Harness Engineering in 2026

Hosted by Aishwarya Reganti and Kiriti Badam

Tue, Apr 21, 2026

4:30 PM UTC (30 minutes)

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Building Agentic AI Applications with a Problem-First Approach
Aishwarya Naresh Reganti and Kiriti Badam
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What you'll learn

What harness engineering is and why it emerged.

How AI interaction evolved from crafting prompts to designing the full system an agent operates inside.

What it looks like in practice

Real examples of harnesses in production, including how OpenAI's Codex team structured theirs

How to build your first harness this afternoon.

Three pieces you can set up today: an onboarding file, structural constraints, and a  feedback loop.

Why this topic matters

AI agents can write code, read your email, and run workflows on a schedule. Getting    them to do it reliably is a systems problem. Harness engineering is how you build the   constraints, feedback loops, and infrastructure that wrap around an agent so it     performs consistently. In 30 minutes, we walk through what a harness is, why it  matters, and how to start building one.

You'll learn from

Aishwarya Reganti

AI Advisor, Founder, Ex-AWS

Kiriti Badam

Applied AI Lead | Ex-Google, Samsung

Previously at

MIT
University of Oxford
Google
Amazon Web Services
OpenAI

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