software-engineering

The Harness of the Agent Harness

Inside the DeepSeek Harness repo is another harness: a documentation system that helps agents keep track of context, decisions, failures, and hard-won engineering lessons.

A Tale of Two Agent Harnesses

Pi and DeepSeek Harness, two philosophies for controlling complexity, preserving engineering judgment, and building agent-native software.

Less is More

As AI makes code abundant, the harder engineering judgment is deciding which code deserves to remain.

The AI-Assisted Frontend Trap: Fast Demos, Fragile Systems

Coding agents can produce impressive frontend demos quickly, but production systems still depend on explicit state, verifiable rules, and human architectural judgment.

The 40-Plus-Year AI Joke That Still Holds

A Daniel Dennett and Marvin Minsky joke still captures the paradox of fluent AI: useful enough to trust, strange enough to doubt, and powerful enough to demand human judgment.

Code Review in the Age of AI: Why It Matters More, Not Less

As AI makes code faster to produce, code review becomes the place where teams turn individual output into shared understanding, judgment, and durable software.

MCP Is Not Dead. You’re Just Using It Wrong.

Harness Engineering: The Missing Layer Between AI Coding and Safe Automation for Financial Institutions

When AI Writes the Code, What Do You Write?

I’m Not Sure I’m a Programmer Anymore

How to Keep Your AI-Generated Codebase Clean and Maintainable: The CRISP Strategy

The Great NPM Shift: How AI Tools Redefined JavaScript’s Package Manager