Dev long-read: coding agent harness works — Claude Code handles vague tickets on unfamiliar codebases
itsOmSarraf_ · x · 2026-10-07
In the article "Building the super-harness", developer giaccoangelo argues the coding agent harness genuinely works: hand Claude Code a vague ticket and it reads a codebase it has never seen and writes the fix. He admits agents are now better at his job than he'd like to admit publicly, positioning the harness — not just the model — as the key enabler.
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