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Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

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Re: Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

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post #145

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Good thing I wasn't asking you. Also, a skill is not a harness.

Your hostile tone is unfortunate, especially since my post was actually friendly. I was just trying to point why it is very likely the OP won't give you what you're asking so you're not left confused if he ends up ghosting you. Many people use the term harness to refer to the agent coding software (eg. Opencode, Claude Code...), i use this term more broadly to refer to the environment (set of skills, system prompts,…

Meanwhile, in the grandparent:

> I wish these breathless blog posts would actually try to be more didactic.

Especially from a company actually trying to promote AI use, Mr. Occam says hiding such details is best explained by them not actually being that impressive.

(See also: Claude Code source leak)

Re: Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

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post #204

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So, did this internal prototype ultimately end up being used to create/influence a real product, e.g. Codex app?

Yep!

No detail about this in the article or your comment here, but the voluminous lines of code get a big call-out. Very interesting!
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