alt Hacker News> One of this year’s AI buzzwords is “harness”—the system that surrounds an LLM to keep agents on the straight and narrow. It might just as well be barbed wire.
Quite painful to read. It might be a useful introduction to AI for people who live under rocks for the past three years, but it's really weird that it's posted on HN.
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I don't get what's so painful about that description. What would you write instead, specifically? The point is that the harness doesn't completely lock the agent down.
I also don't get what's "really weird" about the article showing up on HN. Should we be completely insulated from how tech topics and which stories show up in non-tech media?
And while writing this, the top story on HN is "Deepseek Harness" :)
It's not even a useful introduction. A harness does kinda the opposite. A harness is what makes an AI useful and dangerous. It is a neutral tool in the sense that it constructs and environment, but it is expanding what the algorithm can do.
It gives the algorithm the ability to do something beyond generating tokens.
Ironically, that looks like something Claude would write..
I'm sure their coverage on other topics is truthful and informative though and it's only the ones where you know a lot about the topic where it's all a bunch of bullshit
it's The Economist. What used to be a stellar publication is not any longer, since they are superfluously economical on both details and calories-required-to-comprehend an article.
That's a real fucking weird description. It's harness like a testing harness.
There is value in understanding what people outside of your own group of "insiders" learn about a topic, and how.