Harness Engineering Deep Dive

Rajistics - data science, AI, and machine learning · Beginner ·💻 AI-Assisted Coding ·2mo ago

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The harness for coding agents matters for performance, flexibility, and control. Join me into a deep dive into harnesses. 0:00 — Why Coding Harnesses Matter 1:46 — From Fine-Tuning to Context Engineering to Harnesses 2:22 — What Is a Coding Harness? 3:44 — Same Model, Different Harness, Different Performance 6:52 — Retrieval for Coding Agents 10:35 — Context and Memory 17:02 — Skills as Durable Agent Memory 21:29 — Loops, Tool Use, and Feedback 27:37 — Agent Orchestration and Multi-Agent Tradeoffs 31:08 — What Will Still Matter Long-Term Blog post: https://rajivshah.com/blog/harness-engineering.html Github Repo - https://github.com/rajshah4/harness-engineering Harness Engineering Tutorial: https://github.com/rajshah4/learn-openhands-harness ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ★ Rajistics Social Media » ● Home Page: http://www.rajivshah.com ● LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajistics/ ● Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rajistics/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

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The harness for coding agents matters for performance, flexibility, and control. Join me into a deep dive into harnesses. 0:00 — Why Coding Harnesses Matter 1:46 — From Fine-Tuning to Context Engineering to Harnesses 2:22 — What Is a Coding Harness? 3:44 — Same Model, Different Harness, Different Performance 6:52 — Retrieval for Coding Agents 10:35 — Context and Memory 17:02 — Skills as Durable Agent Memory 21:29 — Loops, Tool Use, and Feedback 27:37 — Agent Orchestration and Multi-Agent Tradeoffs 31:08 — What Will Still Matter Long-Term Blog post: https://rajivshah.com/blog/harness-engineering.html Github Repo - https://github.com/rajshah4/harness-engineering Harness Engineering Tutorial: https://github.com/rajshah4/learn-openhands-harness ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ★ Rajistics Social Media » ● Home Page: http://www.rajivshah.com ● LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajistics/ ● Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rajistics/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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Chapters (10)

Why Coding Harnesses Matter
1:46 From Fine-Tuning to Context Engineering to Harnesses
2:22 What Is a Coding Harness?
3:44 Same Model, Different Harness, Different Performance
6:52 Retrieval for Coding Agents
10:35 Context and Memory
17:02 Skills as Durable Agent Memory
21:29 Loops, Tool Use, and Feedback
27:37 Agent Orchestration and Multi-Agent Tradeoffs
31:08 What Will Still Matter Long-Term
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