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Stop Shopping for Models: Your Harness Is the Only Asset You Keep

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The opinion, up front Model choice is a commodity decision. The harness that proves a model is good enough is the asset. Most teams have this exactly backwards. They spend three weeks reading leaderboards. They spend one afternoon writing the test that decides the switch. Then they argue about mode…

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  1. 2026-10-18 07:16 · DEV Community — AI
    Stop Shopping for Models: Your Harness Is the Only Asset You Keep

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