"Explain the harness" is apparently the new "explain LLMs" genre of slop blogging, I now see articles to this effect on HN daily.
Harness Engineering
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#12it lists 'Garbage Collection' as one of the 3 components of a harness
I don't know any harness that solves 'Garbage Collection' in the way described here
(most harnesses accelerate context pollution and code base drift via instructions they embed into system prompts, tool descriptions and skills)
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#13Not saying this is AI-gen but it's very dense and doesn't read like something I could glean info from easily
Looks like typical material coming out of consulting companies like ThoughtWorks, designed to obfuscate rather than educate.
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#14What’s the best current practice if we want to enable agent code review and approval of GitHub PRs but only for specific users?
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#15Not saying this is AI-gen but it's very dense and doesn't read like something I could glean info from easily
I think this article posted to HN last week did a better job explaining things IMO https://earendil.com/posts/what-is-a-harness/
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#16Not saying this is AI-gen but it's very dense and doesn't read like something I could glean info from easily
> Not saying this is AI-gen
The prose is definitely written by a Claude-like
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#17Here’s the original article this one is based on: https://martinfowler.com/articles/harness-engineering.html
And here is the original author on a podcast talking about it: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4FxEdjXldNhoh67KYVmbDu
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#18Not saying this is AI-gen but it's very dense and doesn't read like something I could glean info from easily
It is pretty obvious that Claude wrote it. No human writes README that long, and it's one of the contributors: https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers
This looks good - is there a version of it for CODEX? If not i guess it could easily be transformed for it.
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#19I also stumbled upon this site, which on a first glance looks really thorough. Interested to hear if folks have comments on it though:
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#20This is perfect, here's a tool for harness engineering to be more effective that I just released today https://github.com/issacnitin/RealDiff