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Nicolas Carmont Zaragoza

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

I'm Nick Carmont, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. I work with our fastest growing coding and AI-native startups on a range of technical topics, from harnessing and evals to model launches and testing. Before that I led teams of forward deployed engineers at AI labs, and was a startup founder and CTO.

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3 November

12:25 PM · 30 min

52AConference Session

Building a harness that keeps up with the latest models

Every new model changes what a good harness looks like. The prompts, guardrails and workarounds that made the last one work can hold the next one back.

I work with AI-native startups at Anthropic to keep their harnesses in step with each new frontier model, so they get the best out of it on their use cases from day one.

This talk is about building a harness that keeps up: how to spot what a new model no longer needs, test what changed fast, and ship the upgrade in days, not months. Practical tips and tricks, straight from the field.