Feasgar Math, a chairdean!
Good afternoon, friends!
Fàilte gu mo tiodhlach-spèis air...
Welcome to my presentation air...
innleadaireachd beartaich.
harness engineering.
Is mise
Cory Brown
I am Cory Brown
Tha mi innleadair bathair-bog,
I am a Software Engineer,
agus manaidsear...
and manager...
aig companaidh leis an ainm Voze.
at a company called Voze.
Tha beagan Gaidhlig agam fhathast,
I speak a little Gaighlig too,
agus tha mi a' smaoineachadh gu bheil me a fàs beagan nas fheàrr.
and I think I am getting a little better.
Tapadh leibh airson leigeil leam a bhith a’ cleachdadh còmhla ribh thairis air na beagan bhliadhnachan a dh’fhalbh.
Thank you for letting me practice with you these last few years.
A-nis, air adhart!
And now, onward!
Harness
Engineering
For Me
For Us
What even is?
The Model
- huge function
- defined by billions of numeric parameters
- trained on text
- predicts the next token
Everything “intelligent” it does—reasoning, style, coding help—is emergent behavior from that next-token prediction.
What emerges is incredible!
Ground breaking!
Revolutionary!
But it's not intellegence.
It is raw,
chaotic power.
Under-directed
Shape the
ouput
What do I mean?
Mirthful
Metaphore
Amusing
Alegory
Playful
Parable
Artificial
Wind
Demo
Time
Naïve Approach
Bigger Naïve Approach
Harness
Harness
Harness
Harness
OpenAW
Harness
So that's
a Harness
Layers
https://medium.com/@shanewang199512/2026-agent-harness-the-game-changer-for-ai-applications-if-youre-not-the-model-you-re-the-e49722a23967
Personal Harness
~/AGENTS.md, hooks, rules
Corporate Harness
Skills, MCP, Lints, Tests
Product Harness
Codex, Claude Code
Model Harness
ChatGPT, Claude
LLM
Personal Harness
~/AGENTS.md, hooks, rules
Corporate Harness
Skills, MCP, Lints, Tests
Product Harness
Codex, Claude Code
Model Harness
ChatGPT, Claude
LLM
80/20
product
gardening
Improving CLAUDE.md
CSS skills
If it can be linted,
it should be linted.
If it should be tested,
it must be tested.
employ deterministic guardrails with hooks.
AGENTS.md
Skills.
Rules.
Build
your
own
tools.
Tapadh Leibh!
Thank you!
Artificial Wind
By Cory Brown
