Harness engineering for coding agent users

We are entering a window of opportunity in which collaboration between human researchers and AI systems will bear the most fruit. But it will not last very long, with far-reaching consequences.

The discipline of designing everything around an AI model that makes it reliable in production

If AI agents are going to do real work, the prompt is only one part of the setup. The interface around the AI matters more.

Awesome list for AI agent harness engineering: tools, patterns, evals, memory, MCP, permissions, observability, and orchestration. - ai-boost/awesome-harness-engineering

The agent is the model plus the harness. The runtime is where the harness lives. As models get better, the structure we put around them turns from scaffoldin...

Optimism in the age of AI, Code Mode for TanStack, and the unwritten laws of software engineering

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You’re listening to the Naval Podcast. This is Nivi. There’s no set topic for this episode—it will be a potpourri. The Fully Interconnected Startup Naval, how are you using AI at Impossible, your current company, to change how you manage the business? Or are you guys just too small and a bunch of brilliant independent contributors where it’s not having an effect on how you actually run the company? It’s more the latter. More

A collection of things I read in April that stuck with me, covering AI agents, tooling and other interesting blog posts.

Building an agent sounds straightforward until you actually start. Before you write a single line of business logic, you're already deep in ...

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