Beyond Coding: Why I Built an AI Harness to Automate My Development Lifecycle (opens in new tab)

Most conversations about AI-assisted development focus on coding. Which model writes the best code? Which IDE has the best autocomplete? Which agent can generate an entire application from a prompt? After spending months experimenting with AI coding tools, I came to a different conclusion: The bottleneck wasn’t coding. The bottleneck was everything surrounding coding. Planning, requirements analysis, architecture decisions, testing, code reviews, documentation, deployment preparation, and val...