dominik kundel
Pre-pandemic JSConf EU was the conference that was a clear "must not miss" for me. Now it's AIEWF.
Only things I'm missing are the late night discussions over burgers at Burgermeister and karaoke until 6am at Monster Ronson's. SF equivalents needed
AI Engineer: 6️⃣ Things to Know about
AI Engineer World's Fair 2026
- It’s bigger than all previous AIEs
- 4x Larger Expo with 4 Expo stages
- Researchers: Poster sessions & Poaster sessions
- AI Leadership: Token Billionaires & Off the Record
- AI Verticals: Healthcare, GTM, FDE, AGC,
Kim-Mai Cutler
Progressives spent 2016-2024 slathering on hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes on new housing per unit until moderates won back control in late 2024.
It isn’t the ZIRP era anymore unfortunately. Construction and financing costs are way higher than they were a decade ago. Time to roll it back and make it easier to build.
Bilal Mahmood 馬百樂: I was catching up with a friend at Y Combinator this weekend. This is the first year that even their entrepreneurs are unable to find housing in San Francisco.
To fundamentally address our housing crisis, we must build housing at all levels - market rate, middle-income, and
Check out my friend Kevin's awesome tool @ferrymanio to post from your favorite social platform and have that cross post to 7+ platforms at once.
Kevin Naughton Jr.: my little saas has officially crossposted over 20,000 posts for our users 🎉
i've been working on the product for ~8 months so just know it takes time especially if you're at the beginning of your journey! you can even see from the graph that it takes so long then it happens all
Jared Friedman
This is a deep insight from Blake: "the enemy is the real customer of defense products."
It's easy to think that the US govt is the customer of defense tech products, but ultimately they're effectively a middle-man. The enemy drives what we need.
Blake Scholl 🛫: In the event of a major war, Boom will pivot immediately and make defense products.
Wartime defense production should come primarily out of a commercial industrial base 1/n🧵
yes in case you missed it we are doing "poaster" sessions at AIE for the first time ever
no papers, no posters.
only poasters.
we are looking for people who physically print out their hottest takes and stand in front of them taking all comers
@QuinnyPig is there, we have room for a couple dozen more.
application below cc @vibhuuuus
lily zhang: very excited about the AIE poster & poaster session😄, let's get some spicy hot takes loaded. @swyx @vibhuuuus @aiDotEngineer
Re @QuinnyPig https://app.notion.com/p/Call-For-Poster-Poaster-Session-22372013d9a280e894eefea4bef84d05
Re @QuinnyPig i think this is where i challenge @willccbb to his first poaster session. or maybe @willdepue. or @WilliamBryk. idk all the wills?
Peter Yang
It’s funny, growing up as an immigrant I developed a scarcity mindset around saving money and resources.
But when it comes to unlimited token plans and tokenmaxxing, it feels like a missed opportunity if I don’t burn as many tokens as possible and hit the limit each time.
How do I address this disconnect? 🥹
It’s funny, growing up as an immigrant I developed a scarcity mindset around saving money and resources.
But when it comes to unlimited token plans and tokenmaxxing, it feels like a missed opportunity if I don’t burn as many tokens as possible and hit the limit each time.
How do I address this disconnect? 🥹
Ankit Gupta
in the near term you should probably just use @wafer_ai which seems to be the cheapest provider instead of building your own rig.
but the fact you can even consider doing it now is a very good sign for personal on-device AI in the next decade as trillions of dollars go into chip science.
Jordan Nanos: GLM 5.2 costs $1.40/4.40 per Mtok at 40 tok/sec and people seriously consider buying GPU rigs for it
Eric Topol
Two of the most important biomedical breakthroughs came from science of the Gila lizard venom (GLP-1s) and yogurt (CRISPR genome editing).
"The system that turned that lizard into a medicine is now being dismantled."
"Less support for scientists means strange questions no one will get to chase."
gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/opinion/glp1-research-science-funding.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sFA.op9Q.RxAEhIN5qcbq&smid=url-share
btw i've been shopping around for insurers for the New Media Lab we are setting up (basically the creative playground housing swyx inc) and yeah the NPS of Corgi is insanely high
my real estate broker: "just go with corgi they are covering every single one of my clients rn"
breaking through with ~100% greenfield market share like this is unheard of in the insurance industry
nico laqua: The point of the corgi cafe isn’t the interior design, although that’s something we’re improving (and there’s a lot more coming soon with the cafe). The point of the corgi cafe is it’s the only place where I am 100% certain that there are billion dollar companies being founded,
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Mythos-level intelligence on AI Gateway
Vercel Developers: Sakana Fugu Ultra is live on AI Gateway.
Mythos-class intelligence in a single call, with a whole pool of models behind it.
𝚖𝚘𝚍𝚎𝚕: '𝚜𝚊𝚔𝚊𝚗𝚊/𝚏𝚞𝚐𝚞-𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚛𝚊'
https://vercel.com/changelog/sakana-fugu-ultra-now-available-on-ai-gateway
Anti-data center yard signs are popping up in my area. I am entertaining the idea of paying for a billboard with something like “Data centers are awesome, Texas should lead!”
