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Extreme Harness Engineering for Token Billionaires: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code, 0% human review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI Frontier & Symphony

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

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Use Long Explicit Prompts To Avoid Babysitting

  • Give agents long, strict instructions and explicit success criteria so humans do not have to babysit them while they work.
  • Ryan Lopopolo links this to disposable code and reruns, arguing that reliability rises when deployment conditions are tightly specified upfront.
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