When Do You Trust a Local Coding Agent Unattended? Reddit Debates Trusting the Harness, Not the Model
sunychoudhary · reddit · 2026-09-14
A Reddit thread asks what makes people comfortable leaving local coding agents running for an hour or two. The poster argues one successful task isn't enough—trust depends on how the agent behaves when tools fail, context grows long, or plans go wrong. Key insight: trust shifts from the model to the harness—permissions, checkpoints, git, tests, rollback, and tool restrictions.
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