alt Hacker NewsBecause there is literally nothing special about coding hardnesses. The models are doing all the lifting. It just user experience that separates them.
A coding hardness with just bash outperforms Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, Pi ect. The added features are just user experience features.
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Supermancho • yesterday at 10:26 PM
If harnesses are basically doing nothing, why would these metrics vary so widely?
https://www.endorlabs.com/research/ai-code-security-benchmar...
There's a lot of ways to configure agents and any implicit configuration to harnesses may have a non-trivial effect.
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A harness(notice the lack of a 'd') is a strap system to gain control over something.
Like the thing people attach a dog lead to so that their kids won't just go kamikaze into a car.
Coding harnesses are named by analogy to that.
They are not hard.