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Decoupling models from harnesses brings three benefits: evaluating agent quality across the board, flexibly choosing stronger or cheaper models according to task difficulty to control costs, and avoiding lock-in to a single vendor; the cost is the need for an additional adaptation layer and a unified observability interface.
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The AI Engineer's Role Has Shifted: From Writing Code to Building Agent Factories
bilibiliAIToBox10/25/2026
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