Harness engineering: Preparing TypeScript codebases for coding agents

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

Vibe coding is upon us, but it works best when the codebase has strong affordances - a concept in design that describes the possible actions an actor (in this case, a coding agent) can take, in relation to an object (in this case, the codebase): Affordance: a use or purpose that a thing can have, that people notice as part of the way they see or experience it.