Don't Make Me Use Your Harness: HN debate on AI coding tool friction
hnaccount93 · hn · 2026-10-10
A Hacker News discussion around an essay arguing that AI coding tools force developers into their own harnesses and conventions, rather than adapting to existing engineering workflows. The thread covers the friction of restructuring projects around each agent framework, the case for standardized interfaces, and what good tool-to-codebase integration should look like.
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