Live now: our Harness Engineering Track from AI Engineer World's Fair 2026.
Ports, proofs, kill switches, and what is left of an agent when you remove the model.
Thesis: when an agent breaks in production, the model is rarely the part that failed.
- 2026 State of AI Engineering:
@barrnanas, Amplify Partners
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Separating the Task from the Model:
@MaximeRivest &
@isaacbmiller1, DSPy
- How Anthropic Builds:
@mikeyk, Anthropic
- Tokens Should Have Jobs:
@katelyn_lesse &
@angjiang, Anthropic
- Building the Production Cage for Powerful Domain Agents: Mike Chambers, AWS
- Loophole:
@brendanh0gan, Morgan Stanley
- Every step you take, every call you make:
@vdgiselle, Restate
- Agent Frameworks Considered Harmful:
@remilouf, .txt
- We let an AI agent execute Bash and lived to talk about it: Sarah Sanders, PostHog
- No Memory, No Harness: Kay Malcolm, Oracle
- How we Solved Agent Building:
@andrewqu, Vercel
- Agents Without Code:
@_philschmid, Google DeepMind
- "I've never seen anything scarier than an LLM with tool calls."
@headinthebox