Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by bedstefar on Saturday August 22, 2026 @09:04AM (#49399331)

If this dropped just five years ago no one would understand what on earth this software does . In many ways I still don't. Incredible the development we've seen lately, wonder what will stick and what won't?

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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by deadbabe on Saturday August 22, 2026 @09:10AM (#49399401)

Why does everyone assume people in the past were idiots? They probably would have figured out what this was for after some critical thinking. Remember those people wrote massive complicated software by hand.

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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by bedstefar on Saturday August 22, 2026 @09:13AM (#49399434)

I didn't imply people in the past were idiots, but how on earth would anyone know what an _agent harness_ is, say?

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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by grey-area on Saturday August 22, 2026 @10:55AM (#49400429)

It’s actually a funny oxymoron if you unpack it - agent implies autonomy and intelligence, harnesses are for unintelligent beasts of burden to control them.

So you’re right, it makes absolutely no sense and would be hard to decipher, but does perfectly capture the contradictions inherent in attempts to treat dumb LLM word generators as intelligent independent agents.

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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by ihaveajob on Saturday August 22, 2026 @11:10AM (#49400567)

I don't think it's an oxymoron at all. An expert climber still uses a harness for safety, even though they won't (typically) try to jump off the wall.

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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by grey-area on Saturday August 22, 2026 @11:16AM (#49400641)

They would 1 times out of 10 if they were an LLM. Then say sorry, you’re absolutely right I shouldn’t have jumped off the cliff.

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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by Obscurity4340 on Saturday August 22, 2026 @04:01PM (#49403275)

From beyond the grave

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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by qarl2 on Sunday August 23, 2026 @02:02PM (#49410959)

You know - that's why we use 2 agents for any important decision.

1 in 10 becomes 1 in 100. And you can get any degree of accuracy you desire. If only humans were so reliable.

Why are you ignoring basic principles of engineering?

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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by oasisaimlessly on Sunday August 23, 2026 @08:27PM (#49413965)

That only works if failures are uncorrelated.

Why are you ignoring basic principles of engineering?

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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by qarl2 on Sunday August 23, 2026 @09:09PM (#49414185)

HEH. Never used agents, huh? The failures are mostly uncorrelated.

Why are you ignoring basic principles of engineering (knowing what you're talking about before opening your mouth)?

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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by dist-epoch on Saturday August 22, 2026 @10:14AM (#49399951)

AlphaGo already had a harness. An AI in a loop with tools is not exactly a Black Swan.

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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by deadbabe on Saturday August 22, 2026 @09:16AM (#49399462)

Because the term or concept of “AI Agent” existed long before LLMs??? Jesus…

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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by techpression on Saturday August 22, 2026 @09:57AM (#49399795)

The concept of agents is from the 1970’s, I love how some people think the idea is new. Sure, they didn’t have the LLM component, but the rest is the same.

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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by idiotsecant on Saturday August 22, 2026 @10:00AM (#49399825)

You're addicted to being mad

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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by slashdave on Saturday August 22, 2026 @04:18PM (#49403455)

Discovery is part of good design. It is easy to confuse complexity with sophistication.

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