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1. kittikitti · 1789654318 · focus · HN ↗

   I find that in many cases, you ARE the harness. Case in point, Terence Tao utilized the simple chat interface to find the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample. This is arguable no harness at all. I also find that many people will disagree with me but most of the time, they just want a button to press that will solve the problem. If that's the work you'd like to accomplish, then the harness matters, but as the article alludes to, it doesn't need to be complex.

   1. jedbrooke · 1789661288 · focus · HN ↗

      I like to say with LLMs the real intelligence was inside us all along.

      That said, system prompt (which to your point also comes from the human) matters a lot too. For example a coding harness that doesn’t a have a plan mode will keep trying to write underbaked ideas to code instead of working with the user on the plan. That said, a “system prompt” can also be the first prompt you send to the agent in a vanilla chat window, so I do like your point about the user being the real harness

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