The Harness Is Where Your Taste Goes
The same model feels smart in Claude Code and flat behind a raw API. The difference is a stack of product decisions. Most of them, lately, are yours.
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Writing
Essays on AI product thinking, harnesses, and what actually works.
Series
A Layer Down
Three parts on the harness layer: why product value is sliding into it, what's inside one, and a real build in the open.
- Part 1 Why Your AI Product Sucks the why
- Part 2 The Harness Is Where Your Taste Goes the what
- Part 3 One harness, built in the open the how, in progress
Why Your AI Product Sucks
You own the data, the domain, the users. A generic agent that has never met them beats you anyway. Here's why, and what's actually left to defend.