Improving the Harness

[image error] Now that GenAI is all the rage, I will share more about it. Kent Beck says "nobody knows for sure, we can just explore and share what we found".

Here is a little trick I use to improve my AI workflow. Birgitta Böckeler defines harness as the support we give a coding agent to help it do its job, so harness engineering is all the work we do around that to make that possible. A part of the harness comes with your coding agent (i.e. inner harness - e.g. its system prompt), and there are parts which...
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Published on October 12, 2026 05:37
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