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what is a harness? The comments below are mixing IDE/ADE but other suggestions are purely terminal things and I don't get what their value is over just a terminal. Is a harness like a loop where it's just a vague thing that everyone nods about but everyone is nodding at something different?
It’s a new buzzword where everyone says it but means entirely different things. You can use it to sound smart whenever there’s a conversation about how you’re not extracting value from your coding agent and also when you are extracting really good value. Very flexible term!
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There's a chance that the real reason why they want to ban Chinese models is that they are so good at fixing bugs and preventing exploits that intelligence agencies have been using for espionage and surveillance for a long time.
Anyone who knows anything realises banning things is a) impossible and b) your enemies will use them anyway, you are just depriving your own side of the advantages.
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There's a chance that the real reason why they want to ban Chinese models is that they are so good at fixing bugs and preventing exploits that intelligence agencies have been using for espionage and surveillance for a long time.
How does banning the models in the US prevent this?
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Palantir already offers a "turnkey AI datacenter", i.e. a rack with "NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra systems with eight NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs and NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ Ethernet networking for AI training and inference". It is said that it comes with all hardware and software required to run inference or training with an open weights LLM. The existence of this product, which competes with cloud-based offerings like those of…
I'm not sure a data center run by ... Palantir of all organizations is what people have in mind when they worry about data sovereignty.
It comes in a full sized shipping container and costs around $10M but money has stopped being connected to reality now anyway with all the AI company valuations being floated around, so who cares about a few million here or there.
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They've always been good enough for double digit less money. Always. Anyone thinking "Chinese models fake models built using dirty distillation scam" don't know what they're talking about. Distillation is just forcing the model to use an exam prep workbook for training instead of generic publicly available textbooks. The models themselves has to be smart enough for that to work. It's the exact same thing as Asian tig…
To carry on this analogy - do test prep workbooks make you meaningfully more competent in general, or is it benchmaxing? (Versus studying textbooks for a similar time, of course.)
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I seriously need to start considering the scenario in which this leads to next global financial crisis.
These crises are manufactured by the central banks. Compare and contrast how the dot-com bust did _not_ lead to global financial crises. Nor did Black Monday, nor the recent string of bank failures in the US. ('Manufactured' above means that central banks are responsible. I make no judgement on intent here. Around 2008 it was incompetence by the Fed and ECB as far as I can tell. The Fed started paying interest on exc…
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The harness is the agent. LLM's can be asked to output things in JSON for example. The LLM then literally asks for things like "execute this cmd" or search/replace this string. The LLM outputs text, but in a deterministic format that can be parsed. The harness calls the LLM, exposes tools, executes tools the LLM asks for, gates tool use based on security controls. It's the runtime that the agent uses to do work.
Are the LLM and agent the same thing? Why different nouns ?