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%).
Share of episodes, four weeks at a time
The 8 episodes behind the newest bar
- John Arnold Joins, 4 Tech Arguments (Number 3 Will Shock You)TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it twice
- From AGENTS.md to Enterprise DeploymentPractical AI · week ending Sep 27 · said it twice
- Computer-Use Agents and the Future of the Agentic InternetPractical AI · week ending Sep 13 · said it 5 times
- Coinbase’s Everything Exchange: Agentic Finance, Stablecoins & Tokenization with CEO Bria…No Priors · week ending Sep 13 · said it twice
- Stripe built a company brain: Meet KaiHow I AI · week ending Sep 13 · said it 5 times
- Model Mayhem, Nvidia Hugging Face, Pablo Torre Joins, New Data Center DesignsTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
- 🔴 LIVE From CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026TBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it 9 times
- ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 6 · said it 3 times
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…”
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…”
⚡️ 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…”
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…”
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…”
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 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…”
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…”
“…recently and just getting our own internal um agent harness uh which we call Toshi uh just integrated with all…”
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…”
“…specifically and open have the benefit of being both the model provider and the harness provider that the open weights…”
ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern
Which shows say it
| Show | Last four weeks | All weeks counted |
|---|---|---|
| TBPN | 3 | 6 |
| Practical AI | 2 | 2 |
| 20VC with Harry Stebbings | 1 | 2 |
| How I AI | 1 | 2 |
| No Priors | 1 | 2 |
| Latent Space | 0 | 11 |
| All-In Podcast | 0 | 4 |
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.