff Cavaliere states that in a reverse lunge, the front leg stays in contact with the ground, which reduces knee stress and provides relief from knee pain.
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Method · BodyBakken recommends the stair test as a really good way of monitoring how your muscle tone is from day to day: walk up the same stairs every day and notice how heavy your legs are feeling. If each day you're getting a little bit longer and a little bit heavier — feeling heavy at the start of sessions that get easier — that's a warning sign.
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Garage Strength · The Genius Who Solved Endurance Training w/ Dr. Marius Bakken
Recommendation · MoneyIf something goes wrong with quantization, the Flappy Bird won't flap anymore, signaling something needs investigation; one point or more of movement on a saturated benchmark means something's gone wrong and the model will struggle with real-world activity; if the model can't optimize its kernels anymore, that's a signal to look at the quantization.
Y Combinator · Not All Open Model Tokens Are the Same | YC Paper Club
Recommendation · FuelHuberman recommends that if taking fadogia agrestis, you obey the dosages recommended on product labels and cycle it. He suggests cycling off every eight weeks or so for two weeks, or taking it for 12-week periods then cycling off for a full month before repeating. He emphasizes that a recommended dosage of 600 milligrams per day is not an invitation to take twice as much and expect twice the positive effects; stay within recommended ranges, going lower but certainly not higher. He also suggests considering a lower dosage and seeing how it affects your hormones, which requires more patience.
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Andrew Huberman · Essentials: Developing a Rational Approach to Supplementation for Health & Performance
Recommendation · FuelHuberman describes that when people approach him asking which single supplement they should take, he asks them three questions: how well are you sleeping at night, how's your nutrition, and what's your budget. Assuming somebody can spend about $100 or more per month, he recommends not focusing on supplements directed toward sleep, focus, or hormone augmentation, but rather on buffering and enhancing foundational nutrition, adaptogens, probiotics, prebiotics, and digestive enzymes, because this raises the tide on all biological and organ systems leading to enhanced mental health, physical health, and performance, including sleep.
Andrew Huberman · Essentials: Developing a Rational Approach to Supplementation for Health & Performance