Harness Engineering Is the New Software Engineering

For most of computing history, "software engineer" meant one thing: a person who writes code. You sat down, you typed, and the value you created scaled roughly with how fast and well you could think in syntax. That era is ending. Not because writing code is going away (code still has to get written), but because the bottleneck has moved. Increasingly, the most valuable engineers aren't the ones writing the code themselves. They're the ones building and maintaining the systems that let AI agents