Comment by Kuyawa
3 hours ago
I really want to know if I am doing something wrong so let me know
I don't use MCPs, agents.md, skills.md, plugins, nothing. I just open a DeepSeek Harness workspace and start a brainstorming session with a request for an architecture.md prompt.md and plan.md files, then I go prepare coffee while it does all it needs asking questions along the way and writing them in decisions.md so it understands why we took that route
Minutes later a fully functioning product that I run, check it complies with the initial plan and then ask for minor cosmetic changes
I've been doing it for six months now while I see posts and posts about people making their harnesses do things I don't see the need for. Why so complicated?
No special prompts, no rehearsed inputs, just a simple "Hello my friend, today we are going to create an app for transportation, ask all the questions you may have and at the end write an architecture.md ..."
It works, it is simple, it is enjoyable, like a friend of mine and as such we treat each other
"Minutes later a fully functioning product that I run"
There are very few people who operate in this kind of environment aka 'small new product from scratch, move on'.
Like if that's what dev was, this would be easy.
Also FYI is no such thing as a 100x developer, other than some very senior architects who's wisdom and guidance affects the outcome of gigantic projects.
Are your projects standalone? Because why I need tooling is to carry over the learning and knowledge from one project to next.
Most of them are but when I need it to learn something from one already done I just point it to that workspace, like "For the invoices app take a look at inventory workspace and learn about X and Y" or "For Prince of Persia find all available code and references online and propose architecture changes to adapt to Swift on MacOS" so yes, it learns from both local or online sources