I’ve been working on the harness piece of my own setup since I understood the importance of context documents. As you said, better AI results come as much from the system surrounding the model as from the model itself.
I think a lot of people still don’t understand what a “harness” means for them. For me, the value isn’t in having the smartest model or the most automation. It’s in building a clear environment around AI so the model itself is never the foundation (and can be changed without taking the whole system with it).
Amazing post Wyndo. I am seeing more and more people pay attention to harnesses now. Even people were saying that GPT feels better in Claude Code and Claude feels better in Codex. Things like that appear because models behave differently under different harnesses!
I’ve been working on the harness piece of my own setup since I understood the importance of context documents. As you said, better AI results come as much from the system surrounding the model as from the model itself.
I think a lot of people still don’t understand what a “harness” means for them. For me, the value isn’t in having the smartest model or the most automation. It’s in building a clear environment around AI so the model itself is never the foundation (and can be changed without taking the whole system with it).
Absolutely.
Harness can make a huge difference to agent quality compared to relying solely on model intelligence.
Amazing post Wyndo. I am seeing more and more people pay attention to harnesses now. Even people were saying that GPT feels better in Claude Code and Claude feels better in Codex. Things like that appear because models behave differently under different harnesses!
yes, love knowing more people care about harness because harness is way more impactful than most people think
The F1 engine analogy holds right up until the chassis is code you have to write yourself, and then the real question is which piece to build first.
I built awesome-agent-architecture to answer that: loop, tools, permissions, memory, one runnable section each.
https://github.com/hardness1020/awesome-agent-architecture