# Ben Thompson - Agents Over Bubbles (Highlights)  ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/59059292) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/reader **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Ben Thompson]] **Full Title**:: Agents Over Bubbles **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [stratechery.com](https://stratechery.com/2026/agents-over-bubbles/) **Host**:: [[stratechery.com]] **Highlighted**:: [[2026-03-16]] **Created**:: [[2026-03-21]] ## Highlights - Rather, a critical component of making agentic workloads work is the “harness”, i.e. the software that actually controls the model. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kkvgjzgy8d5xw4e1k57jb6zd)) ^997529062 - Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex actually abstract the user away from the model: you give instructions to an agent, which actually directs the model; critically, the agent can also use other deterministic tools as well, which means that it can verify its results. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kkvgkatn3mvt7rs9ykrs0g0q)) ^997529104 - Large language models are intelligent, but they do not have goals or values or drive. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kkvgp8m1ybkeq5tyg59h3jr0)) ^997529634 - How many industries, though, are not media, in that they still need a team to implement the vision of one person? How many apps or services are there that haven’t been built, not because one person can’t imagine them or create them in their mind, but because they haven’t had the resources or team or coordination capabilities to actually ship them? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kkvgqx2y5xskf1a58c0607w7)) ^997530390