The value of Claude Code the harness isn't that great. There's a lot of other good harnesses out there.

chandureddyvari 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What’s your favourite harness? Is there any benchmarks for harness like LLMs have for swe verified?

	▲	wolttam 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You can check my profile for which one I like most :) I do think there have been efforts to benchmark different harnesses. Personally I'm not going to choose one harness or another based on +/- a few percentage points in a benchmark. I'm going to use one the one that I find the most ergonomic, that isn't too bloated, etc. The models are the primary lever, not the harness.

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rane an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I thought so, and then I tried Opencode and Codex and started to appreciate Claude Code a lot more. They've actually done great work with the small details.

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koolba 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Good or better? Curious which would be in either bucket.

	▲	wolttam 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Probably a matter of taste. I prefer the harness I wrote, I don't want to go near Anthropic's bloated mess of a harness with a 10-meter pole.

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crooked-v an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

And it gets dragged down by Anthropic actively injecting unhelpful things into prompts without telling users about them (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/58262).