Harness Engineering

Post by tomrod » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 4:55 PM UTC

sroussey wrote: post #36

tomrod wrote: post #9

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Hear hear! We techies are bad at naming things. "NoSQL" is probably a top contender there.

I give you "serverless" which is on someone else's... server.

Post by gardnr » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 5:15 PM UTC

tosh wrote: post #40

ricardobeat wrote: post #29

The term harness engineering does not come from Birgitta Boeckeler's article in martinfowler.com. It was first used by Mitchel Hashimoto months earlier in his 'My AI adoption journey' blog post [1], and immediately picked up by OpenAI [2] a week later. Also worth noting that this text is not only entirely AI generated, but meant for other agents to read , not us humans. [1] https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoptio…

the one by https://earendil.com/posts/what-is-a-harness/ is also a good read and if you want to see what a simple harness implementation looks like you can just dive into the code and ask your favorite agent about it https://github.com/smol-env/smol https://github.com/earendil-works/pi

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 5:57 PM UTC

esafak wrote: post #3

What even is this "AI Literacy framework"? When I see such overengineering I look at what the author has done. In this case, I find the author runs a consultancy on engineering "Habitats for Humans and AI" ( https://www.russmiles.com/ ), listing a bunch of books he did not write (the author names are conveniently cropped out). This doesn't even belong on LinkedIn.

Post by brianjking » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 12:56 AM UTC

sroussey wrote: post #36

tomrod wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hear hear! We techies are bad at naming things. "NoSQL" is probably a top contender there.

I give you "serverless" which is on someone else's... server.