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Harness Engineering 101
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- Apr 13, 2026
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Summary
We went from prompt engineering to context engineering, and now the discipline everyone in AI is talking about is harness engineering — designing the systems, tools, and context you put around a model so it can actually do real work. Today's episode is a primer on what harness engineering is, why it explains the strange convergence of every AI product into the same shape, and what Anthropic's new managed agents tell us about where it's all heading. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled , gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results …