--- title: My Harness: How I stopped babysitting AI and went... description: A Rails developer shares a structured AI coding workflow called a 'harness' built on top of Claude Code. The system coordinates AI agents through... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/my-harness-how-i-stopped-babysitting-ai-and-went-kitesurfing-3uyqgo837 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: My Harness: How I stopped babysitting AI and went kitesurfing | daily.dev og:description: A Rails developer shares a structured AI coding workflow called a 'harness' built on top of Claude Code. The system coordinates AI agents through... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-harness-how-i-stopped-babysitting-ai-and-went-kitesurfing-3uyqgo837 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3UYQGO837.png og:image:alt: My Harness: How I stopped babysitting AI and went kitesurfing og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # My Harness: How I stopped babysitting AI and went kitesurfing **[Ruby Flow](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyflow)** · 15 min read · 7 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@yaireo** · 3 upvotes > Basically begging to be fired.. admitting he/she are barely needed and will be needed even less as AI's abilities progress ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Harness Engineering](https://daily.dev/posts/harness-engineering-l1sahcwor) · Martin Fowler · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [The State Of AI Harness Engineering 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/the-state-of-ai-harness-engineering-2026-z2cv9sfcz) · marmelab · 11 upvotes · 0 comments - [Harness engineering: Structured workflows for AI-assisted development](https://daily.dev/posts/harness-engineering-structured-workflows-for-ai-assisted-development-bs9tvvjaw) · Red Hat Developer · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#rails](https://daily.dev/tags/rails), [#tdd](https://daily.dev/tags/tdd), [#claude-code](https://daily.dev/tags/claude-code), [#vibe-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/vibe-coding) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/my-harness-how-i-stopped-babysitting-ai-and-went-kitesurfing-3uyqgo837) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"My Harness: How I stopped babysitting AI and went kitesurfing","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/my-harness-how-i-stopped-babysitting-ai-and-went-kitesurfing-3uyqgo837","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/my-harness-how-i-stopped-babysitting-ai-and-went-kitesurfing-3uyqgo837"},"datePublished":"2026-03-20T19:30:34.911Z","dateModified":"2026-03-20T19:31:00.862Z","description":"A Rails developer shares a structured AI coding workflow called a 'harness' built on top of Claude Code. 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