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Issue 25 · JUN 19, 2026

Operator Playbook·Data & AI

Coding with Agents: The Verify-First Harness

Learning package: video overview, audio deep-dive, and slide deck grounded in the AI Infrastructure research notebook.

By Souriya KhaosangaJune 20265 min read

Coding with Agents: The Verify-First Harness

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Gather → act → verify → repeat is the coding harness loop—not a post-demo checklist
Tool and MCP sprawl raises integration debt faster than inference cost
Verify hierarchy: rules and schema first, visual feedback second, LLM-judge last
Every action should log workflow_id and policy_version for audit replay
Practice the harness on the Agentic AI in Production learn path

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Audience: AI builders, staff engineers, technical leads adopting agentic IDEs
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Who this is for: Engineers and tech leads shipping code with agentic IDEs (Cursor, Claude Code, custom SDK harnesses)—not researchers comparing foundation models.

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