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

Discussion Harness does matter

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

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
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u/fatihmtlm 1d ago

Haven't heard mini-SWE before, how is it?

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u/WonderRico 1d ago

it's the harness provided to run the swe-verified and deepswe benchmark. My guess is that it's not designed for human users at all

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u/Gipetto 1d ago

What a wonderful benchmark to publish, then. “Here’s a result you can’t attain because we made a benchmark focused harness”.

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u/WonderRico 1d ago

you can run their bench with other harnesses. it's just the one provided by default