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AI Coding Shifts from Prompts to Context to Harness

What happened: AI coding has moved through three stages—prompt engineering, context engineering, and now harness engineering—where the harness is a structured framework that controls AI agents. This shift was a key topic at the AI Ops Conference held July 30, 2026.

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AI Coding Shifts from Prompts to Context to Harness

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