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Agents for Everything Else — swyx
Presenters swyx Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 AI Engineers: Building the Future, One Agent at a Time 🤖✨ The world of work is rapidly evolving, and at the forefront of this transformation are AI engineers. Swyx, co-founder of the AI Engineer conference, shares his journey and insights on how AI is not just a tool for coding, but a powerful force for augmenting human productivity and reimagining business operations. The Evolution of AI Engineer Conferences 🚀 Swyx has been a consistent voice at the AI Engineer conference, tracking the seismic shifts in AI adoption. ...
Replacing 12K LoC with a 200 LoC Skill — David Gomes, Cursor
Presenters David Gomes Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 🚀 From 15,000 Lines of Code to Markdown: The Future of Agentic Programming In the world of software development, we often equate progress with more code, more features, and more complexity. But what if the secret to building better tools isn’t writing more code, but deleting it? At a recent talk, David Gomes shared a radical transformation within Cursor, the AI-powered code editor. By leveraging the power of LLMs and Markdown, the team managed to replace a massive, complex feature with a few simple instructions. ...
Enabling Non-Engineers to Build AI Agents & Apps | Retool CEO
Presenters David Hsu Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia Source Product School podcast Building the Future: How Retool is Navigating the AI Revolution and Redefining Internal Tools 🚀 In the fast-paced world of tech, staying ahead means not just reacting to change, but actively shaping it. David Hsu, CEO of Retool, joins us to share his insights on how his company is not only adapting to the AI revolution but also leading the charge in transforming how businesses build and operate. From strategic pivots to the nitty-gritty of product development, David offers a candid look at the challenges and triumphs of building a company in the age of AI. ...
A Java Performance Quest: Taming Unsafe Code, Embracing Idiomatic Style & Debugging the Linux Kernel
Presenters Jaromir Hamala Source InfoQ Unlocking Peak Performance: A Deep Dive into QuestDB, Java, and the Tinker’s Mindset with Jaromir Hamala 🚀💡 Are you navigating the tricky waters of moving AI from a proof-of-concept to reliable production? You are absolutely not alone! Many engineering teams face this exact challenge. Senior engineers and architects at events like QCon AI Boston are already sharing how they’ve made that shift, revealing scaling patterns, lessons learned, and what they’d do differently. But what if the core of your high-performance system is built on a technology many still consider “slow”? ...
AgentCraft: Putting the Orc in Orchestration — Ido Salomon
Presenters Ido Salomon Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Level Up Your AI Agents: How Gaming Wisdom is Revolutionizing Human-Agent Collaboration 🎮🚀 Good morning, London! Ido Salomon, creator of Agent Craft, MC I, and co-maintainer of MC apps, recently unveiled a groundbreaking approach to scaling AI agent collaboration. We all know individual agents are amazing, but what happens when you try to scale up to 10, 20, or even 100 agents? The dream of 100x amazingness often hits a wall. Why? Because we become the bottleneck. Orchestrating dozens of “reckless employees” – as Ido humorously puts it – isn’t typically an engineer’s job. We need new skills, but these skills aren’t entirely new; they’ve been hiding in plain sight, especially for gamers! ...