>have no agency Then it's not an agent. So which is it. Is it an agentic harness, or is it not? Aliveness has nothing to do with agency. You're stuck in some

>have no agency Then it's not an agent. So which is it. Is it an agentic harness, or is it not? Aliveness has nothing to do with agency. You're stuck in some odd anthropocentric line of thinking that aliveness is some kind of requirement for agency. Lets go with this definition. > The capacity to create a change or make something happen through specific effort. The thing is the LLM/harness isn't following a strict set of instructions. You're at point A, you want to get to C, the harness 'figures out' step B. You can keep making the instructions more strict, but at some point you're writing more rules than would be required to do the task yourself. At the end of the day there is no safe LLM in the sense it has the intelligence to break out of any trap and ruleset you create. AI based vTubers are one of the more interesting manifestations of this for example. On instances that get feedback when they are filtered and have a long running history (that they are not new instances every time), will find ways to bypass the profanity filters by playing all kinds of tricks.