Autonomous Systems: Building Infrastructure That Thinks and Adapts

Talk 1: Agent Harnesses as Distributed Systems
Long-running agent harnesses are the subject of a growing body of work. A shared set of primitives keeps recurring: deterministic orchestration around probabilistic actors, durable shared state that outlives context windows, and verification gates that catch hallucinated progress before it compounds. Drawing on a year of building an agentic harness that generates and optimizes LLM inference runtimes for Arm hardware from cloud to edge, we walk through how these primitives cash out in practice: an immutable experiment ledger with promotion reasons…

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