[mccoyb]

The opposite is true.

There is barely any magic in the harness, the magic is in the model.

Try it: write your own harness with (bash, read, write, edit) ... it's trivial to get a 99% version of (pick your favorite harness) -- minus the bells and whistles.

The "magic of the harness" comes from the fun auxiliary orchestration stuff - hard engineering for sure! - but seriously, the model is the key item.

[ted537]

Yeah I agree with this. The only tool that really matters is file patching -- which you can check something like the opencode patch implementation, its fairly straightforward.

[butlike]

Not all percentages are weighted equally. That 1% is worth a lot more than the low-hanging 99% from your example

[mccoyb]

Is it? Look at pi, for instance.

It turns out that "most of the bell and whistles" could amount to instructing models how to use tools like tmux

[tvink]

This is the complete opposite of my experience.

[mccoyb]

Does your experience include writing your own agent? Send a link