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Harness Engineering: The Discipline of Building Reliable Coding Agents Beyond the Model

A coding agent is the model plus everything you build around it: prompts, tools, context policies, hooks, sandboxes, feedback loops. Harness engineering is t...

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Addy Osmani6h ago18 min readenInsight

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