Pedro Domingos: harness engineering gets automated before it even gets a job title
itsOmSarraf_ · x · 2026-10-12
A quip from Pedro Domingos is making the rounds: as models improve, they are absorbing the engineering harness built around them — "harness engineering got automated before it even got a job title."
The exchange highlights a trend in the AI coding/agent ecosystem: glue layers of prompt assembly and tool orchestration may depreciate as end-to-end model capabilities improve.
Related event: 'The Model Eats the Harness': Agent Frameworks Being Absorbed by Models(2 posts)→
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