Agent harness dev: from hand-fixing bugs in 2024 to never reading code anymore
BLUECOW009 · x · 2026-10-07
BLUECOW009, a developer who has worked on agent harnesses since the early days, reflects on how much coding has changed: in 2024 he still copy-pasted and fixed bugs by hand, but now he says he never looks at the code anymore — a snapshot of how agent workflows evolved from assisted completion to end-to-end automation in about two years.
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