https://video.ut0pia.org/videos/watch/c3202c3f-dfa2-431f-8a6c-fe9823732751 Most harness discussion is a reprise of Context Engineering from last summer. But it is not 2025 anymore: we live in a Claude Code world, and the best way to think about a harness is Context Engineering + Coding Agents = Harness. Harnesses are a powerful developer experience because of planning mode, parallel subagents, skills, background tasks, and more. But they do not stop there. Teams are putting harnesses in a box, making them listen to external events, giving them channels to ping users, and a heartbeat. They are becoming Claws. The argument is that harnesses want to become claws: more present in collaboration workflows and available while users are away. Sam proposes Steinberger's law, a spinoff of Zawinski's law: every harness will expand until it becomes a Claw. Speaker: Sam Bhagwat — Founder and CEO, Mastra Sam is the co-founder and CEO of Mastra, the TypeScript agent framework; author of Principles of Building AI Agents; and previously a Gatsby co-founder. X/Twitter: https://x.com/calcsam LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sambhagwat/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:37:38 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.ut0pia.org https://video.ut0pia.org/lazy-static/avatars/0287a09a-aae7-4840-9843-b416426e7046.webp https://video.ut0pia.org/videos/watch/c3202c3f-dfa2-431f-8a6c-fe9823732751 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.ut0pia.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.