The hard part of AI coding isn’t generating code — it’s controlling quality, safety, and drift. Drawing from OpenAI’s Codex case study, Stripe’s Minions project, and real-world experience, Kaushik and Iury break down harness engineering: the five pillars for shaping an agent’s environment, and what it looks like when teams build custom harnesses from scratch.
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AGENTS.md is becoming the common language for AI coding tools, but keeping repo rules, personal rules, and tool-specific files in sync is still messy. In this episode, Kaushik and Iury break down the sync problem, compare their own setups, and unpack what the latest AGENTS.md research actually says.
