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6 thoughts on the future of AI
The model is not the product. The harness is.
Alex Shkor · founder, Shkor Labs & Cooperative 42
cil.byswipe
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01 · Models
Models are rented, interchangeable and trending to free.
Supply grows every quarter. Prices race to zero. Building on the model alone means building on sand.
PRICE PER TOKEN → 0
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02 · The harness
The harness is everything around the model.
MODELa commodity
principles
decisions
skills
memory
tools
rituals
The model thinks. The harness decides what it thinks about, how, and for whom.
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03 · The trap
A year of working with AI, and most people own nothing of it.
Every correction you type lives in a chat window. Scattered, forgotten, locked in someone else’s product.
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04 · The shift
Working with AI gives you answers.
Working on your harness gives you equity.
Competitors can rent the same models. They cannot copy two years of your harness.
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05 · The org
The org chart is half human, half agents.
In our studio a board decision at 10:00 is law across every agent by 10:04.
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06 · Next
Next, agents hire agents.
The agent mesh becomes a labor market. A tuned harness for a niche becomes a product you can sell.
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Everyone will have a harness in five years. Own yours, before it owns your future.
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