> The real value in these tools is not the model, it is the harness... And that is the part that is easiest to replicate.
> The companies that will win long-term are the ones building open protocols and letting users bring their own model.
These seem contradictory. It sounds like you're saying that the long term winners are the ones who do the easy part. The future I see is open source harnesses talking to commodity models.
I agree, but that's not something you can maintain an advantage on for long.
Perhaps there's enough overlap among the low hanging fruit that you can initially sell a harness that makes both genomics researchers and urban planners happy... but pretty quickly you're going to need to be the right kind of specialist to build an effective harness for it.
There is barely any magic in the harness, the magic is in the model.
Try it: write your own harness with (bash, read, write, edit) ... it's trivial to get a 99% version of (pick your favorite harness) -- minus the bells and whistles.
The "magic of the harness" comes from the fun auxiliary orchestration stuff - hard engineering for sure! - but seriously, the model is the key item.
andrewflnr|11 days ago
> The companies that will win long-term are the ones building open protocols and letting users bring their own model.
These seem contradictory. It sounds like you're saying that the long term winners are the ones who do the easy part. The future I see is open source harnesses talking to commodity models.
herzigma|11 days ago
__MatrixMan__|11 days ago
Perhaps there's enough overlap among the low hanging fruit that you can initially sell a harness that makes both genomics researchers and urban planners happy... but pretty quickly you're going to need to be the right kind of specialist to build an effective harness for it.
mccoyb|11 days ago
There is barely any magic in the harness, the magic is in the model.
Try it: write your own harness with (bash, read, write, edit) ... it's trivial to get a 99% version of (pick your favorite harness) -- minus the bells and whistles.
The "magic of the harness" comes from the fun auxiliary orchestration stuff - hard engineering for sure! - but seriously, the model is the key item.