🔧 Surviving the Shai-Hulud: Why Agent Eval Harnesses and Local LLMs Are the New Supply Chain Defense

Originally published on tamiz.pro.

In Frank Herbert’s Dune, the Shai-Hulud (sandworms) represents an overwhelming, unpredictable force of nature that must be respected, navigated, or survived. In modern software engineering, we have a new Shai-Hulud: the chaotic, non-deterministic, and often opaque supply chain of Large Language Model (LLM)...