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  • Harness Engineering Part 5 -The Big Picture

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    The Honest Truth About AI Coding Agents: What Nobody Wants to Admit You’ve probably heard the pitch by now. AI coding agents are going to 10x your productivity. Three engineers can build a million-line product in five months. Stripe merges over a thousand agent-generated PRs per week. Individual developers ship thousands of commits per month…

  • Harness Engineering Part 4 – Scaling Up

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    Your AI Coding Setup Works for You. Here’s How to Make It Work for Fifty People. You built a system that makes AI coding agents reliable. You’ve got the rules file, the architecture linters, the verification scripts, the whole harness that turns a chaotic AI session into something that actually ships production code. Your teammates…

  • Harness Engineering Part 3 – Real World Patterns

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    The Messy Reality of AI-Assisted Development: Patterns That Actually Work You’ve got the tools. You’ve got the setup. Your AI coding agent can generate a CRUD endpoint faster than you can type the file name. And yet — somehow — your projects still go sideways. The agent builds the wrong thing. Or it builds the…

  • Harness Engineering Part 2 – Core Concepts

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    The Operating System Your AI Agent Is Missing You’ve hit the wall. Maybe not today, maybe not on this project, but you’ve felt it. The AI coding agent that was brilliant for the first 200 lines starts producing garbage by line 2,000. It forgets the architecture you explained twenty minutes ago. It puts database queries…

  • What I Wish I’d Known on Day One (A Letter to My Earlier Self)

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    Part 9 of 10: The Lessons That Took Time to Learn My Pomodoro timer is live. Real users are using it (not many, but real ones). I’ve gone from “five minutes to a web app!” excitement to “nothing works and Claude keeps lying” despair to something that feels sustainable. If I could go back to…

  • The Week I Thought I’d Solved Software Development (I Hadn’t)

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    Part 2 of 10: When Everything Worked (Until It Didn’t) I spent some time believing I’d discovered the holy grail of software development. It was after my “five minutes to a web app” moment with Claude Code. The time when every lunch break turned into a private hackathon. The time I seriously considered rewriting how…

  • The Daily Standup

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    Introduction The Daily Standup is an integral part of professional Scrum. My experience and thoughts on the standup have evolved over the years. I used to think it was a way for the team to understand what was being worked on and start conversations around challenges before they got large. Now, I see it more…