A new review paper argues that the real bottleneck for autonomous AI agents isn't the language model itself but the software layer wrapped around it. Tools, memory, testing, and permission boundaries turn a stateless model into a working agent. Deepseek is already building a dedicated "Harness" team in Beijing with a core formula that confirms the thesis: model plus harness equals AI agent.
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