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Harness Engineering: AI's Latest Fix for Agents That Keep Crashing

78% of enterprise AI agents bombed in production last year. Enter 'harness engineering'—the buzz du jour claiming to strap safety belts on rogue bots.

AI agent strapped into a safety harness amid chaotic code and guardrails

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • 78% of AI agents fail in production without strong harnesses.
  • It's repackaged reliability engineering—consultants' new goldmine.
  • Open-source will commoditize it fast; don't overinvest yet.

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Aisha Patel
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Aisha Patel

Former ML engineer turned writer. Covers computer vision and robotics with a practitioner perspective.

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Originally reported by Towards AI

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