Companies are unbundling coding assistants into internal agents, gateways, private inference, tools, and governance. Real deployments show why control often moves in-house before frontier inference does.
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A reliable harness must optimize the repository for agent navigation and move verification from natural-language instructions into executable, independent, and measurable mechanisms.
A guided tour of everything that happens behind a single command: how uv prepares the environment, how the FastAPI CLI finds your app, why Uvicorn is required, what ASGI is, and how auto-reload actually works.
AI-assisted programming broke the link between how sophisticated software looks and how well its authors understand it. A practical test for spotting comprehension debt in your own work.
Loop engineering is the new phrase in AI coding circles. Here is what is real, what is exaggerated, and how senior engineers should think about agent loops.