When I think about a harness in context of AI, pit pony harnesses come into my mind ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Descente_d%27un_chev... ). That's also how I always thought about them, maybe the climber/tool belt analogy is better when thinking about capabilities.

I don't know enough about DJing, but maybe that is also an analogy to GenAI usage that can work.

DJing is an interesting art. It’s not creative per se, but can be done creatively. Modern DJ software+hardware in particular allows for a ton of on-the-fly remixing, clever use of fx and stems, and even some custom on-the-fly production setups. But the average DJ (and even electronic music producer) is much closer to Guitar Hero than they are to writing their own songs for guitar.

MCPs and complex CLI tools running locally/native via graalvm might be a great usecase for Java. https://quarkus.io/blog/mcp-server/

I am patiently waiting for LARP AR glasses that have all kinds of these filters.

Sorry, did you read this https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2018/12/14/SJWJS.html?

I personally associate Prism with [Silverlight - Composite Web Apps With Prism](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2009...) due to personal reasons I don't want to talk about ;))

> A fun tendency is that Claude kept getting distracted by topics of secrecy, conspiracy, and hidden systems - as if the task itself summoned a Foucault’s Pendulum mindset.

I really appreciate you mentioning this. I think this is the nature of LLMs in general. Any symbol it processes can affect its reasoning capabilities.

Lego Duplo is the best. It is a great creative toy at least from 2 to 10. Especially when you have it from early on and it is just "part of the furniture".

It's much easier to collect from the ground than Lego.

Newer Lego stuff also has so many tiny parts.

A good XSL-FO impl with docbook or something like that?

Nah, package managers are always the "civilization" moments of programming.

Great article!