Very cool to see Pi build a durable agent harness too. I've been building in this space for quite some time myself [0][1] and it is a super interesting place of innovation. Less hype-y that on-your-machine coding agents, but all major players are building products in this space: LangChain Deep Agents, Vercel Eve, OpenAI Agents API, Anthropic Managed Agents, etc.
The main reasons are:
1) they are "durable", i.e. easier to make long-running in an unattended way, and easier to implement recovery, monitoring, etc
2) separating the harness from the compute brings safety and scaling benefits
It's quite an interesting place to hack on, because it's both a well understood problem but with so many wrinkles to it. I can't count how many earlier designs we chewed through before we ended up with the final one and I would not be surprised if we learn even more about it.
lukebuehler · · focus · HN ↗
The main reasons are:
1) they are "durable", i.e. easier to make long-running in an unattended way, and easier to implement recovery, monitoring, etc
2) separating the harness from the compute brings safety and scaling benefits
3) easier to make multi-player.
[0] <a href="https://github.com/smartcomputer-ai/lightspeed" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/smartcomputer-ai/lightspeed
[1] <a href="https://github.com/smartcomputer-ai/agent-os/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/smartcomputer-ai/agent-os/
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