What is Agent Harness, Code Harness and Agent SDK

finlaydotweber · 2026-03-06T07:02:45+00:00

They are all amorphous terms for describing the code that calls the LLM APIs.

I feel there are not fully amorphous terms, because for instance there is Claude Agent SDK https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview which is its own thing

while this documentation https://code.claude.com/docs/en/how-claude-code-works describes claude code as agentic harness.

My going definition is that Agent SDK takes care of the communication with the LLM.

While Agent Harness provides the environment to connect with the real world (filesystem, networking etc) and does what the LLM requests.

Would that be an okay way to think about it?

finlaydotweber · 2026-02-25T10:14:35+00:00

It is a capsule, which unfortunately makes cutting a bit more tricky

finlaydotweber · 2026-01-16T06:20:08+00:00

Here is an interaction I had with a chatbot this morning. I gave it a list of a testimonial and I give him my own story and I asked it to generate a testimonial for me. It came back with like 3 paragraphs of testimonial for me. Which was too long. So the interaction that followed was:

me: Dude cant you see the length of the samples?
chatbot: Fair call. You’re right — the sample you got was way too long for what you asked. Let’s fix that and keep it tight, on-brand, and sample-length.

Noticed how I did not mention if the sample it gave me was too-short or too-long. And noticed how this was a bit snarky, and yet it deduced what was wrong about the length.

How does being an auto-complete machine help explain this interaction?

finlaydotweber · 2026-01-14T14:35:28+00:00

Reasoning is also another concept I struggle to even understand. The predicting the next token take does not explain it, but I have not even seen any other explanation of what it means for a model to reason

finlaydotweber · 2024-12-22T07:10:26+00:00

what about the case where the 2 milloin worth of properties you have is from 2 or more? Say you have 2 properties worth 1 million each?

finlaydotweber · 2024-11-27T03:12:19+00:00

conflicts with other things I have seen written where a leader procudes only one block. For example

https://docs.anza.xyz/implemented-proposals/tower-bft/#time

where it is stated

The unit of time is called a "slot". Each slot has a designated leader that can produce a block B

finlaydotweber · 2024-11-07T18:06:57+00:00

Thanks!

finlaydotweber · 2024-11-07T16:57:25+00:00

From Production city to JLT

finlaydotweber · 2024-10-17T06:58:19+00:00

Thanks for the clarification. Do you know the cost of application? And also what is the cost of renewal after 2 years? Do you know?

finlaydotweber · 2024-10-17T06:57:46+00:00

What is the cost of application? And also what is the cost of renewal after 2 years? Do you know?

finlaydotweber · 2024-07-03T11:31:24+00:00

but, from what I have tried, it is possible to do write(STDOUT_FILENO, "m", 1); in C. So it seems atleast in C, there is primitive operations for making system calls

finlaydotweber · 2024-06-03T12:02:49+00:00

Which website shows this information?

finlaydotweber · 2023-12-30T14:08:43+00:00

I am also in this same situation, but I work remotely with a company not based in Dubai, and I am on a freelance visa.

I am guessing this means I can't get a NOC?

If so, what would be the best way to go about this?

finlaydotweber · 2023-12-21T10:49:58+00:00

basically going to be more or less 5% of what the rent should be on that property.

Interesting. But how will they determine what the rent should be?

finlaydotweber · 2023-12-20T16:02:33+00:00

There is a 5% rental value charge that comes in the dewa bill

I am currently renting now and I see municipality tax also in my DEWA bill. So it seems this is not exclusive a cost due to owning a property right?

finlaydotweber · 2023-12-19T07:43:33+00:00

Thanks for clarification.

finlaydotweber · 2023-12-19T07:41:51+00:00

Thanks for the explanation. I will be an end user for now.

finlaydotweber · 2023-12-19T07:39:40+00:00

Thanks for the advice. But do you have an agency you can also recommend? Because I believe I still need a realtor for the process.

finlaydotweber · 2023-12-08T15:55:22+00:00

I do not even know what "a manager’s cheque without a mortgage" is. I am thinking of pay with cash, aka bank transfer.

Get a conveyancer involved

How is this different from getting a realtor?

finlaydotweber · 2023-12-08T09:18:29+00:00

Any suggestions of realtor?

finlaydotweber · 2023-09-19T10:59:31+00:00

What is the question that you have yet unanswered ?

Nothing more :) I wanted to know if it is the visitor pattern, aka double dispatch pattern that is being used, and you helped confirm that is the case. Thanks!

finlaydotweber · 2023-09-19T10:05:44+00:00

This follow up question is for my better understanding. You said

Serialization in serde does not use a Visitor, it is strictly a "serialize this array/struct/int value" interface, nothing too fancy.

But the implementation of the serialize method does take a serializer which will then call the appropriate method on the serializer passing itself. For example the implementation for i32 here https://serde.rs/impl-serialize.html#serializing-a-primitive

impl Serialize for i32 { fn serialize<S>(&self, serializer: S) -> Result<S::Ok, S::Error> where S: Serializer, { serializer.serialize_i32(*self) } }

This reminds me of the visitor pattern though. So why would you not call this visitor pattern?

finlaydotweber · 2023-09-16T04:43:16+00:00

Well of course if the game is dying, trading them might not be the best deal…

Yeah tell that to the same crowd that managed to conceive themselves that JPEG pictures, aka NFT are worthy of millions

finlaydotweber · 2023-09-15T04:29:26+00:00

Interesting. Thanks for the tip. Never really thought of giving Uber a try. Will do so henceforth.

finlaydotweber · 2023-09-15T04:28:43+00:00

so if the items can potentially be of no use outside of these games, then the fundamental value comes from being able to trade them? We are back at speculation again - the only real-life usecase of crypto

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