alt Hacker NewsI’m definitely on the deterministic code train as well. All of my success for long running tasks has been around wrapping the agentic harness (cc, codex-cli, etc.) in a deterministic workflow with deterministic gates. We need a name for this outer layer. In my mind that is the true harness because it constrains the agents failure mode. I think flow engineering has been proposed. Maybe it’s the agentic exoskeleton?
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simonreiff • today at 3:47 PM
I call it tool-response engineering -- the tool-response JSON object itself and any content supplied, plus the available mechanisms after an initial tool call has been made.
ardatasci • today at 3:40 PM
I believe they call it "loop engineering"
I propose Channel Engineering, and will be releasing a paper with the full reasoning soon. The TLDR is that it is a communication channel between a Human and AI, mediated by a deterministic agent loop process. That loop is in control of the channel and needs to own it completely to solve for the reliability of the delivered outcomes in ways that can be concretely measured.