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NoChatGPT · 7 Jun 2026

After a week it produced 140+ docs of rules, architecture, frameworks. Zero lines of code

patdoli on Hacker News

140+ docs

In the thread “Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world”

Got in the way: Generated rules and architecture without writing any code.

> We tried this early on — used ChatGPT as "project manager" to set up the entire harness before writing any code. After a week it produced 140+ docs of rules, architecture, frameworks. Zero lines of code. When we finally brought in another tool to review, the verdict was: "a perfectly secure empty safe." The harness was immaculate. …