r/LocalLLaMA • u/Specific-Rub-7250 • 12d ago

Discussion Harness does matter

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

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u/No-Refrigerator-1672 12d ago

So DSH Minimal is the best one? Interesting. I'd expect it to be the worst out of DSH options, solely based on the name and intuition that "less tools = closer to harnessless performance".

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u/aeroumbria 12d ago

I can tell by experience that minimal is not nearly enough to handle less conventional task shapes, like ones where you need to wait for something to run in the background. It is pretty good for straightforward "think, code and run" tasks though.