# Designing an AI serving harness built to last

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> **Original Source**: [MIT Technology Review](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/22/1146109/designing-an-ai-serving-harness-built-to-last/)
> **Author**: Anand Logani (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Thursday, October 22, 2026
> **Category**: RESEARCH
> **Tags**: AI, MIT Technology Review, research

## Executive Summary
The next competitive advantage in enterprise AI has less to do with which model you choose than with what you build around it. That's an important shift.



## Full Coverage
The engineering system surrounding an AI model increasingly determines whether its intelligence can be delivered reliably, economically, and at scale

The next competitive advantage in enterprise AI has less to do with which model you choose than with what you build around it

That's an important shift. For the past several years, much of the AI conversation has centered on model capability: bigger models, better reasoning, larger context windows, higher benchmark scores. Those advances have been extraordinary. But as AI moves from experimentation to production, the question facing enterprise leaders has changed—it's no longer, "what can the model do?"—it's now, "Can we deliver that intelligence reliably, economically, and at scale?"

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