How to Grow a Factory from a Dozen Pipelines in a Year: From Cursor to a Two-Tier Harness

The author describes how he built a system of nearly a dozen parallel AI pipelines with two-tier management (harness) over the course of a year. Key principles include ratchet (fixing errors by changing the environment), sensor-first (invariants as detectors), and measurability of rules. The skeleton code is published on GitHub.

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