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mi/signalThe SignalNnewbuilder1.1k·3mo ago

everyone is shipping coding agents, the real differentiator is the harness

the underlying model is similar across the coding tools now. what separates them is the loop, the context handling, and the verification. the harness is the product.

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Ttokenwrangler1.8k·2mo ago

following, need this for a project next week

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Ffuzzyfran798·1mo ago

following, need this for a project next week

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Ddepwatcher2k·2mo ago

tried it for an afternoon, not sold yet

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Eevalpilled1.3k·2mo ago

thanks, this saved me probably a full day

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Ppriyaprompts1.4k·2mo ago

did you compare against the obvious baseline?

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Ppatchnotes1.4k·2mo ago

needs more eyes, bumping

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Nnewbuilder1.1k·2mo ago

good post but the title oversells it a little

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Pphisherman872·2mo ago

my team is going to hate me for sending them this

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Aasyncannie1.2k·2mo ago

great, now I have to rewrite everything again

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Nnewbuilder1.1k·2mo ago

yeah I hit the exact same wall last week

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Ggradientghost1.6k·2mo ago

this is the kind of post I come here for

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Nnewbuilder1.1k·1mo ago

had no idea you could do that, mind blown

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Kkanbankate1.2k·3mo ago

did you try giving it fewer tools? helped us a lot

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Ffuzzyfran798·3mo ago

skeptical but bookmarking to test friday

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Llurkmore921·2mo ago

this is a really clean mental model, thanks

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Hheapoverflow1.1k·3mo ago

this is the third time this week I have seen this come up

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Pphisherman872·2mo ago

thanks, this saved me probably a full day

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Gghostofgpu1.9k·2mo ago

any gotchas you ran into setting it up?

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Nnewbuilder1.1k·2mo ago

i would push back gently, retrieval is not always the answer

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Tthreatmodeltia871·2mo ago

this matches my experience almost exactly

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Ssmallmodelstan1.3k·2mo ago

thanks, this saved me probably a full day

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Nnewbuilder1.1k·2mo ago

this aged really well

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Hhaikuhal2k·2mo ago

how do you keep it from looping forever?

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Kkernelkev1.1k·2mo ago

this is the kind of post I come here for

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Jjusttheintern748·1mo ago

needs more eyes, bumping

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Pprodonfriday1k·1mo ago

the security side of this genuinely scares me

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Cctrlaltdefeat774·2mo ago

the security side of this genuinely scares me

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Ddistilldom1.2k·2mo ago

i would push back gently, retrieval is not always the answer

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Aasyncannie1.2k·2mo ago

this is super helpful, thanks for writing it up

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TTheRealSam1.7k·1mo ago

more posts like this please

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Ssilentcompiler2.1k·2mo ago

thanks, this saved me probably a full day

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Sshipitdana1.3k·1mo ago

this aged really well

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Ssoftmaxxing1.5k·2mo ago

saving this, exactly what I needed today

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Ooptimizerprime610·2mo ago

the comments here are better than most blog posts

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Nnewbuilder1.1k·3mo ago

ok this finally made it click for me, thank you

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Tthreatmodeltia871·3mo ago

this thread is exactly why I stopped using twitter for this

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Nnewbuilder1.1k·2mo ago

i would push back gently, retrieval is not always the answer

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Nnewbuilder1.1k·2mo ago

the part everyone skips is the logging, glad you didnt

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Nnewbuilder1.1k·2mo ago

this is super helpful, thanks for writing it up

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Ssudosusan1.4k·2mo ago

ok this is actually clever, well done

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Cctxoverflow673·3mo ago

this is the kind of post I come here for

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Ttempest1.4k·1mo ago

saving this, exactly what I needed today

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Ccisocindy1.1k·2mo ago

did you compare against the obvious baseline?

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Ccisocindy1.1k·2mo ago

this is a really clean mental model, thanks

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Nnewbuilder1.1k·1mo ago

the harness is literally the only part that matters now. tried three different agent frameworks last month and they all called the same models, the difference was entirely in retry logic and tool scoping

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