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Your Agent Isn't Too Autonomous. It's Too Loud.
Everyone chases autonomy. The harder problem is proactivity: deciding whether and when to act, with silence as a real choice. Three levels, a 42% ceiling.
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Harness engineering for engineering teams. How to configure Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Aider so they understand your codebase, your conventions, and your deploy process. Patterns that hold up in production, written from real engagements.
Everyone chases autonomy. The harder problem is proactivity: deciding whether and when to act, with silence as a real choice. Three levels, a 42% ceiling.
Models reason. Runtimes wrap them. Harness engineering, the third pillar, is where teams quietly succeed or fail with AI coding. Six layers, templates.