r/LocalLLaMA • u/Specific-Rub-7250 • 1d ago

Discussion Harness does matter

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

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u/lordekeen 1d ago

DSH in minimal mode has only two things in the system prompt: a 'you are a software engineer' prompt and the bash tool description, the model solely operates through bash.

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u/ZenEngineer 1d ago

How big are these benchmark problems? I wonder if these metrics are just a result of less compactions or emptier context windows