Lilian Weng recaps harness engineering for AI agents; Anthropic expands Claude Cowork

Lilian Weng's latest research recap focuses on harness engineering for recursive self-improvement (RSI), synthesizing insights from 35 papers. She emphasizes that even as core models improve, the need to specify goals and context will persist. The AI Twitter Recap highlights Anthropic's expansion of its "background agent" UX with Claude Cowork, making Claude a task-running teammate. Additionally, harness engineering is becoming central to agent design, with new courses and projects from LangChain and productization by Google's Gemini API. AI

IMPACT Highlights the growing importance of harness engineering in AI agent design and Anthropic's move towards task-running AI teammates.

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