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 Guy Podjarny and Steve Yegge 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 total.
Guy Podjarny, Founder & CEO at Tessl
Guy Podjarny is the founder of Tessl, and previously founded Snyk. Tessl is reimagining software development for the AI era, helping shape AI Native Development. Snyk created and leads the Developer Security category, and is now a multi-billion dollar company with over 1,000 employees. Guy was previously CTO at Akamai (following its acquisition of his first startup), is an active angel investor, and co-hosts of the AI Native Dev podcast.
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