Tag: agent harness
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Enterprise Applications to Lose $234 billion of spending to agents by 2030
Gartner puts $234 billion of enterprise application spend at risk from agents by 2030. I mapped 25 unnamed vendors into four phases, and the ones that survive own the record, not the screen.
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Agentic AI Payoff: Govern the Loop, Not the Spend
One of the largest asset managers in the world says AI has delivered zero financial payoff outside tech. The model was never the missing piece. The harness was. I lay out the six layers that turn token spend into a margin the CFO can see.
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Agentic AI Harness: Nobody Drives an Engine
An agentic AI harness is everything in the agent except the model. The engine is the model. The fuel tank, transmission, gears, brakes, key, governor and dashboard are the harness. This post maps all seventeen, one car part at a time.
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Agent Harness Companies: Own the Refinery, Not the Well
AI labs now sell the machinery around their models. Here is what ten harness companies do, and why I would rent the model but own the controls.
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Agentic AI Harness Drift: Version the Harness Like a Model
You cannot claim change control because you pinned a model version. You can claim it when the harness itself is an inventoried, versioned, eval-gated artifact.
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Agentic AI Governance: Managing the Harness Across the Five-Stage Roadmap
What Agentic AI Governance Actually Governs Agentic AI governance is the discipline of controlling what an AI agent is allowed to do, verifying what it actually did, and proving both to an auditor — and in 2026 the object of that governance is no longer the model. It is the harness. The industry has converged…
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27 Key Agentic AI Terms, What They Mean and Where They Came From
This is a glossary of 27 key agentic AI terms — what each one means, where it came from, and one authoritative source to read for each. The vocabulary of agentic AI has moved faster than any enterprise glossary I have seen in twenty years of consulting. Terms that were lab jargon eighteen months ago…