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Giving an intern access to your wiki, a company laptop, and a notebook makes them more helpful. It doesn't make them a senior engineer. That's how Kenneth G. (Ken) Mages, EngineeringX member, thinks about what MCP, RAG, and memory actually do for an LLM. The tools got better. The judgment didn't. The expensive mistake right now is building a platform strategy around a capability that doesn't exist yet, and assuming better plumbing will get you there. He has a simple test before you greenlight any AI proposal: Can a human solve this by recognizing patterns, or does it need real reasoning? What's the cost of being wrong? Could a SQL query just... do this? If your strategy can't survive those questions, you're betting on the lab. Better to bet on your own engineering.

Engineering decisions made today will shape how the world operates tomorrow. Anusha Dharmalingam, VP Engineering at athenahealth reminded us that the AI transformation is not happening to engineering. It is happening through it, and it will touch all of us. Harness is proud to support the community leading that charge. https://lnkd.in/gUReGZdC

We hosted some of the sharpest minds in engineering for the DevEx Summit. If you missed it live, the sessions are on-demand now. https://lnkd.in/gtvcdy6f

Speakers from Cursor, United Airlines, Box, and EQ Bank are joining us at FlagShip 2026 on June 17 to talk feature management, experimentation, and releasing AI changes with confidence. Come learn from the people actually doing it. 🎟️ https://bit.ly/4eZbP6Q

Airports, hospitals, financial systems, and nearly every Fortune 100 company depend on DigiCert. When they committed to a four-nines SLA, their entire software delivery process had to change. ✅ Custom scripts replaced by one governed platform. ✅ New global regions that took weeks now live in minutes. Watch how they made 99.99% reliability the standard: https://bit.ly/4wCZP12

Why does an AI feel so capable with just a bash shell but fall apart with 100 REST endpoints? It comes down to interface design. Composable, self-describing, and minimal interfaces are what make agents actually work in production, and they're the same properties that made Unix last 50 years. If you're building agent infrastructure and wondering why your setup feels brittle, this framing might help.

Over the past weekend, we found ourselves moving between meetup rooms, panel stages, booth conversations, and hallway discussions covering everything from AI-driven software delivery and DevSecOps to platform engineering and operating systems at scale. It was great connecting with developers, founders, engineering leaders, investors, and ecosystem builders across Dine with DevOps by Technophiles India, MUG Bangalore, and the PanIIT Bangalore Summit hosted by PanIIT Alumni India. The weekend brought plenty of sharp questions, thoughtful debates, and grounded conversations. Exactly the kind of ecosystem engagement that pushes ideas forward.

Devs are producing more but they're also reviewing more. How does your team handle the code review overhead that comes with AI? Drop a comment. https://bit.ly/4eRTjgD

Boston, we’re bringing Soundcheck to Tech Week. Harness and Sentry are taking over Headroom HiFi at Trillium Brewing for an evening of vinyl DJ sets, rooftop hangs, food, drinks, and interactive music experiences with teenage engineering and GOOD TASTE Records. 📍 50 Thomson Pl, Boston MA 🗓️ May 27 | 6–9 PM Register here: https://bit.ly/49FJmiO

When AI writes 20,000 lines of code, who's actually reviewing it? 🤔 Gene Kim and Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal dig into why the volume of AI-generated code is outpacing the tools we use to validate it, and what engineering leaders need to do right now. Watch on-demand from our DevEx Summit: https://lnkd.in/gtvcdy6f