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Presenters Jacob Lauritzen Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Beyond the Chatbox: Why Complex AI Agents Need More Than Just Conversation 🚀 If you have ever tasked an AI agent with a long-running, complex project—like drafting a legal contract—you have likely hit the “context rot” wall. You watch the agent spin up sub-agents, search the web, and write files, only for it to stumble on a minor detail, hallucinate, or lose the plot entirely 30 minutes later. ...

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. ...

Presenters Tuomas Artman Gergely Orosz Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 🚀 Beyond the Feature Factory: Why AI Makes “Taste” the Ultimate Competitive Advantage In a world where AI can generate code in seconds, the biggest risk to software isn’t moving too slowly—it’s moving too fast in the wrong direction. 📉 In a recent conversation between Tuomas Artman (Co-founder of Linear) and Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer), the duo explored how the “shipping frenzy” triggered by AI agents might actually be degrading the quality of modern software. They dive deep into how Linear maintains its legendary quality bar and why the future of engineering belongs to those who think like product owners. ...

Presenters Omar Sanseviero Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Gemma 4: The Open Model Revolution You Can Hold in Your Hand! 🚀📱 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever dreamed of having cutting-edge AI power right in your pocket, running offline, totally customized for your needs? Well, that future just got a whole lot closer! Google DeepMind recently unveiled Gemma 4, their most capable family of open models yet, and it’s set to redefine what’s possible with on-device AI. ...

Presenters Malte Ubl Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 The Rise of the AI Engineer: Building the Future of Software 🚀 We are currently witnessing one of the most significant shifts in the history of technology. As Malte Ubl, CTO of Vercel, recently shared at the AI Engineer Conference in Europe, we aren’t just witnessing a trend—we are participating in the legitimate successor to web development. As software engineering faces unprecedented disruption, we are moving into an era where agents are both the builders and the users of our infrastructure. Here is how we navigate this new frontier. ...