btw get to the Expo EARLY to get this sota swag
limited run while stocks last
basically this is our equivalent of a magic 8 ball you can roll whenever u are stuck
swyx 🔜 @aiDotEngineer: btw we crossed our 6k attendee mark a while ago. will probably call sold out when we hit 7k this weekend. do get tix now, this is the epicenter of ai next week.
if you are a student or between jobs, head to /associates to help us out.

hey btw electricity is going to be proportional to intelligence so we should build nuclear wind and solar as a national security imperative
Chris Meder: 🚨 China just became first country in history to surpass 4 TW of installed electricity capacity.
• 4.01 TW total capacity
• 62% non-fossil
• 61% renewable
• 1.5% nuclear
• 32% coal (down > 61% in 2010)
China's electricity system now 1.7× larger than the US and EU combined.

Putin's cannon fodder: "The average life expectancy of a new recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies...between 10 days and 3 weeks. Once...sent onto the battlefield, Russian fighters survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes." https://trib.al/pJQZmLY

Very, very important caveat:
Alec Stapp: America's superpower is being a magnet for talent from all around the world.

Trump's Board of Peace plans to grant itself legal immunity for itself from “any arrest, detention or legal proceeding," according to a draft resolution. The draft language would also let the organization obtain public property in Gaza “free of charge.” https://trib.al/kFjVySj

New research from @nytimes finds that the US government is actively doing "critical minerals" deals with FOURTEEN different companies that have financial ties to the Trump and/or Lutnick families - deals worth around $9 billion in all:

"We give [agents] tasks overnight and then we wake up and the backlog is resolved and bugs are squashed."
Here's my new episode with @jess__yan, product lead at Anthropic. Jess showed me how to build a long-running Claude agent from scratch and how Anthropic product teams use agents internally to:
→ Understand the codebase
→ Synthesize user feedback
→ Pressure-test API decisions
Some quotes from Jess:
"You should be able to tag [agents] anywhere, but they should also proactively surface things for you in the way that a co-worker truly would."
"For me, agents really unlock depth. Rather than poking engineers on what they’re doing, I can just track the PRs directly and see which ones are merged."
"Long-running cloud agents are not bound by the constraints of your laptop and when it's on."
📌 Watch now: https://youtu.be/Xu5gz2qsaz8
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I met a founder last week who was drowning, and his instinct was to hire more engineers. But the bottleneck wasn't building the product, it was getting it live at customers. Onboarding the deals they'd already signed was backed up for months.
The fix wasn't more engineers writing code. It was fewer of them writing code and more of them sitting inside the customer making the thing actually work.
A lot of startups don't die because they can't build anymore. They die because they can't deploy.

Easily the best AI series available
CS 153 at Stanford. Lectures from Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman

It's quite rational to regulate frontier API models, especially to get more transparency for the government, without regulating open-source AI.
Here's why:
1. The most dangerous AI systems right now aren't open models. They're the large frontier LLM APIs distributed through coding tools and assistants, because:
- They're built in secret behind closed doors and stay total black boxes. Zero transparency on what they can or can't do, with "safeguards" that blur everyone's ability to even analyze them.
- They're built and controlled by a few profit-maximizing megacorps, concentrating unprecedented power in very few hands, with every incentive to downplay risks and overstate their safeguards.
- They're distributed to hundreds of millions, maybe billions, of people and trivially easy to run.
2. Open-weight models are orders of magnitude less risky:
- They're not as massively distributed or as easy to use, especially the big ones, as APIs and assistants.
- We (including governments) can quickly and accurately analyze what they're capable of, and for now everyone confirms they're not as good as the APIs at doing bad things.
- They're distributed to everyone, so defenders and law enforcement get as much access as attackers.
The cost-benefit analysis of regulation is completely different too. Regulating frontier APIs is relatively easy and low risk while regulating open source would be much more complex, less efficient, and orders of magnitude more costly.
Regulating frontier APIs would only potentially hurt a few megacorps, if it even hurts them, given all the marketing that it is already generating for them. They can afford armies of lawyers and absorb losing a few billion dollars, especially given they're on track to become some of the most valuable companies in history.
Regulating open source, by contrast, would hurt the very people regulation is supposed to protect: small businesses, startups, researchers, nonprofits, universities, independent developers, and the broader public, while risking killing competition, slowing AI progress, and reducing transparency even more!

