Discovery Rituals for AI Tools
In the rapidly shifting landscape of AI-assisted development, your current stack is always decaying. To remain at the frontier, you must transition from “using tools” to “maintaining a discovery ritual.” This ritual is the engine behind the Tooling Chaos Monkey—it provides the candidates for your regular tool swaps. The Strategy: Models vs. Harnesses To do effective discovery, you must distinguish between the Model (the brain) and the Harness (the body/agent/IDE). Harness: Tools like Claud Code, Cline, Roo Code, OpenHands, or Droid. They provide the tool-use logic, environment access, and UI. Models: The underlying LLMs (Claude 3.5, GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5). A breakthrough can happen in either. A great model can fail in a poor harness, and a clever harness can make a mediocre model shine. ...