Next SF Event
Code Engineering: From Coding Agents to Software Factories
Seth Karten · Prime Intellect
Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Harness with Swarm Communication
Ben Holmes · Warp
Building a self-improving software factory
Sydney Runkle · LangChain
Building agents that work like coding agents
Andrey Risukhin · Factory
Reducing Coding Harness Latency with the Software Factory
Previous Event
The largest technical side event of the AI Engineer World's Fair, and the launch of Agent Engineering HQ.
Harness Engineering: State of the Art in Agent Harnesses
A deep technical evening on the agent harness layer: planning loops, context management, verification mechanisms, error recovery, and execution runtimes. The venue reached capacity, with attendees following from hallways and doorways, and the event launched the Agent Engineering HQ series.
Dat Ngo · Arize AI
The Harness Is the Product: How to Build, Break, and Evaluate
Arun Kumar · RapidFire AI
Stop Tuning One Harness at a Time!
Myeongsoo Kim · AWS AI Labs
Harness Optimization Through Live Traffic Analysis
Linghua Jin · CocoIndex
Fresh Context for Coding Agents
Supported By
Our San Francisco events are made possible by partners building the tools agent engineers actually use.
Interested in sponsoring a San Francisco event? email the organisers
San Francisco audience
Who comes to Agent Engineering HQ
An engineering-heavy room: big tech, AI labs and the startups building agent products. Company mix resolved from the addresses members register with.
AI companies in the room
52 of the companies represented are building AI products as their core business.
Where they work
A selection of the organisations represented at recent events.
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