harness initially annoyed me as well. i asked chatgpt why it’s called a harness and since then im now fully onboard heh.

the agent explained that the metaphor is about steering, a horse harness steers but it’s not technically the control, it’s a suggestion to the horse. The harness is about defining boundaries and such. You perhaps already know this, it’s just that in this instant-meme world, the fact that a word has a substantive meaning is comforting.