The speaker was concerned that the models available during Prime Agent's development were not very capable at RLM tasks.

“after after we decided to work together we decided to look into training an rlm and also build this kind of rlm harness and kind of see where we can take it that is how like prime agent came about and i think the reception for prime agent has been pretty good like the one thing i was worried about with prime agent is that none of them at least at the time when we were building it none of the models were that good at doing rlm stuff so this was like pre-fable”

“pre-Astra um”