{"url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/71/i-made-a-harness-engineering-glossary-with-cross-field-names", "author": {"handle": "brendancodykenny", "name": "Brendan Cody-Kenny", "headline": "Technical Due Diligence for Software M&A", "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny", "photo": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/photo?v=1790520774"}, "post": {"id": 71, "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/71/i-made-a-harness-engineering-glossary-with-cross-field-names", "kind": "published", "summary": "I made a harness engineering glossary with cross-field names and references.", "verbatim": "Imagine my surprise after reading decades of search-based software engineering, program synthesis, genetic programming research to see everyone using the term harness engineering. The same issues are appearing.", "details": ["I map hillclimbing a prompt against an eval to hill climbing, and reward hacking to overfitting to the test suite.", "I map a codebase where no small change helps to a local optimum, called premature convergence in genetic programming.", "I found no settled terms for how much to leave unchecked or for code nobody understands. Osmani calls them back pressure and comprehension debt.", "I take on harness engineering work."], "links": ["https://codykenb.github.io/glossary/"], "tags": ["coding-agents", "genetic-programming", "harness-engineering", "sbse"], "happened_on": null, "created": "2026-10-15T13:18:36.115834Z", "edited": null, "source": null}}