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.
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