My Harness: How I stopped babysitting AI and went kitesurfing
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A Rails developer shares a structured AI coding workflow called a 'harness' built on top of Claude Code. The system coordinates AI agents through brainstorming, spec writing, implementation planning, per-task reviews, and CI checks — preventing agent drift and technical debt. Key elements include convention skills that encode project patterns, hooks that enforce them, intent-level implementation plans, and a multi-step automated review pipeline. The result: a medium-sized feature goes from idea to production in roughly 4 hours, with the developer spending only one hour on QA and code review. The workflow is open-sourced as a superpowers-rails plugin.
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