307 - Harness Engineering - the hard part of AI coding

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of AI coding, focusing on harness engineering and its five pillars.

The hard part of AI coding isn't generating code — it's controlling quality, safety, and drift. Kaushik and Iury break down harness engineering: the five pillars for shaping an agent's environment and what it looks like when teams build custom harnesses from scratch. Full shownotes at - https://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/307

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Hosts: Kaushik Gopal, Iury Souza

Topics covered

• AI coding
• harness engineering
• quality control
• safety
• drift
• custom harnesses

Keywords

• AI coding
• harness engineering
• quality
• safety
• drift
• custom harnesses

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