CascadiaJS 2026 · Agents are Awesome

Own your harness.

The model is not the agent. The agent is the model inside a harness, operating inside context. These are the receipts, tools, and people behind that talk.

Joel Hooks

Joel Hooks

Built egghead. Working on Badass, AI Hero, joelclaw, Pi harnesses, and small weird clouds.

Harness engineeringEverything around the model: prompts, tools, context, loops, observability.
People threadSmall handful of builders who shaped the story and the taste.
Attention taxSwarms do not remove coordination. They move it.