The Harness Owns the Work; the Accepted Artifact Closes the Loop

Agentic engineering is moving from one prompt to a persistent harness that manages environments, cost, review, release, and maintenance.

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The output metric is shifting from model calls to accepted work: merged changes, shipped artifacts, and maintained systems, with review burden and vendor claims kept visible.

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Agentic engineering is moving from one prompt to a persistent harness that manages environments, cost, review, release, and maintenance.

New Runtime reading: The output metric is shifting from model calls to accepted work: merged changes, shipped artifacts, and maintained systems, with review burden and vendor claims kept visible.

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Agentic engineering is moving from one prompt to a persistent harness that manages environments, cost, review, release, and maintenance.

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