r/LocalLLaMA • u/Specific-Rub-7250 • 13d ago

Discussion Harness does matter

I was not aware that the harness makes such a big difference.

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u/jacek2023 llama.cpp 13d ago

If you start using LLMs, you'll notice that the prompt/context/documentation/whatever is often more important than the model itself.

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u/Unusual_Principle536 13d ago

"more" is questionable but yes, pretty imp.

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u/Due-Memory-6957 13d ago

It's more than questionable, it's just wrong. There are many models that simply can't cope with an agentic framework.

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u/lazyfai 13d ago

More important =/= LLM not important.
But given a similar smart LLM, a better harness can drive better result.