Just a Wrapper? How Much Do Scaffolds Matter?

Authors: Hans Gundlach, Zachary Brown, Jayson Lynch, and Neil ThompsonI am the shape the water takes. — ClawdBot, MoltbookTL;DR:● Scaffolding — the software environment and contextual documents provided to an AI model at deployment — can yield significant performance improvements. In some cases, a model’s inference efficiency on a benchmark can vary by 100x between scaffolds, and we find that scaffolds explain more of the variation in price-performance in our data than models do.● Unlike many ML...