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. ...

April 28, 2026 · 7 min

A Java Performance Quest: Taming Unsafe Code, Embracing Idiomatic Style & Debugging the Linux Kernel

Presenters Jaromir Hamala Source InfoQ podcast 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”? ...

April 27, 2026 · 6 min

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! ...

April 25, 2026 · 5 min

What Do Models Still Suck At? - Peter Gostev, Arena.ai, BullshitBench

Presenters Peter Gostev Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Beyond the Hype: What Large Language Models Still Struggle With 🤯 We’re constantly bombarded with dazzling charts showing the relentless upward march of AI capabilities. Every new model release feels like a giant leap towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), leaving us in a state of awe and perhaps a little anxiety. But are we being too optimistic? Peter Gostev, in a recent talk, dives into the less glamorous side of LLMs, exploring what they don’t do well and why that matters. ...

April 24, 2026 · 4 min

Engineering Production-Grade Multi-Agent Systems in the Cloud | Sandeep Mannapur | Conf42 Cloud 2026

Presenters Sandeep Mannapur Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 Engineering Production-Grade Multi-Agent Systems in the Cloud 🚀 Hey there, tech enthusiasts! Ever built an AI agent demo that worked like a charm, only to see it crumble under pressure in the real world? You’re not alone. Sandeep Bharadwaj, an AI/ML engineer with over 15 years of experience, dives deep into the trenches of building production-grade multi-agent systems in the cloud, sharing the hard-won lessons and the architectural shifts needed to move beyond promising prototypes. ...

April 23, 2026 · 7 min