Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

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> Over the past five months, our team has been running an experiment: building and shipping an internal beta of a software product with 0 lines of manually-written code.

This is such a common thing among software engineers nowadays that I was very surprised that OpenAI would open with that line as if it were mind blowing.

But then I saw it was published in February and OP is just reposting it to farm karma.

I understand that the’ve written zero lines of code for this application, but would it kill them to write a few lines of the blog post by hand?

Forcing readers to wade through an unceasing string of LLM clichés demonstrates the opposite of the point you’re trying to make—that the consumers of your work are worse off because you exercised no human judgment in creating it.

Everyone is criticizing the number of lines of code and the lack of attention that must certainly have been applied to generate that code and push it into production. What is being ignored is this awesome prompt that is almost certainly better than having no agents.md or plans.md or whatever you've come up with, to add validation steps for committed changes. You're still free to look at your code, the changes, and ask the agent to clean up. Try it. It's really nice.