Building an AI-first project
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The hard part of building an AI product is no longer the model. Anyone can call an LLM in three lines. The hard part is everything around it: the tools the model can call, the knowledge it loads, the parts of its work you can see, and the moments where a human stays in control. That surrounding system is the harness, and in an AI-first product the harness is the product.
This is how I think about building one, and the smallest real version you can run today with Distri.