Harness engineering is raising the floor: optimising the environment a coding agent runs in so that the results of every single turn are as good as possible.

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• The winning move in coding agents was inverted: take share with a merely good-enough harness first, then go back and make the harness smart. DRDax Raad27 May 2026
• When an AI lab builds both a model and a coding harness, the model is optimized for that lab's own harness first. SRSebastian Raschka27 Jun 2026
• What made Claude Code better than every CLI coding agent before it was reinforcement learning on the model and the harness together, so the model got good at that harness’s specific tools. DHDex Horthy15 Jul 2026
• Having the very best AI model and harness does not result in better or faster execution and can slow teams down GOGergely Orosz19 Sept 2026
• A good tool raises the floor of what people can build without lowering the ceiling, and almost every tool quietly lowers the ceiling. TLTobias Lütke18 Sept 2025

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