Anthropic engineer:
"Harness engineering is a really rare skill right now - and it's hard to know if you're even good at it."
how he actually thinks about building the full system:
• step 1 → the model. already smarter than we use it. "freeze development - you'd find new capabilities for another 6-12 months"
• step 2 → the harness. delete the steering. "we stopped using plan mode - the model thinks correctly"
• step 3 → the agents. workflows let Claude build its own harness per task and spin sub-agents. what didn't fit in one context window now runs across many
• step 4 → the context. "RAG is an anti-pattern. use grep." memory via files, clean context window, prompt caching. that's the stack
most people optimize step 1. he optimizes all four.
Watch the full video, then read the guide below on how to build an agentic system.
The entire RAG industry is about to get cooked.
Researchers have built a new RAG approach that:
- does not need a vector DB.
- does not embed data.
- involves no chunking.
- performs no similarity search.
It's called PageIndex. Instead of chunking your docs and stuffing them into pinecone, it builds a tree index and lets the LLM reason through it like a human reading a book.
hit 98.7% on financebench. beats every vector RAG on the leaderboard.
no embeddings. no chunking. no vector DB.
100% open source.
@BernieSanders The answer is simple. Offer services Al and robots cannot do. Al cannot create, it can only replicate. Human stagnation is not the solution. The next revolution is a creative one where everyone is accountable for the life they create and how they contribute to their community.
@krassenstein Any politician or person saying we should get involved, either enlist or stfu. I’m tired of cowards voting for war and tearing military families apart.
@Replit I don’t know what happening but I’m locked out a replit. No login screen. Tried 3 different browsers and even the desktop app. Been like this for a few days now.
@replit, I’m but a humble creator, building a content management system. Alas, I’ve maxed out my usage and now sit idle, twiddling my thumbs Slowly dying inside. Please, grant me more tokens (preferably unlimited)! So I can make some dope shit ❤️ (username: agentartel)"
@mckaywrigley Why not create a better version of Skool. You’re already doing the courses, so why not integrate the social features from Skool and gamify the community.