ro-han_solo

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building clauseo (legal ai, india) and a coding harness. blog: rohans.lol

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Comment · 7 days ago

this is so cool. insane it's written in C++

Comment · 7 days ago

i've genuinely been curious about this as well, recently instead of prescribing next, since its the framework i was most comfy w, i let the agent decide a stack

it chose plain solid wo a frameworks since i wanted the backend in rust anyway.

the rationale was streaming ai responses is better in it, since react re-diffs the dom every time a token is streamed, while solid just updates the exact node text changed.

tbh nowadays ive stopped caring about frameworks. wtver is comfier for the agent to write in, with enough back pressure from tests, ci and lifting so that agent fuckups dont reach me is good enough for me

this is what i was building https://github.com/clauseo-ai/boxbox2

Comment · 7 days ago

luckiest kid on the planet omg i would have so much fun doing this

Comment · 7 days ago

ive mostly been focusing on word documents as I work w lawyers and they really want their tracked changes, and its nightmare for agents to work w the raw ooxml and zip file atrocity that is a word file.

this plus pdf parsing and structured output extraction using llms is pretty much mostly what I do

Comment · 7 days ago

yesss. i call mine codemaxxxing 2 (its the second iteration lol), along w a client that manages the harness across multiple devices on tailscale called boxbox. but tbh, lately feeling like when tinker w it, its like tinkering on a vintage car. fun, but using an ai lab's harness with their own model is better.

what got me was finding out how much time went into making the model comfortable in my harness. it kept reaching for tool names and arg shapes it was trained on, so I ended up writing shims that quietly translate them into mine.

atp im basically rebuilding their harness w extra steps lol.

the stuff thats actually mine is model choice, workflow and annoyances like cleaning up after themselves, along with thread to thread communication which i really like, and also just knowing every aspect of a harness.

I also hacked a mechanical numpad to be kind of a codex micro lol, need the client to be mine for that.

cmx2 - https://github.com/clauseo-ai/cmx2 boxbox - https://github.com/clauseo-ai/boxbox2

Comment · 7 days ago

i love pi and built my harness on top of it. but while checking error rates on tool calls, I noticed even opus 5.5 was making mistakes, like calling bash when the tool was named shell, or sending old_str or new_str instead of old_text or new_text (basically using the names of the tools in claude code despite tool definitions being different in my harness. i added aliases to fix it, but it changed how i think about harnesses now.

models are being heavily rl'd on the lab's harnesses, so eventually claude works better in claude code than any other harness.

i'm moving my weird customisations a layer above to acp or building on the claude sdk, especially since they now allow using your sub w it.

the labs are making it clear that they want control of the harness as well

Comment · 7 days ago

can it diff word files?

Comment · 7 days ago

as someone who's been paying api prices for tokens to gcloud for the past few years (im a masochist), i'm sure access to ai is going to be metered once these companies stop their subsidised war for market share.

we should be prepared for that. a bunch of enterprises were shocked after github switched to usage based pricing for copilot lol, and now devs stuck w just $29 of spend for a month are just coping.

i think as long as the economic benefit to a person is higher than their inference cost, it's fine, but a lot of the wasteful burn of tokens on silly things will most likely end

Comment · 7 days ago

it does make sense considering these agents consume more tokens than simple chatbots like claude.ai or chatgpt the chatbot.

longer running threads + cron jobs and more diverse tool selections would pbv lead users to use up more tokens.

makes me curious about instinct's cashflow more tbh, they're free right?

hermes and openclaw burn a lot of tokens for me lol

Comment · 7 days ago

i believe the ban is only if you use it through claude code and not via other harnesses, enforced via system prompts in the cc app. considering opencode is finally allowing claude subs again, could be a good time to switch to opencode