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There’s a lot of harness talk this episode. I have been using a “harness” for about two months now and have learned a lot. It is very tedious learning this thing. The learning means dealing with stupid problems over and over and hoping the next tiny fix both addresses the problem and will persist until next time.
Thus, you can see a lot of value in the harnesses. They make up for the non-deterministic, sometimes just messes up nature of AI stuff.
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