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Towards a Harness That Can Do Anything
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A good harness for LLMs should be intuitive for the agent, transparent for self-development and auditing, and facilitate seamless interaction beyond the chat pane. Recent considerations focus on enhancing LLM capabilities and user experience.
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- Praise: Deterministic workflows are the key to success with long-running tasks, ensuring agents stay within their failure modes and perform reliably.
- Praise: The emphasis on behavioral-driven development (BDD) is spot on; it helps define clear expectations that guide AI tools to achieve correct behavior.
- Praise: Using a structured framework for agentic coding allows for better management of complex processes, which is crucial as we integrate AI more deeply into development.
- Concern: The term 'harness' feels overly buzzwordy and lacks clear definition; it raises skepticism about whether we're just riding a hype wave.
- Concern: There's a concern that the idea of a 'generic' harness might be misguided, as domain-specific solutions are already proving to be more effective.
- Concern: Comments about the vague promise of doing 'anything' with AI evoke skepticism, suggesting that we should focus on mastering specific tasks instead.