AnalysisDevelopersAugust 27, 2026

Developer: The harness is the thing in AI coding

A developer reflects on 18 months of AI coding progress, arguing that the harness—the setup of tools like Cursor, Claude, and Pi—matters more than the model. He uses deepseek-v4-flash-0731 for most tasks, reserving Anthropic's Fable for complex work.

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