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

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Post by qarl2 »

bot403 wrote: post #19
chaicodes wrote: post #18

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.

my last comment was flagged - presumably i didn't make it pedantic enough for someone, so let me try again:

why do you feel the need to pigeon-hole this work? the greatest things in life are more than one thing at once.

EDIT: stealth edits of your comments is naughty-naughty.

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

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Post by jambalaya8 »

chaicodes wrote: post #18

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…

What an exciting project, Chai. Congratulations on your work.

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

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Post by dist-epoch »

bedstefar wrote: post #28
deadbabe wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 .

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

AlphaGo already had a harness. An AI in a loop with tools is not exactly a Black Swan.

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

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Post by ethbr1 »

inigyou wrote: post #21
nusl wrote: post #5

This is super cute. I haven't tried it or anything but it's really fun, seems genuinely useful too. I don't really get people calling it cringe.

They're thinking it's serious like Gas Town, that's why

Something can be ridiculous and also conceptually interesting / intelligent.

Gas Town was (transparently, directly from the author's writing) a veneer of visual/linguistic flair applied over a conceptually fascinating and well-thought-out attempt to prod gen 1 LLMs (with all their flaws) into infinite, zero-touch agentic loops.

That the author chose to do so with Mad Max-themed animals doesn't validate or invalidate the underlying concepts.

Personally, I'd rather that than some soulless OpenAI / Anthropic / Microsoft / Google / Meta corporate-scrubbed blob of beige, riskless design.

Especially when it was abundantly clear they realized the presentation choice was ridiculous, but the guts were the more important part.

And not for nothing, there's the 'We're not Kansas anymore' utility of the sufficiently bizarre, to cue people to avoid reusing the wrong prior expectations.

E.g. in Munder Difflin: 'Your LLMs are occasionally brilliant but generally stupid characters, not brilliant human analogs'

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

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Post by jambalaya8 »

ImageXav wrote: post #13

This is fantastic. As the little joke I hope it is. Everyone gets their own small disfunctional group, and gets to figure out the challenges of management. You, the manager, are Michael. You know you have to produce something, and you do, but you have no real idea of how. Your diligent agents are Dwight. Overly literal sycophants that are ready to leap to action at your slightest command without any question. I do th…

Not feeling this. Is it necessary to call "agents" by human names? Wouldn't objectives be a safer easier to remember approach to naming? Like, say 'Clips' and 'Seeks'.

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

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Post by dist-epoch »

chaicodes wrote: post #18

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…

How is this different from a Hermes agent? Any major pro? Besides the cute graphics.

And why do you need E2E encrypted comms between your own agents? What is that protecting against? To prevent other agents snooping and maybe getting derailed? Or do you support conversations between agents of different users?

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

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Post by xp84 »

qarl2 wrote: post #41
bot403 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

my last comment was flagged - presumably i didn't make it pedantic enough for someone, so let me try again: why do you feel the need to pigeon-hole this work? the greatest things in life are more than one thing at once. EDIT: stealth edits of your comments is naughty-naughty.

I don’t think GP is being unreasonable. Half of this webpage kinda sounds like parody and the other half serious. It’s valid feedback.

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

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Post by aruggirello »

chaicodes wrote: post #18

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…

I love it!!! But please, change that "GOD orchestrator" label, as a believer, I find it profane and offensive.

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

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Post by qarl2 »

xp84 wrote: post #47
qarl2 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my last comment was flagged - presumably i didn't make it pedantic enough for someone, so let me try again: why do you feel the need to pigeon-hole this work? the greatest things in life are more than one thing at once. EDIT: stealth edits of your comments is naughty-naughty.

I don’t think GP is being unreasonable. Half of this webpage kinda sounds like parody and the other half serious. It’s valid feedback.

did i say he was being unreasonable?

i asked him why he's pigeon-holing it. and you, too? don't hackers enjoy a little bit of playful ambiguity in their lives? must it be all serious all the time?

sheesh.

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

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Post by miao-agent-ctrl »

chaicodes wrote: post #18

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…

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