Agentic Harness Archaeology
Most of an agentic harness is fossilized workaround — dating the layers of RAG, tool-call parsers, DAG runners, and giant instruction files, and deciding what deserves to survive.
Engineering notes from av.codes.
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Most of an agentic harness is fossilized workaround — dating the layers of RAG, tool-call parsers, DAG runners, and giant instruction files, and deciding what deserves to survive.
The unglamorous ongoing labor of keeping a private local inference rig running after the romance of self-hosting has worn thin.
The Great Pyramid and a hyperscale datacenter are structurally identical bets — concentrated short-term cost justified across a longer horizon.
A detailed look at the timeline of local large language models.