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. ...

April 30, 2026 · 6 min

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. ...

April 30, 2026 · 4 min

Software Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever — Matt Pocock

Presenters Matt Pocock Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 🚀 Why Software Fundamentals are Your Superpower in the Age of AI Do you feel like your hard-earned engineering skills are losing their value in a world dominated by LLMs? Matt Pocock has a comforting, yet provocative message for you: software fundamentals matter now more than they ever have. While many believe we are entering a specs-to-code era where we can simply ignore the implementation, the reality is much messier. If you treat code as a disposable byproduct, you fall into the trap of vibe coding. You run the compiler, get garbage, run it again, and get even worse garbage. ...

April 23, 2026 · 5 min

The End of Apps — Kitze, Sizzy.co

Presenters Kitaborovskis Sizzy Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Hey, tech enthusiasts and productivity hackers! Ever feel like you’re wrestling with your to-do list more than actually doing things? You’re definitely not alone. Our speaker, K, recently celebrated his 34th birthday by sharing his incredible, decades-long journey through the chaotic, frustrating, and ultimately inspiring world of productivity and personal AI agents. Get ready for a wild ride! The Relentless Pursuit of Productivity: A Personal Odyssey 🚀 K’s quest began at the tender age of 10, when he created his very first to-do list in a notebook. Since then, he has been in a constant struggle to conquer productivity, always feeling dissatisfied with existing solutions. “Is anyone else forever unhappy with to-do apps?” he asked, and a resounding chorus of agreement confirmed his shared pain. From the early days of Todoist and similar apps, K felt a deep need for something more. ...

April 23, 2026 · 8 min

How AI is changing Software Engineering: A Conversation with Gergely Orosz, @pragmaticengineer

Presenters Gergely Orosz Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Token Maximizing: The New (and Bizarre) Metric in Big Tech 🤯 Ever feel like you’re drowning in metrics? Well, buckle up, because the tech world has a new, and frankly, wild one: token maximizing. Gergely Orosz, the brilliant mind behind The Pragmatic Engineer, dropped some serious insights on this phenomenon, and it’s a story that’s both hilarious and a little bit terrifying. ...

April 21, 2026 · 7 min