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ge96yesterday at 10:55 PM2 repliesview on HN

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...


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arcanemachineryesterday at 11:56 PM

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.

rcarmoyesterday at 11:08 PM

LLM harness has been in vogue for a year now…

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