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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
This can be overwhelming for newcomers, and even for practitioners trying to keep up with the latest developments. After ICLR 2026, one of us (@ariG23498) posted a question that captured this confusion well:
"What do you mean by the terms 'harness' and 'scaffold' in the context of agents? I have heard a lot of explanations while I was at ICLR, but I could not understand why they did not converge to a single explanation."