Attention — Oct 24, 2026
What caught my attention on Oct 24 (2 items).
Harness² Explained: Self-Improving Agents Without Training
Prompt Engineering (Article:07:34) - Published 2026-10-23 18:00 - Discovered 2026-10-24 07:34
The video explains Harness², a framework from Google Cloud AI Research and Northwestern University that lets an AI agent rewrite its own operating harness—its prompts, skills, scripts, subagents, and control-loop hooks—for each new task without retraining the model. It begins by noting that fixed agent frameworks are poorly matched to specific tasks; the same model can perform differently in Claud…
SteamOS, Linux, & Microsoft’s Valve-Sized Problem, ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs
Gamers Nexus (Article:19:45) - Published 2026-10-23 18:00 - Discovered 2026-10-24 19:45
This Gamers Nexus discussion with Wendell of Level1 Techs centers on Valve’s growing investment in Linux and SteamOS as a strategic response to Microsoft’s direction for Windows. The speakers argue that Microsoft’s shareholder-driven priorities make Windows an existential risk to Valve’s business model: Microsoft increasingly pushes cloud services, telemetry, OneDrive, and store ecosystems that pr…