The agent harness isn't for the agent — it's for us
seanmcdonaldxyz · x · 2026-10-30
A pointed one-liner making the rounds: the harness around coding agents isn't really built for the agent's benefit, it's built so humans can supervise, understand, and control it — a crisp framing of why current agent infrastructure looks the way it does.
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