Harness Engineering: making production AI agent improvement an engineering discipline
MaryamMiradi · x · 2026-09-16
The author argues Harness Engineering is becoming essential for production AI agents, linking a full workflow breakdown.
Core method: don't change everything and hope the agent improves. Instead —
- Change one variable at a time
- Run the same test cases
- Trace the pipeline end to end
- Measure the difference
That's how you turn "the agent feels better" into a reproducible engineering process.
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