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New comment by xander_north in "The Twelve-Factor App (2025)"

xander_north — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:14:07 +0000

Okay so this may sound odd but this is literally my whole life right now...

Can you explain why do you feel MFA is painful/unsustainable? How would you fix it?

New comment by xander_north in "Harness engineering for self-improvement"

xander_north — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:48:20 +0000

Fascinating article, thank you!

New comment by xander_north in "Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents"

xander_north — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:25:24 +0000

It does, thanks! Looking forward to trying this out.

New comment by xander_north in "Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents"

xander_north — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:25:35 +0000

Really interesting. I've been working on building out more self-sufficient agents with harnesses to match, and this feels like the next logical step. I'd love to try this.

Curious how you guys are thinking about the difference between project-specific and project-agnostic harnesses and tooling. For me, it feels like a lot of the work is project specific and I'm not sure how to abstract that.

P.S. The code is not working for me.