Thin Harness, Fat Skills · article
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- Apr 15, 2026
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A short essay arguing that productive AI coding agents come from a lightweight harness plus composable skills. Explains the context-management and workflow ideas behind the '10-100x' claim. An opinion piece, not a harness you can run.
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The framework much of the current agent discourse is downstream of: keep the harness lightweight, push capability into composable skills, claim 10–100x. Read the original before the takes about it — this is the source.
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