Banana Pancakes — Notes on agentic development https://bananapancakes.co/notes/ A working reference on agentic development — harnesses, evals, tooling, review gates, and the failure modes that show up next to them. en Close the Loop https://bananapancakes.co/notes/close-the-loop/ https://bananapancakes.co/notes/close-the-loop/ Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A four-phase goal loop that eliminates most rework from agent-driven development with Codex. The Harness Is the Product https://bananapancakes.co/notes/the-harness-is-the-product/ https://bananapancakes.co/notes/the-harness-is-the-product/ Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The useful layer around coding agents is shifting from prompts to repeatable environments, gates, and workflows. Agent-first CLI design https://twitter.com/doodlestein/status/2052847475485286477 https://bananapancakes.co/notes/agent-first-cli-design/ Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A useful thread on making command-line tools legible to coding agents, not just convenient for humans.