Harness engineering: planning is coding

Are we heading toward a bizarre future where your engineering salary is paid in AI compute tokens instead of cash? Andrew and Ben tackle the latest tech industry shakeups, starting with Meta's acquisition of Moltbook and the controversial idea of making inference limits a core employee benefit. They also break down Charlie Guo's harness engineering playbook, the growing pains behind recent AWS AI-driven outages, and the toxic pressure to constantly run dozens of autonomous agents. Finally, they wrap up by sharing their own agentic weekend projects and debating the catastrophic risks of vibe-coding your laptop's file permissions.

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• Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation
• The Emerging "Harness Engineering" Playbook
• Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts
• “A spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools”, right on schedule
• Every minute you aren't running 69 agents, you are falling behind

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