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by mrothroc 33 days ago
I fully agree with the idea: above a model capability threshold, the power comes from the harness far more than the model. Engineers can get tremendous power from learning how to do CICD and automation. If you view the models and agentic code pipelines as a natural evolution of this, you see the benefit.

I did a quick look at the content, and it seems verbose and AI generated but conceptually OK. I learn by tinkering, not a good fit for me, but if you learn by reading, maybe this is for you.

My view is that human time is more precious than computer time. If something can be automated, then automate it. I don't lint code by hand, I get the linter to do it. Similarly, LLMs expand the list of things that computers can do. That's what you get from the harness, however you learn to do it.