Latent Space
Extreme Harness Engineering for Token Billionaires: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code, 0% human review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI Frontier & Symphony
April 7, 20261h 12m · 14,246 words
Show notes
We’re proud to release this ahead of Ryan’s keynote at AIE Europe. Hit the bell, get notified when it is live! Attendees: come prepped for Ryan’s AMA with Vibhu after. Move over, context engineering. Now it’s time for Harness engineering and the age of the token billionaires.
Highlighted moments
the only fundamentally scarce thing is the synchronous human attention of my team there's only so many hours in the day
“initially the codex driving the code author was willing to be bullied by the pr reviewer which meant you could end up in a situation where things were not converging”
“we went from a bespoke make file build to basil to turbo to nx and just left it there because builds were fast at that point”
“there's this fundamental tension which i think you have talked about between whether or not we invest deeper into the harness or we invest deeper into the training process to get the model to do more of this by default”
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