I often tell it to stop asking me and just keep going until it accomplishes X task; unfortunately it tends to assume I want something that only just barely works
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Got in the way: Models assume minimal working solutions instead of rigorous generalization.
… harness is part of it, I think it's also a lack of epistemic understanding or awareness for what it means to actually solve a problem vs just get something kinda working; maybe if Claude Code or other harnesses made web search more likely or had a better way to make technical documentation and specs available to models, it would be better solvable there. I often tell it to stop asking me and just keep going until it accomplishes X task; unfortunately it tends to assume I want something that only just barely works, in the sense that it means it's time to stop once its there, which is I don't think a harness by itself could easily address (ultimately the model itself needs to determine the stopping points unless I literally specify by hand hidden evaluation criteria). That's why think it's at least partially a training issue where the model gets rewarded for …