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Re: Simple Meta-Harness on Islo.dev

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Post by zozo123-IB » Tue, May 05, 2026, 5:31 PM UTC

gobdovan wrote: post #20

I distilled the Meta-Harness workflow in a skill [0]. Unlike the original Islo POC, which demonstrates an automated runtime loop converging from trace-rich evaluations [1], my test only evaluates whether the distilled skill improves a lead agent's prompt-repair discipline and audit trail [2]. It took a few tries to figure out what to test in the first place, since it is not obvious what the workflow should improve (p…

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Re: Simple Meta-Harness on Islo.dev

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Post by jagged-chisel » Wed, May 06, 2026, 12:56 AM UTC

bglazer wrote: post #19

love2read wrote: post #2

I have no idea what this does or is. I really wish they could have given a better description of why this is useful.

Yeah I have been reading a lot of posts like this lately. Technical blog post clearly written by an LLM summarizing something vibe-coded. They always start using project-specific jargon right away and they never give you enough context or backstory to understand why this thing exists. It's seems very clearly to be a symptom of someone pointing an LLM at a repo and telling it "write a github page for this project". It…

I have this problem with other people all the time. They can’t fathom why someone else wouldn’t have their exact context at any given moment. They say some non-sequitur and are immediately incredulous that I’m asking wtf they’re talking about.

Re: Simple Meta-Harness on Islo.dev

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Post by steffs » Wed, May 06, 2026, 2:08 PM UTC

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Re: Simple Meta-Harness on Islo.dev

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Post by zozo123-IB » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:48 PM UTC

mccoyb wrote: post #10

It has now become fashionable to dress oneself in the garb of science to sell dev environments ... for agents. It has now become fashionable to claim much, and furnish little. It has now become fashionable to fail to understand or state the core of your proposal in as few words as possible: instead of "genetic algorithm applied to the space of harnesses, parallelized by our infrastructure" we get "Three swaps. Same o…

Touche. Fair. It's the simplest demo of LLM-proposed search over agent system prompts, conditioned on full execution traces to demo that islo.dev just makes the snapshot/fork/log loop cheap enough to run...