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I built an open-source agent harness that lets a 2B model finish real tasks (288-cell benchmark, all data public)

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Every person who has tried to make a 2B model do real work on their own machine knows the failure mode. The model loops on the same tool call, or declares victory with half the deliverables missing, or just goes silent in the middle of the task. The usual conclusion is "small models are toys". I di…

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  1. 2026-09-30 17:57 · DEV Community — AI
    I built an open-source agent harness that lets a 2B model finish real tasks (288-cell benchmark, all data public)

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