Is Harness Engineering Software's Last Breath?
The other harness engineers
On July 1, the European Space Agency posted an opening for a Harness Engineer at its technology center in the Netherlands. The job has nothing to do with AI. On a spacecraft, the harness is the bundle of wires that carries power and signals between components, the part that keeps an expensive machine from talking over itself.
Two months later, Pieter Levels looked at Y Combinator's newest batch, saw nothing but harness startups and hardware startups, and concluded that software is mostly dead.
The engineers in Noordwijk would find that split strange. Hardware has always needed a harness. And a harness, in the sense Silicon Valley now uses the word, is software. So the useful question isn't whether software survives the harness era. It's which part of software does.
Disclosure up front: I co-founded Dojo Coding, which builds agent harnesses for companies and trains developers....
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