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Harness Engineering: Why Better Models Aren't Enough to Ship AI Agents

That gap is "harness engineering," and it's where the real work of building production-grade agents happens

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Harness Engineering: Why Better Models Aren't Enough to Ship AI Agents

You actually cant see your agents

Agent observability is a distributed systems problem, and OpenTelemetry is the backbone

Agents
You actually cant see your agents

Agents make retrieval harder, not obsolete

That works for focused problems, not agents

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Agents make retrieval harder, not obsolete

What a Lisbon cafe told me about Anthropic's marketplace experiment

Coffee without principle. A Lisbon lesson for AI.

Agents
What a Lisbon cafe told me about Anthropic's marketplace experiment

Onyx security raises $40M to build an AI control plane for enterprise agents

Your existing security architecture assumes humans review and approve decisions. Agentic systems break this pattern.

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Onyx security raises $40M to build an AI control plane for enterprise agents

EUDI Wallets could be the trust layer agentic AI needs — but the law hasn't caught up yet

Based on analysis of the EU digital identity framework and agentic AI deployment patterns. Original source: Digital Identity in the Age of AI Agents

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EUDI Wallets could be the trust layer agentic AI needs — but the law hasn't caught up yet

AI agents could dissolve the friction that keeps justice expensive

AI agents could structurally reconfigure law

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AI agents could dissolve the friction that keeps justice expensive

What Andrej Karpathy and your legal team both get right about vibe coding

Both sides are solving the same problem from opposite ends, and they're missing each other in the middle.

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What Andrej Karpathy and your legal team both get right about vibe coding

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