Still figuring out agent infrastructure- does the model eventually become the easy part?
I have been playing with the local-LLM side of things, once Qwen3.8-27B dropped yesterday... Ofc i spent the initial hours bawling over the benchmark numbers 😅
But ofc while all the running the model is good... For someone like me (grad student), what happens after you've got the model running becomes less obvious...
By now the argument for "harness engineering" is really strong... Establishing that the durable engineering advantage may increasingly sit around the model, and that a better harness improves agent performance far more than simply swapping one good model for another.
Qwen3. 8-27B feels like a good example of why that matters.
Currently stacks like:
Model -> harness -> tools -> state/context -> permission -> eval -> deploy
I know I just wrote basic stuff😭
Me can figure out this stuff for 1 agent... But for people who actually get work done by locally running models or for companies that have 20,50,more agents:
How do u manage and version them?
How do u give each one scooped tool access?
How evaluate, and actually observe their actual actions after deployment?
How do u keep the whole thing manageable across machines/clouds?
I'm curious as to what ppl here are actually using for this parts.... Is the ans basically DIY stack around llama.cop+ Langgraph/OpenCode + own tooling or are the different llatforms for agent-infrastructure and control plane doing good?
I saw NVIDIA is going more runtime direction with NemoClaw and OpenHands has something on control plane, on ln I came across Lyzr and their no code control plane .... How much of those are branding and how much actual work?
Would like to know ur views