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I spent 883 commits and 8 months building an LLM agent harness, overengineered it, and abandoned it - lol. (r/AI_Agents)
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Eight months and 883 commits into a harness that was meant to own planning, state, permissions, context, and verification so the model could be a replaceable worker, the author kept adding code graphs, RAG, crash recovery, model routing, and dashboards until more time went into adding systems than using them. Other harnesses got usable, this one got killed, and the author isn't recommending you download it.
In plain words
- A developer gave up on a tool for managing artificial intelligence coding work after eight months.
- The surrounding software was meant to plan the work and check the coding assistant's results.
- The developer kept adding features until building the tool took more effort than using it for actual work.
- The author says other developers should not download it expecting a finished coding tool.
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