The six components of a coding agent
Why Claude Code or Codex feel smarter than the same model in a chat: the six harness components, according to Sebastian Raschka.
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Why Claude Code or Codex feel smarter than the same model in a chat: the six harness components, according to Sebastian Raschka.
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Machine Learning and AI specialist. I develop solutions with generative AI, intelligent agents and custom models.
Dataset with jokes in English
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Use: Training English-Spanish translation models
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