Same model, 6 agent harnesses, 3x gap in end-to-end task completion time
zainhas · x · 2026-09-19
- Running the same 12 Terminal Bench 2.1 tasks (all solved/saturated) with the same model (Kimi K3) across 6 different agent harnesses produced a 3x difference in end-to-end completion time.
- The takeaway: harness engineering alone can dominate agent efficiency, so framework choice matters as much as model choice.
Related event: Harness choice alone swings agent speed 3x and cost 10x(2 posts)→
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