The power of AI, in the palm of my hand (a.k.a Harness Engineering)

What the talk is about
Ever found yourself yelling “You are a senior software engineer” at your Agent. Or feeling like an AI babysitter ? Well, Harness Engineering takes away the rowing and lets you focus on steering the important decisions.

We used this at IG, a multi billion dollar global trading platform, to build a reconciliation-grade system of record. We'll go deep on what it takes to productionize a harness — making it reliable through determinism, and adding observability to optimise time and cost as it scales across an org.

Outline

• Journey so far, ChatGpt to now
• Where do single agents fail
• Harness v1
• Using it in IG for planning to implementation
• Factory of tasks
• Harness Reliability
• Observability and adoption
• Questions