Shann³
how Gbrain works (made with Hermes Agent manim skill)
put together a quick walkthrough of @garrytan's gbrain, the knowledge layer behind my agents
raw information goes in on its own, meetings, chats, x, transcripts. it ingests, enriches every person and company it finds, and consolidates overnight on its own dream cycle
Shann³: GBrain as your company brain
If I were setting one up for a company, this is what I would ingest / configure first:
1. Source-of-truth docs
"Positioning, product docs, pricing, ICP, offer docs, brand rules, FAQs, internal strategy docs."
these are fundamental and would be
Recall Jackie Fielder
Jackie Fielder turned her District 9 office into a taxpayer-funded Shadow State Department.
While potholes went unfixed, open drug markets spread, and property crime exploded in the Mission, Bernal Heights, and Portola, she diverted staff time and city resources to Middle Eastern geopolitics. She wasn’t solving local problems. She was playing diplomat from City Hall.
In October 2025, when a San Francisco native named Logan Hollarsmith was detained by Israeli forces on a Gaza flotilla, Fielder’s legislative aide reached out to his mother offering the District 9 office’s official support. Fielder publicly declared “nothing but admiration and respect” for the activists. At the same time she weaponized the conflict to attack local employers, boycotting Dreamforce and calling Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff “incredibly dangerous.”
This wasn’t representation. This was grotesque dereliction. She spent taxpayer hours on international maritime drama and alienating the Jewish community and moderate Democrats while her own district fell apart.
Her priorities were never District 9. They were performative activism and ideological signaling on everyone else’s dime.
Jackie Fielder must resign.
Daniel Han
I’m running a 3 hour advanced workshop at AI Engineer World’s Fair! 🚀
2026 has greatly changed how one should learn lower-level technicals like kernels, agentic RL, reward hacking, cont learning.
What would you like to see?
Last year @aiDotEngineer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkEGJ5G3foU
It’s over for 🇦🇹. Sorry @timolins @tobiaslins. 🇦🇷 🇦🇷 🇦🇷
Peter Yang
5 steps to create amazing videos like the one below from HTML for free:
Install @HyperFrames_ in your favorite coding harness (e.g., Codex or Claude Code).
Then...
1. Gather your assets
Create a project folder and add screenshots, logos, website captures, reference clips, and a frame md to give Hyperframes the raw material for your video.
If you have a design md you can convert it to a frame md here: https://www.hyperframes.dev/design
📌 Watch @JakeFromHeyGen cover all 5 steps live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqb5Rd6KKr8&t=508s
...or keep reading below 👇
Nathan Labenz
Today on AI:AM:
@swyx, who coined "AI Engineer", is gearing up for his next @aidotengineer World's Fair next week
We'll be talking about his new FrontierCode benchmark, the state of SWE, whether AI coding platforms are converging or diverging, and more
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1MJgNNqYWNqGL
RT @sapinker: "We Have to Stop Freaking Out About A.I." warns Nobel laureate Robert Shiller. Depressions, formerly called panics, are cause…
Sam Parr
Replit's CEO on the months right before they blew up:
- Lost half the team. 120 people down to 60.
- Had just moved into a huge new office. Empty, cold, dark.
- Every morning he knew someone was gonna walk to his desk and quit.
- "You can see it in their eyes when they stop believing in you."
Thou hast made us for Thyself and our hearts are restless till they rest in Thee.
—Augustine
Nicolas Dessaigne
Startup School Paris is in one week (June 29) and we're taking a final batch of applications.
One day. Zero filters. The founders of @datadoghq, @supabase, @posthog, @amilabs & many others telling the real stories, not the polished ones.
If you're building in France or Europe, apply before it's too late!
http://events.ycombinator.com/yc-paris-sus
Joyce Zhang
I’m excited to partner with @swyx to host a workshop at the @aiDotEngineer World’s Fair with Carole Robin (Distinguished @StanfordGSB Teacher of “Touchy Feely” & Co-Founder of @LITfellows) on developing effective relationships.
Building human relationships (including romantic ones) is a KPI of @aiDotEngineer. While we are celebrating so much AI progress, we also want to foster more human connection. This is an urgent time to ensure we have both the technical skills to develop AI safely *and* the interpersonal skills to build effective human relationships.
We will do a live demo of connection tools from the Touchy Feely course and @LITfellows programs. You'll then practice the skills yourself. You'll leave with tools to be more effective in your professional and personal relationships.
Public conference passes are sold out, but @swyx is offering a limited number of complimentary Expo passes for this workshop. Request a pass by Thursday, June 25 to attend the workshop: http://bit.ly/connect-ai-2026
gm
𝚆𝚎𝚋𝚂𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚝 (and 𝚜𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚝.𝚒𝚘) now supported on Vercel, from CDN to Fluid.
Special full circle moment for @vercel
Vercel Developers: WebSockets are now supported on Vercel.
Build realtime apps using standard Node.js libraries, including socket.io.
https://vercel.com/changelog/websocket-support-is-now-in-public-beta
We're accelerating patching, in addition to vuln finding, with new tools and models in OpenAI Daybreak.
