A coding agent needs a harness, not a longer prompt
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A coding agent can produce a plausible patch with a good prompt. Reliable progress across a real repository needs more than prompt quality. The Harness Engineering roadmap treats the environment around the agent as a system. The first build turns implicit expectations into scoped repository instruc…
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- 2026-09-20 04:30 · DEV Community — AI
A coding agent needs a harness, not a longer prompt