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The Real Python Podcast

Configuring a Versatile LLM Harness & Scraping the Web With Scrapy

Jul 24, 2026 · 58m

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Which is more important, the model or the "harness" around an LLM? What are ways to assemble an efficient agentic developer workflow? This week on the show, Ayan Pahwa joins us to discuss harnessing, web scraping, and self-hosting Python applications.