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Wdym harness? Its a coding agent

• furryrain 8mo ago
  I think the thesis of Pi is that there isn't much special about agents. Model + prompt + function calls. There are many such wrappers, and they differ largely on UI deployment/integration. Harness feels like a decent term, though "coding harness" feels a bit vague.
  • baby 8mo ago
    We all call that a coding agent already
    • tempaccount81 8mo ago
      [dead]
    • furryrain 8mo ago
      Yes, and sometimes new terms are introduced. This is expected in a new field.
    • rytill 8mo ago
      When I hear "coding agent", I think of both the harness and the LLM as a pair. Like, Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code is a coding agent, or Gemini 3 Pro and Pi is a coding agent. "Harness" is a way to reference the coding agent minus the "LLM" part. If an agent is an LLM in a loop with tool calls, there are two components: 1) the LLM. 2) The loop with tool calls. That second part could be called the harness.