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Ask HN: Harness for Learning – Thoughts?
3 points by arvindm1991 6 hours ago

I've been thinking about a harness for the learning use case. Current harness objective is to basically take a task and drive it to completion and minimize the need for user intervention. But if you want to learn anything, this is the almost the opposite goal. As I use agents, I'm seeing the task gets done, but I have no new capability or even intuition for solving similar tasks in the future.

If a student asks how to solve an equation, ideally a harness needs to have a state/memory of learner's past understanding, provide hints, use tools like problems/simulations/assessments and end the session with an evaluation to establish mastery.

All AI tutors I see are LLM+Prompts but I think a harness is really the right form factor for this problem. I want to see what others think and if there's an appetite for this beyond the K12 market where adoption would be super slow.