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The harness makes agentic code hold up
I think the hard part of agentic software engineering is not getting an agent to produce code. That part is becoming cheap. The hard part is getting an agent to produce changes that still belong to the same codebase afte…
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Agent harnesses are state machines
I increasingly see a properly configured agent harness as a state machine.
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It is starting to feel strange when the work stops as I sleep
It is starting to feel strange when the work stops as I sleep.
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Expensive AI code review is not insane
Anthropic estimates Claude Code Review at roughly $15 to $25 per PR. At first glance, that sounds insane.
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Agent harnesses will move onto the shelf
The next useful abstraction for agents is not another chat box. It is the shelf.
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App stores will evolve into agent markets
The app store was the distribution primitive for software you owned, installed, and opened. The agent market will be the distribution primitive for work you delegate.
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