The power of AI, in the palm of my hand (a.k.a Harness Engineering)

What the talk is about Ever found yourself yelling “You are a senior software engineer” at your Agent. Or feeling like an AI babysitter? Well, Harness Engineering takes away the rowing and lets you focus on steering the important decisions. We used this at IG, a multi billion dollar global trading platform, to build a reconciliation-grade system of record. We'll go deep on what it takes to productionize a harness — making it reliable through determinism, and adding observability to optimise time and cost as it scales across an org. Outline • Journey so far, ChatGpt to now • Where do single agents fail • Harness v1 • Using it in IG for planning to implementation • Factory of tasks • Harness Reliability • Observability and adoption • Questions