Are Harnesses Worth the Cost?
Naresh Jain compares coding agents building the same API service with and without a behavioral harness. A frontier model, GPT-6 Sol, passed every external evaluation either way. But a cost-optimized model, GPT-6 Luna, succeeded in only 3 of 10 unharnessed runs and all 10 with the harness. While…
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- T2Are Harnesses Worth the Cost?Martin Fowler / Overreacted / Kent C. Dodds / Josh Comeau