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by frenchie4111 11 days ago
While I agree it is predominantly text getting sent over the wire, it would be pretty complex to implement harness on just a text stream without the websocket abstraction (I thought about it for a while). If you want to just SSH and run an agent you can, but the point of harness is that it has better ergonomics than a bare terminal can provide
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cyanydeez 11 days ago
I understand; from a pratical standpoint, installing it on all servers I want to manage is just out of question.

Having a central AI with all it's trimmings is more reliable then custom servers everywhere.

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frenchie4111 11 days ago
Agreed - my intention is definitely not "harness on every server" and more "make it easy for the backend half of harness to run on your personal dev box". This just comes from my experience at BigTechCorp where all of the engineers (myself included) used beefy EC2 instances for development (so tests ran fast, lol) and VSCode remote to actually edit files
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cyanydeez 11 days ago
I've just installed a raspbery pi zero w/limited memory, and having to constantly correct the local model because it can't ssh correctly is annoying; but I can't install any kind of harness on it.

Being able to just keep a single instance and only worry about transport protocols would be a bonus.

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