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Are the LLM and agent the same thing? Why different nouns ?
by stogot 1mo ago
Are the LLM and agent the same thing? Why different nouns ?
- computerex 1mo agoThe LLM is the core model, but the harness has the prompts/tool definitions, guidance/recovery/correction code. The harness itself is the agent, because same model may perform vastly differently on different harnesses. Agent is the system working as a whole, harness+llm.
- rl1987 1mo agoLLM is the digital brain. Agent is a software robot with "sensors" (tooling to read data from files/web) and "actuators" (tooling to perform changes in the environment) that is based on the digital brain.
- pjerem 1mo agoLLM is just the thing generating text. It can generate a book, an article, a paper or a conversation. It's the raw "autocomplete" mechanism. You give it input, it generates output. The agent/harness is the sotware that leverage this "dumb" autocompletion engine to do useful things by sending the good input to the model and doing useful things with the output.
- Grimblewald 1mo agothink of it like the words "car" and "engine", one goes into the other and both have their impact on overall capacity, feel, performance etc. each in their own way. The llm is an engine, the harness is the rest of the car.