Comment by nvader
16 hours ago
I'm also very excited by the different shapes for solving problems in this space. A little worried that the path dependence is ACTUALLY a bit warranted since "popular harness engineering is just claude-wrapping" is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy today.
I've heard many claims that because LLMs are tuned to specific harnesses, we should expect worse performance with novel architectures. That seems to make people reluctant to try to put effort into inventing them.
Author here.
I’m worried about the same (models tuned for specific harnesses).
We actually work around that by respecting the “contract”. For instance, our harness’ Bash signature is exactly the same as Claude’s. We do our sandboxing stuff and respond using the same format.
In the “eyes” of the model there’s no difference between what Claude does and what we do (even though the implementation is completely different).
We basically use Claude’s tools as API contract