Hightower's AI Harness Engineering

Hightower's AI Harness Engineering

Loop Engineering: The Git-Native Fishbowl That Finally Makes Spec-Driven Development and Loop Engineering Work Beautifully with Humans and AI Agents

WikiTicket SDD Release 10: WikiTicket SDD was built to solve keeping multiple developers with multiple agnates in sync with project managers, product managers, and stakeholders

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Rick Hightower
Jul 19, 2026
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Conceptual cover: a transparent glass fishbowl holding a glowing git branch-and-merge graph in teal and amber, with human and AI-agent figures working visibly inside, representing transparent git-native fishbowl AI development

There is a fundamental tension at the heart of modern software development in 2026.

On one side, you have Spec-Driven Development. You write clear plans, acceptance criteria, and architecture decisions before diving into code. On the other side, you have Loop Engineering. You run fast, iterative cycles of building, testing, and refining in tight feedback loops.

When these two practices work together, magic happens. When they do not, chaos reigns.

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And chaos is the default the moment more than one mind joins the work. One agent works in silence. Another starts on overlapping work without knowing the context. Plans evaporate into chat windows. Non-technical project managers and stakeholders chase updates in Jira or Confluence while the real work happens invisibly in branches they can barely follow. The result is fractured flow, duplicated effort, and growing distrust. Exactly the opposite of what high-velocity teams need.

WikiTicket SDD was built to solve this exact problem.

At release 10, it turns opaque black-box agent work into a shared living fishbowl where everything is visible, traceable, and coordinated, without forcing anyone to leave the tools they already love.

You can explore it here: https://github.com/SpillwaveSolutions/wiki_ticket_sdd


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