Harness Engineering Notes From Shipping Real Agents

Model-task fit matters enough that harness design becomes a first-class engineering discipline

harness (library) building is hard! some notes from doing Harness Engineering since last year on our libraries + having a blast working with teams shipping real agents to prod: 1. Model-Harness-Task fit. I can’t stress this enough. The
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