The AI Harness: Beyond the Model

Learning Objective: By completing this Nano Learning course, participants will be able to:

• Identify the seven infrastructure layers — context management, memory, tool integration, knowledge retrieval, safety/compliance, agent scaffolding, and semantic caching — that surround a frontier LLM in commercial AI platforms
• Evaluate the true switching cost of moving from a major AI provider to a self-hosted or open-source alternative