Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world
By Ryan Lopopolo, Member of the Technical Staff
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Summary
This post describes a failure pattern where engineers in new senior roles overextend, go silent for weeks, and spiral into burnout or termination.
The author advises dropping a level to do grunt work and support teammates, shifting from outcome-based to momentum-based effort. The core lesson is that daily incremental reliability builds the trust needed to earn bigger responsibilities over time.
