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New comment by egonschiele in "Open source AI must win"

egonschiele — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:30:16 +0000

I have been working on this exact problem, and I suppose now is as good a time as any to talk about it.

To make any agent "good", there are two components: the model and the harness. Very few companies can train models, but anyone can build a harness. How much does the harness matter? Can I build a harness that's good enough that I can use open source models with opus level performance? That's the question I've been trying to answer by building better harnesses. None of the existing frameworks have the functionality I need to build a good harness. The features I need are language-level... and so I started building a language called Agency[0].

It's been six months and its going well. Some of the things Agency can do are wild:

- It can pause and serialize execution at any point, making HITL easy

- It has some neat safety capabilities such as handlers[1] and PFA[2]

- You can bundle up any agent as an HTTP or MCP server[3]

- I'm now working on a built-in optimizer to optimize agents (think DSPy).

Obviously, it's a huge undertaking, but having worked with the Agency for six months, I can't imagine going back to another framework. It makes things so easy. I'm working on its built-in agent now [4]. My goal it to get it to be as good as Claude Code, but using open source models. It's still early days, lots of rough edges, but if this sort of thing interests you, I'd love to have a few more people test it out.

[0] https://agency-lang.com

[1] https://agency-lang.com/guide/handlers.html

[2] https://agency-lang.com/guide/partial-application.html

[3] https://agency-lang.com/cli/serve.html

[4] https://github.com/egonSchiele/agency-lang/blob/main/package...

New comment by egonschiele in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

egonschiele — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:13:42 +0000

To be clear, they've been saying that all AI needs to take a break. I don't think this single action is going to do much.

New comment by egonschiele in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

egonschiele — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:05:15 +0000

It's important to note that thousands of people are giving their time every day for climate change work, doing thankless jobs for very little pay. The fact that the US chose a corrupt man over these people, the fact that millions of people sat out the vote, is a real slap in the face of the people who try to fight this, day after day after day. And many young people seem to have just given up. It's your future, others are fighting for it, join them.

New comment by egonschiele in "Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness"

egonschiele — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:55:41 +0000

I'm all for people writing their own coding agent harnesses... is there anything different about this one? Its not clear why I'd choose this over pi, opencode, or other existing options

New comment by egonschiele in "Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents"

egonschiele — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:30:12 +0000

As other comments have said, it would be great to add what this does that existing solutions can't. I see the project has been active since Feb, and has < 150 commits. I'd assume this is still pretty immature. So why use this? I think more explanation is needed.

New comment by egonschiele in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

egonschiele — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:34:27 +0000

Why don't all these distro maintainers add their own back doors, and mine crypto off our machines without our knowledge? Surely, there is some legal fine print they can add that would let them do that. There is very little incentive for them to maintain these systems, given how thankless and underpaid the work is.

New comment by egonschiele in "Zed is 1.0"

egonschiele — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:20:24 +0000

Congrats to the Zed team! Great to see people continuing to work on important tooling like editors these days.

New comment by egonschiele in "Is my blue your blue?"

egonschiele — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:46:37 +0000

Warm blue vs cool blue is another interesting social question: https://www.ducktyped.org/p/a-colorful-controversy

New comment by egonschiele in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

egonschiele — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:15:32 +0000

Ah okay, so it's a case of "it's legal so it's fine", and impact or principles don't come into it.

New comment by egonschiele in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

egonschiele — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:00:49 +0000

Do you not think that that would have a negative impact on the world? or do you not care, or is this "the world is going to hell so I may as well get mine"?

New comment by egonschiele in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

egonschiele — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:46:19 +0000

I actually don't think Getting Killed the album is well mixed, what turned me on to Geese was their From The Basement performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIol9hig2G4 the music and the mixing are incredible. I've followed From The Basement for a while, ever since their collaboration with Radiohead. So maybe this was a psyop, but the music is genuinely really good.

New comment by egonschiele in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

egonschiele — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:09:35 +0000

I've been thinking about this a lot recently, and I don't know if it is possible to stop. I've been thinking the most impactful thing would be to create open-source tools to make it easier to build agents on top of open-source models. We have a few open-source models now, maybe not as good as Gemini, but if the agent were sufficiently good, could that compensate?

I think that would democratize some of the power. Then again, I haven't been super impressed with humanity lately and wonder if that sort of democratization of power would actually be a good thing. Over the last few years, I've come to realize that a lot of people want to watch the world burn, way more than I had imagined. It is much easier to destroy than to build. If we make it easier for people to build agents, is that a net positive overall?

New comment by egonschiele in "Mario and Earendil"

egonschiele — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:36:13 +0000

Armin - creator of Flask https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Ronacher

Mario - creator of Pi https://pi.dev

New comment by egonschiele in "Mario and Earendil"

egonschiele — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:35:21 +0000

Armin is pretty well-known in the tech space. He has contributed a ton to open source and generally seems like a fairly principled person. I think this may be the first case where you turn out to be wrong :)

New comment by egonschiele in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

egonschiele — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:37:06 +0000

Just wanted to say what an incredible person you are! Catch and Kill and the related reporting was awesome too!

New comment by egonschiele in "Ohm's Peg-to-WASM Compiler"

egonschiele — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:58:11 +0000

I have been very curious to try Ohm. I'm currently using a hand-rolled parser combinator library, but Ohm looks slick. The online editor is nice too https://ohmjs.org/editor/

New comment by egonschiele in "AI isn't killing jobs, it's 'unbundling' them into lower-paid chunks"

egonschiele — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:59:51 +0000

> The human is left doing whatever the machine can't, often a narrower slice of the original role

I haven't seen anyone talk about AI and its impact on flow yet. It's pretty easy for me to achieve a flow state while coding without AI, but with AI, I'm not so sure. I spend my time managing multiple Claude instances as they work on different tasks, and there's no time to go really deep into anything.

Flow was such a productivity boost for me. Even though Claude definitely helps me finish tasks quicker, I've started wondering how much quicker it actually is, vs getting into flow.

I Pruned Layers from a 30B Code Model and It Got 123% Better at Benchmarks

egonschiele — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:02:09 +0000

Article URL: https://gabeortiz.net/posts/2026-3-21-llm-layer-surgery/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492968

Points: 3

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New comment by egonschiele in "Coding My Handwriting"

egonschiele — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:14:04 +0000

This is very cool. Based on the title, I thought this would end with an example of using this font for code. I'd still be interested in seeing an example of that.

New comment by egonschiele in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

egonschiele — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:36:31 +0000

Good idea, but as several comments here suggest, the time when this sort of thing could be taken as satire is gone. I promise you there are multiple people here thinking that this is a good idea. I predict that within a year we will see a service that does exactly this.