alt Hacker NewsEvery time I see an article about another agentic harness all I can think is "people still run other people's code?"
In all seriousness, the complaints here just feel like UI friction you can address yourself if you just build your own harness (e.g. snappy replies -> parallel threads and appending to common context).
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I’m on the same opinion. Why do I need to limit myself to something proprietary and in somebody else’s control when I can build and morph a tool to my needs.
The only reason I even look at frontier lab apps is for inspiration or shortcuts to my own implementation.
Using their apps feels like QA testing a trainwreck anyway with all of their UI/UX being an afterthought.
It is just rsync after all right?
These kinds of replies always astound me. Like, I have a better use for my attention and token limit than building and fiddling with my custom agent harness?
I think it's more cron jobs, RESTful-type wait and react methods, and a harness that is calibrated to being a good assistant.
i.e. It saw I had an optometry-type appointment this morning and supplied some questions I might want to ask or consider.
I do agree. We have a household assistant and it's not particularly different in functionality from the ones by mainstream labs. It's not a lot of work to build. Because we run on our own LLM base we can also do things like plumb our home cameras into it and so on.