Why it matters
A from-scratch coding-agent talk gets into the harness and session-format decisions that quietly determine what a coding agent costs to run per session.
The tokenmaxxing angle
Owning your coding-agent harness means owning every context-window, session-persistence and model-call decision — precisely the knobs that set per-session token cost instead of inheriting someone else's defaults.
From the organizers
Alex Kesling, CTO of Empathic, covers writing a Claude Code-style coding agent in Rust, including agent harnesses and session formats; hosted at sponsor Materialize in NYC.