alt Hacker NewsDo more planning yourself, be smart about the context, break down tasks into smaller components, give it more guidance. You can't just lazily prompt it to complete large features autonomously and expect good results.
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amilios • today at 7:26 PM
But if the closed-source models can do this without the additional effort, that's a significant gap, no?
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eikenberry • today at 7:38 PM
+1 .. just wanted to reiterate that this is the answer. The open models work great if you just do a little more of the design/architectural work up front and organize your work appropriately.
a good harness is supposed to do what you are describing. sonnet on pi.dev is pretty terrible but fast. Claude Code has ridiculous amounts of prompt engineering at system prompt level and sub session spawing combined with low temperature, to provide the predictable results people like. CC screws up and you never see, because the harness auto corrects, while on OSS you see everything, and does not comes with the level of monitoring by default.