Hello Context! Harness Engineering for AI-Assisted Development
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The craft of AI-assisted development is evolving. We’ve moved beyond "Prompt Engineering" into the era of "Harness Engineering": a disciplined approach to making AI agents predictable and efficient by replacing hope-based prompting with a rigid, repeatable engineering structure.
In this inaugural lightning talk, nvisia Director, Bryan Coller will demonstrate how to move from "chatting" to "harnessing."
The Live Demo: One Prompt, Three Outcomes
To show how context becomes the ultimate force multiplier, Bryan will run the exact same generic C# prompt to generate "Hello World" against three levels of architectural context:
- Level 1: No context (the baseline)
- Level 2: Project-based context via AGENTS.md & SKILL.md
- Level 3: Hybrid context combining project files with MCP (Model Context Protocol)
You'll leave with a concrete structure you can bring to your own projects immediately!