AI Engineer Explains Why Autonomous Agents Still Need Human Babysitting: Reliability Comes from Harness Design
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-08-16
An article on AI agent reliability argues that a strong model is not enough; reliability comes from the harness around it: stopping rules, tools, memory, recovery, permissions, and verification. DoorDash ran 130,000 automated tasks in a month, and OpenAI had 3 engineers merge 1,500 PRs in 5 months using the same basic idea.
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