Our models are now discovering and generating patches for critical vulns in major browsers, network infrastructure, and operating systems (such as FreeBSD and the Linux kernel), and patching projects like cURL, Go, Python, Sigstore, and pyca/cryptography.
Working together with partners and the ecosystem to help secure the world's software:
OpenAI: We’re expanding OpenAI Daybreak to help democratize patching vulnerable software at machine speed:
- Codex Security plugin: find, validate, and fix vulnerabilities right inside Codex
- The full version of GPT-5.5-Cyber model: a great model for trusted defenders
- Cyber Partner
Jelani Nelson
I keep coming back to this Op-Ed.
CA Community Colleges will be banned from offering remedial math. Have you been working for 20 yrs and now want to go back to school and study business? You cannot brush up on College Algebra. You must be enrolled directly into Calculus. (!?!)
I want to do a podcast episode with someone who's good at using Codex / Claude Code to create fun pixel or threejs games and can show us how to do it.
I am a gamer at heart! Who's the best person to talk to?
We want to help all companies be secure, working with the USG and the security ecosystem.
*The full version of GPT-5.5-Cyber is here; state of the art performance on CyberGym.
*Patch The Planet and Codex Security will help solve security problems instead of just finding them.
I thought “no way is this real”, but there actually is a project along these lines. I doubt Nvidia is any more involved than just selling them GPUs, and they aren’t going to be “silent”, but a company is actually pitching this.
Large data centers have substantial efficiencies of scale, so this is economically nonsensical even for low grade inference (to say nothing of training) unless traditional construction is outlawed.
https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/2051817398085538229?s=46&t=7DUsFjkDZGc7dfsNI9KsmQ
Weekend Programmer: @ID_AA_Carmack Try "Data Centers for Everyone!" Nvidia is testing fridge sizes boxes to be parked at people's homes. Here's they key: The unit is silent, small, and unintrusive. Nvidia pays electric bills + monthly stipend, beside.
That's how you build data centers!
Codex Security plugin for security teams: deep scans, validating findings, tracing attack paths, building threat models, generating codebase-specific patches for review, and exporting into other tools: https://openai.com/daybreak/codex-security-plugin/
Latent.Space
Gray Swan: Red-Teaming after Mythos & the coming AI security crisis https://www.latent.space/p/gray-swan
@GraySwanAI cofounders @zicokolter and Matt Fredrikson explain why AI security is fundamentally different from traditional cybersecurity, how their automated red-teaming system Shade can now outperform humans at breaking frontier models, why prompt injection creates an entirely new class of exploits for agents like Claude Code and Codex, and why the first major AI security breach may be a gray swan event that everyone sees coming.
Ankit Gupta
Extremely predictable: the driver lied
Ashok Elluswamy: @elonmusk @kylaschwaberow Yup. In this case, the driver manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100% of the accel pedal in this residential area. They reached a speed of 73 mph during the crash, and had the accelerator pressed even after the crash.
Wing VC
New listen: @GraySwanAI cofounders @zicokolter and Matt Fredrikson sat down with @swyx on @latentspacepod to unpack why AI security is its own discipline; not just "cybersecurity with AI."
As agents like Claude Code and Codex go mainstream, they open up an entirely new class of vulnerabilities. Zico and Matt break it all down:
🎯Prompt injection
🛑The "lethal trifecta"
🤖Automated red teaming
🦢Why the next major AI incident may be a gray swan, unlikely, but visible long before it hits
Essential listening for anyone building or deploying AI agents: https://www.latent.space/p/gray-swan
Varunram Ganesh
Crazier thing is 3/5 top deals in this list are YC cos
E2B
Our own Matt Brockman is hosting a workshop on top 5 sandbox failure modes and how to address them at AI Engineer!
Catch his workshop to become an expert in managing sandboxes in just 1 hour. You'll trigger & patch various failure modes live: burst traffic, callback loss, state leakage, runaway execution, and brittle templates.
Join us at @aiDotEngineer on Monday, June 29 at 11:05am at Moscone West.
Patch the Planet: using frontier AI and working with professional security researchers to secure critical OSS projects
OpenAI: Patch the Planet is our effort to help open source maintainers move from security findings to merged fixes.
We’re working with Trail of Bits, HackerOne, Calif, researchers, and maintainers to bring Codex Security and advanced models into the remediation process, with human
Siqi Chen
fair enough emma
i suggest we do the proper democratic thing then and allow every cancer patient and parent of kids with cancer to vote on whether they'd rather see AI move faster, or if they'd rather watch their loved ones die
Emma Pierson: New piece in @TheAtlantic!
We always hear that AI will cure cancer, and I would immediately benefit if it did. But I argue that racing ahead on generalist AI models creates unclear benefits for cancer that are outweighed by broader societal harms.
(Gift link in next post)
Pamela Fox
The @aiDotEngineer schedule wins for having the most possible ways that developers can interact with it: JSON, llms.txt, MCP server, iCal, embeddings, agent skill
https://ai.engineer/worldsfair/schedule
Now all it needs is a light mode to make me happy! I guess I could just vibe it myself.😄
