Issue No. 40Week ending Sunday, October 4, 2026507 episodes · 2183 articles
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Agent harness: how often the top podcasts talk about it.

Agent harness came up in 8 of 89 episodes (9%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, about the same share as in the earlier weeks (7%).

8 of 89episodes, four weeks to Sep 27

Share of episodes, four weeks at a time

4%May 102 of 5213%Jun 76 of 466%Jul 54 of 6911%Aug 26 of 554%Aug 302 of 559%Sep 278 of 89
Share of episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover that said “agent harness”, “harness engineering” or “the harness” at least twice, in blocks of four weeks. Each label is the block's last Sunday. The newest block is the orange bar on the right.
The 8 episodes behind the newest bar

Earliest mentions in our archive

The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.

“…unlimited. If you use Anthropic's own agent harness, are you part of the bundled flat rate? You can assume that…”

All-In Podcast · week ending Apr 5 · Watch at 26:30 ↗

Anthropic’s $30B Ramp, Mythos Doomsday, OpenClaw Ankled, Iran War Ceasefire, Israel's Inf…

“…would say like 95% of the limitation is not from the model. It's it's from the harness. So like it's my job to to to…”

Latent Space · week ending May 3 · Watch at 15:03 ↗

⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founde…

“…developer around actually a coding agent. What is the harness for the enterprise? Is there an equivalent…”

No Priors · week ending Jun 7 · Watch at 9:49 ↗

The Rise of the Full-Stack Builder and Hyper-Leveraged Generalist with Microsoft CEO Saty…

“…it's a It's a screenshot. But maybe maybe the harness is just saying like sorry if you don't know that…”

TBPN · week ending Jun 14 · Watch at 30:57 ↗

Facebook gets a movie, Anthropic gets a Fable, Vinod Khosla, Matthew Prince, Bret Taylor

“…right? It it takes a model, pairs it with an agent harness. And what is an agent harness? Think of…”

20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Jun 21 · Watch at 12:54 ↗

How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China & Power is the Bottleneck to AI | Perplexity CEO

“…advent of coding agents and like the coding agent harness in particular, now this AI is going out and like reading…”

How I AI · week ending Aug 9 · Watch at 0:13 ↗

How this OpenAI engineer uses Codex + ChatGPT Work to automate everything

Most recent mentions

The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.

“…harness. Just like when the when the uh models got good at code, the harness became very important. We saw claude…”

TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 13:20 ↗

John Arnold Joins, 4 Tech Arguments (Number 3 Will Shock You)

“…the reality is that there is no one AI kill switch. We've moved from models to agents. Those agents are connected to multiple models. They have an agent harness. They're connected to MCP servers and tools, and those agents are acting within a fleet delegating to one another and interacting with…”

Practical AI · week ending Sep 27 · Listen at 11:26 ↗

From AGENTS.md to Enterprise Deployment

“…recently and just getting our own internal um agent harness uh which we call Toshi uh just integrated with all…”

No Priors · week ending Sep 13 · Watch at 14:18 ↗

Coinbase’s Everything Exchange: Agentic Finance, Stablecoins & Tokenization with CEO Bria…

“…and I see it it pulling for tools and skills. So is this like part of the harness which is it's kind of like tuned…”

How I AI · week ending Sep 13 · Watch at 12:25 ↗

Stripe built a company brain: Meet Kai

“…specifically and open have the benefit of being both the model provider and the harness provider that the open weights…”

20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 6 · Watch at 5:47 ↗

ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern

Which shows say it

ShowLast four weeksAll weeks counted
TBPN36
Practical AI22
20VC with Harry Stebbings12
How I AI12
No Priors12
Latent Space011
All-In Podcast04

More trends

Episodes in the newest four weeks:

How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “agent harness”, “harness engineering” or “the harness” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads we can spot: the lines around phrases like “brought to you by”, and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of April 13, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.

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