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Martin Fowler
martinfowler.com
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Naresh Jain compares coding agents with and without a harness. He found it made a frontier model more expensive in tokens for little gain, but make a weaker (and cheaper) model more effective.
https://martinfowler.com/articles/are-harnesses-worth-the-cost.html
2026-10-13T13:49:09.156Z