If you want to understand San Francisco politics, you need to understand that the far-left does not like Scott Wiener because he is a YIMBY, and the far-right does not like Scott Wiener because he is a YIMBY.

This week we kicked off the S26 batch @ycombinator.
Many of these talented builders will turn into formidable founders over the course of the summer.
Cannot wait to help them build the very beginning of eventually iconic companies. Lfg.

The 2026 World's Fair is completely sold out 🫡
✅ The largest AI industry expo on earth
✅ Sold out on Leadership track for CTOs & VP AI's
✅ Sold out on Workshops tomorrow
✅ Sold out on ALL late bird tickets
🙌 65 side events still FREE all over SF (see website)
What we will never sell out: Our commitment to publishing all the best AI engineering content for free online on YouTube.
We have now opened limited overflow tickets for our expo and engineering tix — no seating guaranteed, sessions are first come first served.
If you ARE one of our attendees, DO come down to Moscone for New Engineer Orientation tonight from 5p-9p to meet new friends and skip the morning crush for tomorrow. We expect EXTREMELY heavy last minute registration and need your help to load balance across days.
Please give your speakers and sponsors all the love for all the effort they are putting into making this the greatest show we have ever done!
swyx 🔜 @aiDotEngineer: btw we crossed our 6k attendee mark a while ago. will probably call sold out when we hit 7k this weekend. do get tix now, this is the epicenter of ai next week.
if you are a student or between jobs, head to /associates to help us out.

In any normal administration, the self-dealing by Trump and the officials around him would be scandalous. But Trump has normalized the corruption. https://trib.al/LanOhZb

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Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.
The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.
Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.
The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.
Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.
The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.
The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.
This is your tax money.
It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.
This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.
We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.
Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/world/europe/trump-lutnick-sons-kazakhstan.html?unlocked_article_code%3D1.tlA.qIg2.aqgKx_c-fyWu%26smid%3Dnytcore-ios-share&source=gmail-imap&ust=1783260157000000&usg=AOvVaw08aex7rVxuowBx-iPxKrwV

How Anthropic PMs use agents internally to get closer to the product from Jess, product lead for Claude Managed Agents:
“Access to our codebase has been the biggest unlock for me.
It helps me manage state more easily. Rather than poking a bunch of engineers on what they’re doing, I can just track the PRs directly and see which ones are merged, which ones are deployed.
I deeply understand and interact with my product so much more than I’ve ever been able to in the past.”
📌 Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/Xu5gz2qsaz8
https://x.com/petergyang/status/2071235979369972033?s=20
Peter Yang: "We give [agents] tasks overnight and then we wake up and the backlog is resolved and bugs are squashed."
Here's my new episode with @jess__yan, product lead at Anthropic. Jess showed me how to build a long-running Claude agent from scratch and how Anthropic product teams use

I wonder if another reason wiener is being *specifically* targeted (for context: daniel lurie is also jewish) is because he spearheaded housing reforms in CA that have been kryptonite for leftist nonprofit grifters
Hadley Freeman: These Wiener videos are so chilling. I don’t like WW2 analogies, but I think all of us who grew up hearing about how our grandparents were shouted at and shunned in 1930s Europe cannot help but see echoes here

Re in case anyone was wondering, 300 or so people were referred by chatgpt this year

episode 0 of the next token.
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sunday watching - criminally underviewed agentic coding advice from Segment cofounder and former OpenAI MTS on Codex @calvinfo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ntX4DLW_c

embedded the AI Engineer World Fair talks to be able to “find similar talks”, but then added a map & ability to bookmark a list and export it
https://yoheinakajima.github.io/aie-talks/
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