We are in uncharted territory right now. Agentic development is hurtling at us like the next comet and the pressures of adopting AI are real. Getting it wrong leads to even more work to clean up through code mounting code reviews, AI slop and rework. It’s not a bad day in the office, it’s a bad year.

This talk will dive into detail of two key things to help prevent this. Incident Economics and Post Mortems to understand the types of metrics, signals and data you need to understand about how building in your organization isn’t working.

Taking the next step, then we look at Harness Engineering and the tools/frameworks and ideas that need to surround your AI agents, with this context, to make it work the right way. Putting these ideas together should help your AI building experience move more towards a nice peaceful vacation, than a chaotic spring break.