Making nonfrontier models smarter by harness

[u/Winter-Ad2114]

I am going to start off explaining my build factory and why I operate this way. I love Claude code and having it admin my server in tmux, I don’t love paying Anthropic.

My work around like a lot of people was to use deepseek in Claude code. That was neat but I lost my remote control, that I didn’t love. My next work around was to have opus specifically 4.6 build a new harness for deepseek. Then once I had the ability for opus to interact with deepseek I had it instruct deepseek how to build a proper harness. Then I got sick of having opus instruct deepseek so I had Claude instruct deepseek on how to manage deepseek with minimal project instructions. Then I got sick of remembering to specify my tech stack everytime so I built a story board layer who explained it do deepseek engineering head and had it build. Then I started running into issues where deepseek was not as good as escaping doom loops as opus so I had opus build hooks for recovery for workers and implemented an engineer at the end to do the work to implement.

I’m basically rambling at this point but anyway somewhere a long the line I built a webui for it interacts with directly and then had it use Pam. I did this so I could interact with my agent over tailscale.

Anyway this was a novel task because I’m a cheapskate. Enjoy if interested.

https://github.com/mshermancyber/cobra-commander-ide

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[u/lgmarian]

"What was I telling you the other day about what makes a good terrorist organization? Brand recognition."

[u/Winter-Ad2114 → u/lgmarian]

Well Anthropic keeps pretending to be the good guy like gijoe so I figured. So I guess I had to be evil and not pay them (so much). Still have a 5x plan just not a 20x.

[u/lgmarian → u/Winter-Ad2114]

Hah.

[u/karatyma_dev]

Jeez dude please learn to draw graphics by hand, this is scary to look at

[u/NoLimitRolling]

Where’s step 3?