Agent Harness Engineering: The Next Big Thing?

Every few months, the frontier shifts and the language catches up a beat later.
Here’s where we’ve been:
•⁠ ⁠2023 — Prompting
•⁠ ⁠2024 — Prompt Engineering
•⁠ ⁠2025 — Context Engineering
•⁠ ⁠2026 — Harness Engineering

So what’s actually changed?

In this session, Gary C. Tate will unpack what’s emerging beneath the surface and how teams are beginning to move from isolated AI tools toward more structured, coordinated systems. Rather than focusing on frameworks, this session centers on how real decisions are being made under real constraints, as organizations begin to design and manage agent-based workflows.

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