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SIG
Company blog · softwareimprovementgroup.com/blogprogrammingbusiness
SIG is the company blog at softwareimprovementgroup.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Cited in discussions of the history of the term 'agent harness' for AI agents, as a source for how its meaning shifted. Commenters cite it for facts and do not judge the writing.
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What Hacker News says?
Whole books have been written about this. I use the following rules from [1] myself. I like them because they definitely put some constraints on my coding which I like. It forces me to think beforehand and gives me (a junior developer) some guidance which I desperately need: * Write functions/units that are <= 15 LoC. * Create units with <4 branching points * Write functions/units with <5 parameters These guidelines…
Comment linking /resources/ebook-building-maintainable-software/
on “Ask HN: How do you write code so it's easy to change?”Submitted Legacy Modernization at SIG: revamping our authorization system – part 1 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYes, the concept itself is not new. Around 2022, people would usually have called it the orchestration layer. But I think the term started being used closer to its current meaning around this point: https://www.softwareimprovementgroup.com/blog/what-is-harnes... In a way, the sequence was something like: prompt engineering(23~4) -> context engineering(25) ->harness engineering(26) At first, it was mostly understood…
Comment linking /blog/what-is-harness-engineering/
on “The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox”Submitted Modern CI/CD pipelines at my company as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting up a CI/CD pipeline as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CI/CD from the perspective of a company which assesses software quality as a story · 1 points
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