Beyond Coding: Why I Built an AI Harness to Automate My Development Lifecycle

Short summary

The real bottleneck in AI-assisted development isn't code generation—it's everything around it: planning, testing, docs, and review. This author built an AI harness orchestrating AI across the entire lifecycle (requirements → planning → code → tests → docs → review), creating consistency and reducing manual coordination. Process design outweighs model selection.

• •AI development bottleneck is workflow coordination, not code generation
• •Structured harness orchestrating AI through planning → code → tests → docs → review improves consistency
• •Process design and systematic workflows matter more than model selection

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