The open-source overcorrection is making us overlook great harness engineering
manosaie · x · 2026-08-25
Developer manosaie argues that the current overcorrection toward open source is causing the industry to overlook the value of great harness engineering. What matters isn't just good, self-driving, or minimal-shell harnesses, but opinionated, well-designed, deep harnesses — and there's a whole science to it still being discovered.
The take feeds into the ongoing debate over model capability vs. surrounding engineering in coding agents.
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