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AI coding agent trapped in a feedback loop with code tests and error signals

Coding Agents Starve Without Feedback Loops – Here's the Harsh Truth

Your AI coding agent generates slick code. But it flops in production because no one's feeding it real signals. Time to wake up.

3 min read 12 hours ago

Diagram of six-component AI agent harness with feature list, progress file, and regression gate

AI & Machine Learning

The Six-Part Harness Keeping AI Agents from Imploding on Real Codebases

AI agents promise to code entire apps — but most crumble after a few sessions. This six-part harness, battle-tested on Skilldeck, fixes that with brutal ground truth.

4 min read 13 hours ago

Diagram of AI harness engineering loop with skills, verifiers, and orchestrators debugging a microservice

AI & Machine Learning

Harness Engineering: Ditch Prompts, Build AI Loops That Actually Work

Tired of babysitting AI prompts? Harness engineering turns models into self-correcting debug machines. But is it the savior or just more buzz?

4 min read 19 hours ago

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Coding Agents Starve Without Feedback Loops – Here's the Harsh Truth

The Six-Part Harness Keeping AI Agents from Imploding on Real Codebases

Harness Engineering: Ditch Prompts, Build AI Loops That Actually Work

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