New arXiv Paper Empirically Studies How Harness Design Shapes Coding Agent Performance
wek · hn · 2026-09-18
An arXiv paper presents an empirical study of harness design for coding agents — the scaffolding, tool interfaces, and prompt orchestration wrapped around models — and is drawing discussion on Hacker News.
The core question it tackles: the same model can perform very differently under different harnesses, making harness design an underappreciated variable in agent benchmarks and deployments.
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