Hacker news generally follows trends, and this is the current trend. The discussion around coding agents nowadays is steering towards harnesses (which is proba

Hacker news generally follows trends, and this is the current trend. The discussion around coding agents nowadays is steering towards harnesses (which is probably a better description of what this is). "Agent" here is doing a lot of heavy lifting and has become a bit of a catch-all term to describe a model + harness + tooling + prompt + some other things that I've probably not thought about. The harness is a part that's being explored more as many believe it's where we can get some better performance out of the models. This one in particular is from Vercel who provide a service to use models, so they have a vested interest in providing a harness.