Loop & Harness EngineeringOpenAI (Ryan Lopopolo)OpenAI

Harness engineering

Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

Why it matters

An internal product of about 1 million lines written entirely by Codex; over 5 months, 3–7 engineers merged about 1,500 PRs

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Officialopenai.comhttps://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/

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