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Is that an official term "coding harness" Wondering if you wanted a similar interface (though a GUI not just CLI) where it's not for coding what would you call

by ge96 8mo ago

Is that an official term "coding harness" Wondering if you wanted a similar interface (though a GUI not just CLI) where it's not for coding what would you call that? Same idea cycle through models, ask question, drag-drop images, etc...

rcarmo 8mo ago
LLM harness has been in vogue for a year now…
- outofpaper 8mo ago
  A harness is a collection of stubs and drivers configured to assist with automation or testing. It's a standard term often used in QA as they've been automating things for ages before Gen Ai came on to the scene.
  - arcanemachiner 8mo ago
    Yes, it is also a device used to control the movement of work animals, which farmers have been using for ages before QA came on to the scene.
  - squeefers 8mo ago
    its technically an IDE, but harness makes it sound new and fancy.
arcanemachiner 8mo ago
Yes. It seems to be the term that stands out the most, as terms like "AI coding assistant", "agentic coding framework", etc. are too vague to really differentiate these tools. "harness" fits pretty nicely IMO. It can be used as a single word, and it's not too semantically overloaded to be useful in this context.
unshavedyak 8mo ago
Honestly, i'm not interested in this if it can't use my subscription, but now i really want to understand this idea of coding harness. I've been exploring ideas that might be quite similar, though more inline with the scope of IDE, and it sounds like "coding harness" fits my mental model better.
- ge96 8mo ago
  I'm not interested in coding myself as I like to write code still, I'm interested in that idea of task delegation eg. "research about this topic" or "do this". Having a bunch of agents doing things, that could be cool. For me I'm looking to stick with Python so will whip something up with Tkinter later for the desktop GUI aspect although I still like Electron/JS primarily.

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Is that an official term "coding harness" Wondering if you wanted a similar interface (though a GUI not just CLI) where it's not for coding what would you call

by ge96 8mo ago

rcarmo 8mo ago
LLM harness has been in vogue for a year now…
- outofpaper 8mo ago
  A harness is a collection of stubs and drivers configured to assist with automation or testing. It's a standard term often used in QA as they've been automating things for ages before Gen Ai came on to the scene.
  - arcanemachiner 8mo ago
    Yes, it is also a device used to control the movement of work animals, which farmers have been using for ages before QA came on to the scene.
  - squeefers 8mo ago
    its technically an IDE, but harness makes it sound new and fancy.
arcanemachiner 8mo ago
Yes. It seems to be the term that stands out the most, as terms like "AI coding assistant", "agentic coding framework", etc. are too vague to really differentiate these tools. "harness" fits pretty nicely IMO. It can be used as a single word, and it's not too semantically overloaded to be useful in this context.
unshavedyak 8mo ago
Honestly, i'm not interested in this if it can't use my subscription, but now i really want to understand this idea of coding harness. I've been exploring ideas that might be quite similar, though more inline with the scope of IDE, and it sounds like "coding harness" fits my mental model better.
- ge96 8mo ago
  I'm not interested in coding myself as I like to write code still, I'm interested in that idea of task delegation eg. "research about this topic" or "do this". Having a bunch of agents doing things, that could be cool. For me I'm looking to stick with Python so will whip something up with Tkinter later for the desktop GUI aspect although I still like Electron/JS primarily.