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Harness Engineering 101: How Coding Agents Actually Work

Take one model and give it 169 real bug-fixing tasks from SWE-bench Verified. Keep the weights, the tasks and the context window exactly the same.

  • Harness engineering optimizes model performance in tasks
  • Agent combines model with harness to complete tasks
  • Loop engineering wraps harness in additional loops

Decide the Agent Seat by the Bundle You Can Carry Out

I would not park an agent on a free server until I can carry the whole run away. A friendly login and a warm machine can still hide the files, the tool transcript, and the prompt that produced a bad…

  • Self-hosted boxes and paid isolated machines provide accessible disk after process
  • Shared free servers may disappear when operator reclaims the seat

Understanding MCP Servers

The first time I heard about MCP, It seemed like something really complex. But it isn't. I remember the first mcp I used was the Figma MCP to replicate the design my fellow designer had created.

  • MCP stands for Multi-Modal Communication Protocol
  • Enables AI to interact with external tools and data sources
  • Host communicates with MCP server via client

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