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Following the trend
The directional arguments, not the line-by-line implementation. Here is what’s directly relevant to you across the three conferences.
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- Watch the "one all-purpose agent plus MCP" path get taken to its breaking point, then get a compositional alternativeJustin Schroeder · AI Engineer World's FairFor · Enterprise agent architects / AI cost decision-makersAgentContextAI Product2 min on screen31 min totalWorks as a podcast
- Co-founder swyx previews AIE 2026's five vertical bets and how to get your ticket money backswyx · AI Engineer World's FairFor · Engineers planning to attend / CTOs / VPs of AIAgentAI Product2 min on screen18 min totalWorks as a podcast
- Treat the LLM as 'culture dot zip': programming is turning from an industrial process into prose production, and slop already has a cure — editing.Paul Ford · Cursor CompileFor · Engineers and engineering leaders / People designing AI products and toolsAI CodingAI Product2 min on screen12 min totalPart listen, part watch
- AI speeds up finding bugs and writing them at once; his answer isn't patching, it's replacing the foundation.Jack Cable · AI Engineer World's FairFor · Security lead / Infrastructure leadAI CodingAgent3 min on screen20 min totalPart listen, part watch
- The talk is itself an AI game: runtime decision-making running live, and an NPC match that plays out differently every timeDavid Hoe · AI Engineer World's FairFor · Indie AI game developers / Content platform product leadsAI ProductAgentAI Coding4 min on screen18 min totalPart listen, part watch
- The OpenAI Codex team breaks it down: from watching ten terminal windows to talking to one long-running manager agent.Romain Huet · AI Engineer World's FairFor · Engineers working many things in parallel / Engineering team leadsAgentAI CodingAI ProductContext5 min on screen25 min totalPart listen, part watch
- A billion tokens in: even the strongest agent finishes only one project-scale task in fourRishi Desai · AI Engineer World's FairFor · Agent eval designers / Engineers picking a coding agentAgentAI CodingEvals5 min on screen13 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Uses a neural network to invent 1,024 new human-readable symbols from scratch — arguing that notation itself is part of intelligence.Linus Lee · Cursor CompileFor · AI interface designers / Representation-learning researchersAI Product6 min on screen17 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Unpacks how the word "AI" ends up governing us, and shows practitioners how to reclaim their agency over designing technology.Alane Suhr · Cursor CompileFor · AI practitioners / Technical decision-makersAI ProductEvals6 min on screen15 min totalNeeds your eyes
- Musician RAC, twenty years in: once AI makes competence free, your point of view is the only asset that can't be averaged.Noah Levin · Figma ConfigFor · The anxious designer / The independent creatorAI ProductAI Coding9 min on screen27 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Cursor's CEO on the agent-first shift, plus a first look at a frontier model trained from scratchMichael Truell · Cursor CompileFor · Tooling decision-makers / Agent workflow designersAgentAI CodingAI Product14 min on screen27 min totalNeeds your eyes
- Five product lines, one question: what should a design tool be in the age of AI?Dave · Figma ConfigFor · Design engineers / Product designersDesign-to-CodeAgentAI CodingAI Product25 min on screen72 min totalNeeds your eyes