Box's Aaron Levie: On Reinventing Yourself in the AI Age and Enterprise Diffusion
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Why it matters
Argues that a agent harnessThe scaffolding around a model that turns it into a working agent — the loop, the tools it can call, and the rules for when to stop.Full definition → tuned to its own file system, permissions, and search beats raw frontier APIs on accuracy and latency, and that lab tokenThe chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.Full definition → subsidies will not last. Both bear on build-versus-buy and model routingSending each request to a model chosen by the difficulty of the task, rather than using one model for everything.Full definition → choices.
Terms in this piece · Glossary
agent harness — The scaffolding around a model that turns it into a working agent — the loop, the tools it can call, and the rules for when to stop.
token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
model routing — Sending each request to a model chosen by the difficulty of the task, rather than using one model for everything.
