saas

Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model, whether or not they’ve realized it yet.

If this continues, there’s a world where 3rd party harnesses become less valuable when used with frontier lab models because the 1st party harness behavior is already baked in. And there’s no longer a fine tuning escape hatch to generalize this behavior away.

It’s going to be funny if the network effects the AI labs have been searching for end up looking just like the network effects of the SaaS era. Coding harnesses, managing the environments around the agent, look a whole lot like the SaaS platforms of old.