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Why does every AI lab feel the need to build their own coding agent…? Don’t we have more than enough already?
Outputs are a little bit more deterministic if you control the harness.

It is easy to benchmark across one harness, one system prompt and extract the most performance when you control the harness.

It is the only part with value
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And they are all TUI's installed via curl | bash.
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