Post #3757449
2026-07-12 08:08 UTC
Thinking about harnesses (again): any language which has smooth and cheap spawning/forking/co-whatevering is awesomely suited for all the sub-agent concepts
I know totally obvious but it made me realize (again) the power of shell'n'tools and how fast a harness in let's say erlang could actually scaffold something pretty big etc etc
I also realize (again) how many things could be formalized in the harness without ever touching an LLM
Really sharpens "timeless" programming concepts for me 1/2
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@sushee@ohai.social 2026-07-12 08:31
Three things stand out for me: It makes it so much clearer (to myself) that certain concepts, ideas, languages, tools are really worth knowing well Alan Kay mentioned in a talk to first write your own purpose/domain oriented DSL so what if I make harnesses then? At work I watch what LLMs are really used for - make tedium go away for starters - and it's ASTONISHING that the skewed relationship between code and "periphery" is so persistent (I've seen once in 30 yrs "golden path" work. Once)