Stanford NLP course's best homework: build your own agent harness
stanfordnlp · x · 2026-11-12
Stanford NLP RTs a student takeaway from its AI engineering course: the best homework is building the agent harness yourself. The model is the engine, but the harness—tools, checks, retries—decides whether it ships; learning that early beats any framework tour.
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