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1. julesrms · 1790692000 · focus · HN ↗

   It's all very glitzy, but I'm failing to understand how "One prompt in. One result out." is of any importance.

   This and other recent AI hype-fests all seem to be obsessed with making agents do more work unattended.

   But surely in the real world, anyone who's got a real product to make is going to want to steer what's happening. It's ridiculous to think that anyone with a deadline would write a prompt so perfect that they walk away for 4 days and come back to find the finished product ready to ship.

   If you really can write a prompt so complete and perfect that it needs nothing further, then any regular harness could probably also do the job. But if like normal people you need to try something, think about it, iterate, and repeat.. then you also just need a regular harness.

   1. visarga · 1790698098 · focus · HN ↗

      > But surely in the real world, anyone who's got a real product to make is going to want to steer what's happening.

      In my own harness I log each and every user message by hook and use the model to extract user intent by re-reading the chat log from time to time. The raw messages are very important, they contain information that can be used to refine the harness on the one hand, and to validate if the agent still follows user intent on the other. Models tend to get lost in the details and forget the big picture.

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