But they are not designless. A great deal of their utility comes from the harness itself.

There's a recent benchmark indicating Hermes Agent and, I think, Qwen's harness are far and away the most effective.

Pi isn't bad but it doesn't seem as talented as Hermes. Nor does it currently array of self-learning/adaptive plugins seem as capable. That said, it's difficult to keep track of the SotA with pi; it grows like the node ecosystem in its first year.

This is a very good point, as one can argue that harnesses will evolve, learn to iterate, and will make custom and on-the-fly app creation comparable in quality to human designed apps, with just few user inputs. Effectively killing the market of pre-made apps.

But we are not there yet.