Harness Engineering: Building Reliable AI Systems

AI models are getting smarter. The hard part is everything around them. Agents need context. They need evaluation. They need guardrails, observability, testing, and workflows that help them operate reliably in production. In short, they need a harness. Join Steve Yegge and Dru Knox for a fireside conversation on the emerging discipline of Harness Engineering —the systems and practices that make AI agents effective, trustworthy, and useful in real-world software development. Together, they'll explore how engineering teams can move beyond experimentation and build AI-powered systems that are ready for production, followed by audience Q&A and community networking. Agenda 18:00 Venue opens, drinks & networking 18:30 Fireside Chat: Harness Engineering: Building Reliable AI Systems Guy Podjarny & Steve Yegge, facilitated by Tessl 19:15 Audience Q&A 19:45 Networking, drinks & conversation 21:00 Event close Speakers Steve Yegge, Advisor & Consultant Steve Yegge is ex-Geoworks, ex-Amazon, ex-Google, ex-Grab, and ex-Sourcegraph, with over 30 years of tech industry experience, 40 years coding…