lebek

The harness is just another codebase for the model to write and optimize. The value is still very much in the model.

Not a bad analogy because the bigger your backpack the slower you walk. With models a big context and tool set degrades performance. So you want the smallest harness/backpack that can do the job.

Codex and Claude historically had more bloat in their system prompt and tools. Pi is minimal by design so more adaptable. But to be fair Claude Code is moving in the Pi direction with a small system prompt.

The point is that it's general. It can do this task and many other tasks and it doesn't need custom development like OpenCV does. Of course if you only want to count pills and you want it to be cheap/fast you're still better off using OpenCV.