I'm sorry, what is a harness, compared to a complete Web LLm "chat" like Mistral Vibe ?

SyneRyder an hour ago | parent | next [-]

If you're using Mistral Vibe installed on your computer, that is a harness. Vibe is one of many AI harnesses.

In general, a harness is something that lets your AI use tools on your computer and lets it work independently while you walk away. (Very simplified definition, not all harnesses are that automated.)

It's a long time since I tried Vibe, but when I did it was one of the worst. Back then it had broken support for MCP or computer use and other tools people now regard as near essential in AI. Hopefully Vibe is better now. Sadly Mistral are a long way behind.

	▲	maelito 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Mistral Vibe lets you use GLM-5.3 by default now. So it's a very capable model, for a cheap monthly fee. The Web version is excellent : tried yesterday on a simple search, results were way more informative than ChatGPT. But yes, it's sad that they don't release models anymore. Thanks for the definition !

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233mhz 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The whole thing around the model that handles system prompt, skills, agents, cache, etc. For example codex, claude code, pi, oh-my-pi, ...