Harnesses are Situated Agents

There’s some talk today about how agentic coders are balking at Anthropic’s pricing and adopting alternatives. I was reminded of a thought I had in the weeks following Fable’s release: the free lunch was over.

Keep your context clean by keeping your agent's skills and tools in check.

Stewart Brand's Pace Layers framework reveals why AI's speed is straining the slower systems it depends on for support.

The plain-English prompt that makes prototypes effortless turns out to be a poor way to specify how a system should behave, and the bill arrives slowly, disguised as ordinary progress, until the application can barely move.

When an agent can explain anything, should we keep writing docs for humans?