When to Build Your Own Agent Harness | Harrison Chase, LangChain
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An agent is a harness orchestrating a model and context. If you want to own your intelligence, you probably want to own all three. LangChain co-founder and CEO Harrison Chase focuses on the harness: t
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Harnesses. I think this is a very important topic. A lot of you are thinking through building your own harnesses right now. Um, I'm very excited to introduce Harrison. I first noticed Harrison on Twitter in 2022, back in the GPT-3 era. And Harrison was one of the first people thinking about, "Okay, we have these models. How can we build an entire harness around them so that they're not just um auto-complete uh tasks, but that they start acting as virtual collaborators or agents?" Um and Harrison, like the ecosystem has grown so much since 2022, and I've seen you you also grow a lot in terms of how you think about building agents, building harnesses, how to eval them, etc. Um so, I'm very excited to have you talk today. I think the talk's going to be both about harnesses and evals. And then…
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