COMMUNITY PICK · 3 NOVEMBER 2026
Watch out: more recycled 'free courses' on harness, loop and graph engineering
At least six accounts posted 'free courses' on harness, loop and graph engineering credited to Google, Andrew Ng or an 'OpenAI engineer'. They follow the same pattern of re-uploaded, re-captioned talks we've flagged since late October, and one is a re-post of an August video. A more useful line came from builder @Vtrivedy10, who argued that harness engineering is mostly a way of getting the right context to the model, so the context window is what you should design around; that's his opinion.
Why it mattersDon't share these 'courses' with your community. If you want to learn the topic, start by writing down what goes into the model's context at each step of one of your own workflows.
Curated by Sara Simeone as part of our human editorial coverage. The original sources are linked below; curation is distinct from a Hype or Fact? assessment.
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