As you note, I wonder to what extent this is a harness issue? I've been experimenting with different harnesses for local models, and with (IIRC) Hermes and Qwe

As you note, I wonder to what extent this is a harness issue? I've been experimenting with different harnesses for local models, and with (IIRC) Hermes and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B I was amazed the lengths it went to (writing test code, opening it in a browser, screenshotting, analysing the screenshot, exploring multiple pages of an existing website again with screenshots/analysis) to solve a query I would have naively expected it to simply provide a coded solution to.