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Re: DeepSeek Harness developer preview

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Post by m_ke »

syntaxing wrote: post #5

Is there a reason why so many of these agent harness are written in node.js?

1. it's built for async 2. runs everywhere 3. interpreted, making it fast to iterate on 4. decent performance 5. most popular language, llms are decent at writing it

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Post by dsrtslnd23 »

pyrophane wrote: post #10

I'm curious what peolle are finding with first party vs 3red party harnesses for coding. Do the first party harnesses really have an advantage when paired with the maker's model?

I hear that often but to me it does not feel like it. I built my own framework around pi.dev harness and run all kind of different LLMs with it. Sometimes also use the vendor harnesses and they don't feel better adapted.

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Post by Zambyte »

syntaxing wrote: post #5

Is there a reason why so many of these agent harness are written in node.js?

I'm not sure why specifically Javascript instead of something like Python or other options, but using an interpreted environment minimizes the friction for implementing extension systems, which are an important feature in AI harnesses.

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Post by rco8786 »

But like, what is it? Odd that this reached #1 on HN. The README is pretty bare outside of installation instructions and a link to "Cordis", which is "A Meta-Framework of Spatiotemporal Composability." and "under active development. The API is not yet stable and may change without notice.".

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Post by altmanaltman »

m_ke wrote: post #11
syntaxing wrote: post #5

Is there a reason why so many of these agent harness are written in node.js?

1. it's built for async 2. runs everywhere 3. interpreted, making it fast to iterate on 4. decent performance 5. most popular language, llms are decent at writing it

aren't 3 and 4 a tradeoff though? Yes you have 3 but "decent performance" cannot be an extaled value as compared to "runs everywhere". If its used as a counter balance to 3 then it shouldn't be its own unique point basically saying 4 is true despite 3 in this case.
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