Meta-Harness Verdict: The Model Is a Commodity, the Harness Is the Moat
You’re obsessing over model weights while your scaffolding is leaking tokens. Stanford just proved that the code around the AI is where the real wins live.
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Micah Berkley, known as The AI Mogul, is the Fractional Chief of AI for businesses that know they are behind. He has built with and taught practical AI for over a decade.
Micah Berkley, known as The AI Mogul, is the Fractional Chief of AI for mid-market businesses. He spent two decades in enterprise tech, including senior cloud architecture at Google, and he ships product: Claresto.com, an ad operations command center for paid media. He was featured on the front page of the Miami Herald and runs free weekly AI training for underserved entrepreneurs in Miami. He founded Run the Eval to cut through AI hype with honest, evidence first reviews.
Every verdict on this desk carries his byline because someone has to be accountable for the call. The pipeline does the legwork — the judgment, and the responsibility for getting it wrong, stay human. That standard is written down in how we test.
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