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Why Trying Harder Fails and the Name for the Fix
Last episode named the wall — this time, why your instincts for getting past it all fail. Ada and Boris dig into why longer prompts, fresh sessions, and micromanaging the AI don't work: each one treats a structural problem like a communication problem. The real story is that the agent isn't broken — it's a stateless predictor missing the infrastructure *around* it (memory, verification, architecture), and output quality is set by the environment, not the model. That discipline has a name — harness engineering — and it's what the rest of the show is about.From Chapter 1 of *Harness Engineering…
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