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  https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/ Speaker info: -
  https://x.com/_lopopolo - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlopopolo/ -
  https://github.com/lopopolo With a special post keynote Q&A with Vibhu Sapra
  (https://x.com/vibhuuuus), cohost for https://latent.space/p/harness-eng ---
  Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources
  on this talk's official AIE page:
  https://ai.engineer/talks/am_oeAoUhew-harness-engineering Join our upcoming AI
  Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai,
  November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE
  in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney,
  December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney ---
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# Harness Engineering: How to Build Software When Humans Steer, Agents Execute — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI

https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/ Speaker info: - https://x.com/\_lopopolo - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlopopolo/ - https://github.com/lopopolo With a special post keynote Q\&A with Vibhu Sapra (https://x.com/vibhuuuus), cohost for https://latent.space/p/harness-eng --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/am_oeAoUhew-harness-engineering Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney ---

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/watch/am_oeAoUhew · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md)

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