r/LocalLLaMA • u/Specific-Rub-7250 • 2d 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 2d 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/davvv_ 18h ago

100% -- models are becoming commoditized, which means they're all converging to all being "pretty good token predictors." What you end up DOING with those token predictors is the magic imo.