ByteDance Seed's HarnessDev: LLM-Built Agent Harnesses Lag Human-Engineered Ones
_akhaliq · x · 2026-09-04
ByteDance Seed introduces HarnessDev, a benchmark that shifts agent evaluation from task outputs to the runnable infrastructure itself: can LLMs build and evolve their own agent harnesses?
Across six creator LLMs and five benchmarks, generated harnesses lag human-engineered ones on code and search — and evolution gains prove unstable.
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