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Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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This is a business--they have cloud and a sales team.

Eh, so what? It's whimsical and fun, and it's better if more things like this exist in the world than not.

They’re literally reusing IP from The Office. It’s clearly not parody, and they directly reference the show. It’s one thing for a joke project to do that. They are attempting to profit off someone else’s creative work. And not even in the roundabout way AI does.

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Hey guys, thanks for putting it here, I am Chaitanya I built Munder Difflin, I am here to answer all your questions(except nylonstrung). For people who haven't tried it: Munder Difflin is a local multi-agent harness that wraps around your existing claude code and codex subscriptions(we literally support almost all harnesses/coding agents). Simulations are deterministic, they do not consume tokens, infact most of the…

It's interesting but It was hard to tell from a quick read if this was a fun game with LLMs or a productivity tool. You could stand to make that more clear.

porque no los dos?

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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I didn't imply people in the past were idiots, but how on earth would anyone know what an _agent harness_ is, say?

Because the term or concept of “AI Agent” existed long before LLMs??? Jesus…

The concept of agents is from the 1970’s, I love how some people think the idea is new. Sure, they didn’t have the LLM component, but the rest is the same.

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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If this dropped just five years ago no one would understand what on earth this software does . In many ways I still don't. Incredible the development we've seen lately, wonder what will stick and what won't?

Why does everyone assume people in the past were idiots? They probably would have figured out what this was for after some critical thinking. Remember those people wrote massive complicated software by hand .

You're addicted to being mad

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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I've thought about something like this. When there is a lot of stuff happening at once, it's a mistake to try and communicate it all with text. Agents use tools, reference databases, reference the web, interact with other agents, and spend time processing the information. When you have several agents operating at the same time, communicating what they are doing using some kind of spatial map is a really smart idea. T…

It is nice to see folks experimenting widely with unique visual representations of agent orchestration, as a consequence of the bottom-up / individual-led development that's driving the industry (inasmuch as it exists yet).

There are folks young enough now that they've never known anything other than "the desktop" (or CLI) as a computing metaphor.

But there's no fundamental reason a metaphor has to be anything specific... it should be whatever is most widely comprehensible and efficient for the problem space.

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