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Harness engineering: the skill that took over from prompt engineering

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In 2024 the skill everyone talked about was prompting: find the right words and the model does the right thing. In 2025 it was context: hand the model the right files and docs, and the exact wording matters less. In 2026, when an agent fails, it is rarely the wording or the context that let it down…

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  1. 2026-10-26 19:17 · DEV Community — AI
    Harness engineering: the skill that took over from prompt engineering

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