Pillar
Harness engineering
Designing agentic coding harnesses, writing reusable skills instead of one giant prompt, and running coding agents unattended.
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Staying current is a practice, not an event
Learning a language or learning to code was a project with an end. Keeping up with agentic tooling isn't — it's the same self-teaching method, run continuously, with no finish line in sight.
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Pick your posture before you pick your prompt
Why an agentic harness needs an explicit operating mode — a fast autonomous posture and a slower high-ceremony one — instead of a single prompt trying to serve both.
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Running agents unattended, overnight, and not regretting it
Recoverability beats approval gates when nobody is watching the agent work — a practical set of rules for safe unattended runs.
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Composable skills beat one giant prompt
Why small, reusable playbooks scale better than a single monolithic system prompt for an agentic coding harness.