Agents
Model providers don’t lock you in with the API. They lock you in with your own data. Memory is the moat. If you don’t own your agent’s harne…
Model providers don’t lock you in with the API. They lock you in with your own data. Memory is the moat. If you don’t own your agent’s harness, you don’t own your agent’s memory. And switching means s
Model providers don’t lock you in with the API. They lock you in with your own data. Memory is the moat. If you don’t own your agent’s harness, you don’t own your agent’s memory. And switching means starting from zero. @hwchase17 nailed this today.
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- 'Harnesses are intimately tied to memory, which means that by choosing an open harness you are choosing to own your memory, and not have it …
- OPEN MEMORY, OPEN HARNESS the industry shifts to closed agent harnesses locking memory behind proprietary apis. https://x.com/hwchase17/stat…
- TLDR; memory = harness => keep your memory and harness on your side of the API.
- Memory is where the harness stops being a wrapper and becomes an ownership layer. Once it controls what gets remembered, retrieved, compress…
- “Memory is important, and it creates lock in” Exactly why I don’t want OpenAI, Anthropic or any of the other AI companies owning it.
Source: Harrison Chase (X) | 2026-04-12