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EDUCATION · FIELD GUIDE

The model is the engine. The harness is the car.

Every AI coding agent on the market is the same handful of frontier models wrapped in different scaffolding. This deck covers what that scaffolding does, the three interfaces the market has built it into, and why the wrapper now matters more than the engine inside it.

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interface tiers on the market: CLI, IDE, and cloud. One loop underneath all of them.
Current as of August 30, 2026