Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement

Discussion (8 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

tosh•12 minutes ago

one form of very effective self-improvement that coding agents do all the time:

install or build stuff that they can then use

it changes the environment instead of the agent/harness but in a sense how separate is the agent from its environment and why do we apply this distinction re self-improvement?

animals and humans do the same thing and are great at it, without 'self-improvement' with emphasis on the 'self'

Kinrany•about 1 hour ago

The quest for Torment Nexus continues

Drakim•about 1 hour ago

If we don't create the Torment Nexus first, somebody else who is much less responsible is gonna create the Torment Nexus before us. It's outright irresponsible to not take the lead, we might have to even give up on all safety concerns to make sure we make it to Torment Nexus IPO first.

manojbajaj95•about 2 hours ago

I've been working with self improvement harness a little bit and one thing i've come to conclusion is harness task fit. The learning can be significantly improved if we understand the behaviour of task and how it should be learned. I'm pretty sure a general solution will definitely exist which will do fine, but we are yet to see one.

djsavvy•31 minutes ago

Agree with the sibling comment that an example would be useful. I'm also curious what kinds of tasks you have in mind. Theoretically almost every knowledge work task boils down to the file editing that agent harnesses already are built around (which probably explains the second half of your comment).

epolanski•about 1 hour ago

I haven't understood a bit.

Can you make an example?

amelius•about 2 hours ago

They say engineering but it's more a soft science.

HPsquared•about 1 hour ago

It's engineering management I suppose.

Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement

⚡ Community Insights

Discussion (8 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews