The Never Ending Lore of Harness | Vivek Trivedy (Product Lead, Langchain)

from GroundZero AI Talks · host Himanshu Dubey

In this episode, Viv joins us on Ground Zero. He leads open source agents and harnesses at LangChain. In this conversation, we go deep into what a harness actually is, Deepagents, Context rot, Why agents should be more opinionated, Harness as a Service, File System, how different frontier models behave in agent workloads, Meta Harness, RL Envs and beyond that.TIMESTAMPS00:00:00 - Intro00:03:30 - PhD at Temple & First Startup in Vision00:12:42 - Bio Internship at Lockheed Martin & Mike Mill Lore00:16:18 - Building at LangChain, DeepAgents & R&D in Open Source00:25:09 - Harness Design, Filesystems & Foundational Harness Primitives00:42:25 - Trajectories for Continual Learning, Where Not to Use RL, Skills & Context Rot00:56:30 - Harness Engineering: OpenClaw, Hermes, Custom Harnesses & Quick Fire01:12:15 - Meta-Harnesses, Self-Improvement Loops, Simulation-as-a-Service & RL Environments01:28:30 - Advice to Anyone 20 / Starting Out in College

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