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One day we added some very basic coding tools to the harness at a whim, and it just immediately (and surprisingly) blew away everything we'd tried
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2x?
In the thread “Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?”
Helped: Building a custom harness with basic coding tools added at a whim.
Got in the way: Previous agentic coding tools tried at work did not really help.
… Along came a project that required us to build a custom harness. One day we added some very basic coding tools to the harness at a whim, and it just immediately (and surprisingly) blew away everything we'd tried. Now we do most coding through that, and it's a clear productivity boost (2x?). …