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DESCRIPTION:# About the meet-up - Agent harnesses & small models in produc
 tion\nTwo years ago it was prompt engineering\, then context engineering\,
  then the harness. Then the loop. Now the graph — and state that has to 
 survive a crash at step 40 of 60. The Fifth Elephant Hyderabad meet-up is 
 a practitioner view of what is ceremony and what is real.\n\n📅 Saturday
 \, 5 September\n🕑 10:15 AM - 12:45 PM\n📍 Hyderabad - to be announced
  shortly\n\n🔴 Live stream available exclusively for [Fifth Elephant mem
 bers](https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant#memberships). Free in-person seats
  for everyone else.\n\n# Agent harnesses & small models in production\nThe
  abstractions keep shifting — prompt\, context\, harness\, loop\, graph 
 — and each wave arrives with a flood of posts from people selling a fram
 ework. It takes about a year to find out what actually held.\n\nMeanwhile 
 more teams are training and serving their own small models\, and not all o
 f them sit inside an agent. Sometimes it's cost\, sometimes it's data that
  can't leave the building.\n\nSome questions on the table at this edition:
 \n* Which agent abstractions are earning their keep\, and which are ceremo
 ny?\n* Is a tuned 8B good enough for your problem — how would you know?\
 n* What does it take for state to survive a crash at step 40 of 60?\n* Wha
 t made inference cheap or fast enough to actually ship?\n\n**Sessions will
  be announced 25 August — watch this space.**\n\n# 📣 Call for Proposa
 ls — open now\nHave a story on agent harnesses\, evals\, or small-model 
 deployment in production? Submit before **25 August**.\n👉 [Submit an ab
 stract](https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/hyd-meetup-cfp/sub)\n\n# Editori
 al team\nCurated by **Chaitanya Sangani** and **Madhusudhan Sambojhu**\, (
 meet-up editors) with reviewers Srix Sriramkumar\, Prasun Anand\, and gues
 t reviewer Raghotham Sripadraj — practitioners across AI engineering\, s
 mall language models\, and the Fifthel/Rootconf community.\n\n# 💡 Why y
 ou should attend\n- Real production lessons on agent harnesses\, evals\, a
 nd small-model deployment — not launch-post slides.\n- Connect with prac
 titioners across dev tooling\, healthcare\, legal\, financial services\, r
 egional languages\, and enterprise search.\n- Walk away with a clearer rea
 d on which agent abstractions are worth adopting\, and which aren't yet.\n
 \n## 🧭 How to attend\n- **In-person participation is free — just clic
 k Register to confirm your seat.**\n- Remote participation available for F
 ifth Elephant members. 👉 Get your membership from https://hasgeek.com/f
 ifthelephant#memberships\n\n## 📞 Contact\n📧 Email: info@hasgeek.com\
 n📱 Call/WhatsApp: +91 7676332020
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