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The Agent Isn't the Hard Part
Every time the agent does something dumb, there's a comforting little prayer: the next model will fix it. Ada and Boris open Chapter 3 by showing why that's backwards — AI coding has compressed three eras into three years (prompt engineering, then context engineering, then harness engineering), and a frontier model that scores 90%+ in a clean test still falls apart on real work. Not because it can't reason, but because it's a brilliant new hire dropped in with no onboarding, no tests, no guardrails. With three receipts — LangChain jumping 13.7 points by changing only the harness, Vercel going…
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