David Talpalar · 27 August 2026 · Investment Thesis

The Power of the AI Harness: Long Live the Application Layer

David Talpalar, GP @ Shirlawn Capital

NVIDIA's research showing Claude 3.5 Opus achieving 100% on ARC-AGI-3 with a specialized harness versus 30% without demonstrates that AI's value increasingly accrues to the application layer—the software infrastructure wrapping models—not just the models themselves.

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