--- schema: 1 type: video title: >- Beyond the Harness: A Journey Towards Adaptative Engineering - Rajiv Chandegra, Annicha Labs description: >- Building products has been commoditised. As AI models grow more capable, the real opportunity shifts to the hard problems — the big, messy, tangled challenges of the physical and social world. That, after all, is the engineer's true job: to solve problems. But our current paradigm leans on fixed harnesses - predetermined structures imposed on the problem. In a world of complex, shifting systems, that rigidity becomes a liability. We need harnesses that adapt in real time, the way a great leader reads and responds to a changing team. This is adaptive engineering, and it is where the next frontier lies. This talk traces the limits of today's engineering paradigm, draws on complexity science to examine how complex systems behave in the natural and social world, and explores the philosophy and practice of adaptive engineering as what comes next. Speakers: - Rajiv Chandegra (Annicha Labs): Rajiv is a practicing medical doctor and director of Annicha Labs - a firm dedicated to exploring the application of technology for complex challenges in the real world. X/Twitter: @rajivchandegra LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajivchandegra/ --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/qdZzND79mcg-beyond-the-harness-a-journey-towards-adaptive-engineering-rajiv-chandegra-annicha-labs 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/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/beyond-the-harness-a-journey-towards-adaptative-eng-6d250d19c15d markdown: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/video/beyond-the-harness-a-journey-towards-adaptative-eng-6d250d19c15d.md llms: null parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-24T08:33:34.598Z' language: null children: [] videoId: qdZzND79mcg durationSeconds: 2221 publishedAt: '2026-07-07T23:32:02.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 13 endSeconds: 94 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=13' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 105 endSeconds: 217 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=105' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 217 endSeconds: 228 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=217' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 340 endSeconds: 351 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=340' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 351 endSeconds: 451 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=351' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 462 endSeconds: 552 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=462' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 562 endSeconds: 651 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=562' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 662 endSeconds: 763 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=662' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 773 endSeconds: 878 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=773' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 888 endSeconds: 991 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=888' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 991 endSeconds: 1004 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=991' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 1084 endSeconds: 1096 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=1084' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 1096 endSeconds: 1186 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=1096' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 1288 endSeconds: 1390 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=1288' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 1401 endSeconds: 1480 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=1401' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 1491 endSeconds: 1570 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=1491' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 16 text: null startSeconds: 1583 endSeconds: 1686 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=1583' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 17 text: null startSeconds: 1698 endSeconds: 1797 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=1698' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 18 text: null startSeconds: 1807 endSeconds: 1941 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=1807' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 19 text: null startSeconds: 1952 endSeconds: 2080 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=1952' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 20 text: null startSeconds: 2090 endSeconds: 2221 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/qdZzND79mcg?t=2090' heldReason: rights --- # Beyond the Harness: A Journey Towards Adaptative Engineering - Rajiv Chandegra, Annicha Labs Building products has been commoditised. As AI models grow more capable, the real opportunity shifts to the hard problems — the big, messy, tangled challenges of the physical and social world. That, after all, is the engineer's true job: to solve problems. But our current paradigm leans on fixed harnesses - predetermined structures imposed on the problem. In a world of complex, shifting systems, that rigidity becomes a liability. We need harnesses that adapt in real time, the way a great leader reads and responds to a changing team. This is adaptive engineering, and it is where the next frontier lies. This talk traces the limits of today's engineering paradigm, draws on complexity science to examine how complex systems behave in the natural and social world, and explores the philosophy and practice of adaptive engineering as what comes next. Speakers: - Rajiv Chandegra (Annicha Labs): Rajiv is a practicing medical doctor and director of Annicha Labs - a firm dedicated to exploring the application of technology for complex challenges in the real world. X/Twitter: @rajivchandegra LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajivchandegra/ --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/qdZzND79mcg-beyond-the-harness-a-journey-towards-adaptive-engineering-rajiv-chandegra-annicha-labs 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/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/beyond-the-harness-a-journey-towards-adaptative-eng-6d250d19c15d · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks > Missing: no stored document chunks are available.