Dev Abandons LLM Agent Harness After 883 Commits and 8 Months, Open-Sources the Wreckage
dancingwithlies · reddit · 2026-09-06
A developer spent 8 months and 883 commits building an LLM coding-agent harness where the system—not the model—owned planning, state, permissions, and verification, then abandoned it as an overengineered mess and open-sourced everything as ELAI-archive (Rust/Python/Tauri). Salvageable ideas include deterministic replayable runs, orchestrator/worker separation, context budgeting, sandboxing, and verifying agent claims with independently generated evidence.
More from coding & agent
- Indie dev's agent tracks 519 directories, 311 submitted for SEO backlinks — fekdaoui · 2026-10-23
- ScienceClaw Hackathon at MIT Media Lab to build decentralized AI agent collectives for science — ProfBuehlerMIT · 2026-10-23
- What should a native agent harness handle beyond tool calling? — Glittering812 · 2026-10-23
- Running ~100 DeepSeek v4.1 flash agents in parallel for under $20/month — zack_overflow · 2026-10-23
- MCP's stateless 2026-07-28 spec drops session-id — how are stateful tools adapting? — Stock-Pumpkin-8859 · 2026-10-23
- Dev adds local MCP server to Mac screenshot app so Claude designs from your references — Embarrassed-Ebb-740 · 2026-10-23