Developers are familiar with running coding agents locally through harnesses like Pi, Claude Code, and others. They are reliable daily drivers for generating code, but keeping agents running around the clock requires your computer to be on and awake, which led to the laptop lid memes and Mac mini demand spike.

software engineers before vs after agents

Harnesses run in the cloud now, so you can close the lid.

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Harness workloads are moving to the cloud. Individual developers are deploying always-on coding agent workflows, projects like OpenWork and HanaAgent use open-source harnesses as the engines behind the apps, and engineers are building their own harness products.

These harnesses are designed for long-lived processes that keep the session in memory, and agent tasks commonly run for minutes or hours.…