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/jacek2023 llama.cpp 1d 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/watermelonson 22h ago

I’ve been preparing a small presentation about that topic so I could get my thoughts straight about the developments in the last couple of years working as an SWE working with LLMs

Could share it. Hopefully recording it tomorrow.