Apple Paper: SOTA Harnesses Offer No Edge Over Minimal Single-Session Coding Agent
himanshustwts · x · 2026-10-09
An interesting new Apple paper argues that, under an equal time budget and with the same frontier LLM backbone, open-source SOTA agent harnesses provide no advantages over a single-session coding agent with a minimal harness — a direct challenge to the industry trend of stacking complex orchestration frameworks.
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