@NoahZiems: The term "harness" has I think crossed a line and now is sort of inseparable from "variation of a coding agent with a c…
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A tweet discusses how the term 'harness' has become inseparable from coding agents and suggests 'strong harness' as a new term for stronger controls on language models.
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The term “harness” has I think crossed a line and now is sort of inseparable from “variation of a coding agent with a chatbox”
We need a new term to describe things that put stronger controls on the language models. Maybe “strong harness”?
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