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samtheprogramtoday at 5:40 PM1 replyview on HN

Probably the same reason as oh-my-zsh, you don't need 90% of it. Further compounding the problem in an agent harness is that you are polluting the context window by throwing the kitchen sink at it.


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marwatktoday at 6:08 PM

I've been experimenting with omp because:

- it allows different models within one session via roles (I only have API, so pay per token)

- it's much more likely (ime) to use the LSP over grep for determining how code fits together

But I agree a 20k+ starting context is way overkill.

I find it's very hard to get information on harnesses people are using. I have to stay model agnostic so I avoid claude, codex, cursor, etc. I've used and tried opencode, which worked well, but obviously lacks the above features.

Does anyone have a resource for following what people are actually being productive with? With so much vibe going on it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.