Howardism · Vol. 03Plate II · No. 02
Harness, tagged.
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Every article tagged harness, newest first.
| Title | Summary | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Does the Human-Facing Harness (HTML Artifacts) Hit Its Own Bloat Ceiling? | Yes — HTML raises and reshapes the human-attention ceiling but can't remove it; bloat relocates from document-length to artifact-sprawl/rubber-stamping; the ceiling gets *more* binding as models improve (inverse of the shrinking model-facing harness) | |
| Agent Loop Pattern | `/loop` (cron-scheduled) and Ralph Wiggum (backlog-draining) loops as next-generation agent primitive; AFK execution, parallel fan-out, "loops are the future" | |
| Harness Shrinkage as Models Improve | Prompt scaffolding shrinks each model release; Cat Wu's pruning discipline; Boris Cherny "100 lines of code a year from now" claim; mechanical verification stays load-bearing |