What's this about?
A Latent Space episode where shloked does a deep teardown of ChatGPT Work — an extension of OpenAI's Codex harness to cloud and general knowledge work — including how it crossed 10M users about three weeks after its July 9 launch.
What exactly is a "harness teardown"?
Rather than reviewing the model, shloked reverse-engineers the engineering *around* it — the prompts, tools, and orchestration that make the product work. These teardowns have become a genre because so much of a product's quality now lives in the harness, not the base model.
Why it matters
It's a rare concrete look at how a frontier product is actually built and what drove explosive adoption.