Learn to ship.
Guillermo Rauch: Learn to ship. Shipping is a skill distinct from coding. Shipping is designing, coding, QAing, story-telling, teaching, marketing, selling, pivoting, iterating…
It used to be that coding dominated in importance because of coding ability scarcity. AI will push you to go further.

Everyone nationally is reporting this as a story about Gaza and Israel, but if you listen to the actual recording, half or more of what they were mad about is that Scott Wiener thinks it is good to let you build an apartment in a city on land you own
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/us/scott-wiener-trans-march-gaza-video.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tlA.nTnP.V675hXlvb40P&smid=tw-share

.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.
Elon Musk: Exactly.
And they cannot cite a single name of someone who died out of the “millions” they falsely claim have died. Not a single name!

New rule: Anyone who is about to write a "all workers will be replaced by machines" essay needs to first read On Machinery by David Ricardo (yes, that David Ricardo), because he probably wrote your essay...in 1817.
Dean W. Ball: Lord, grant me the cajones to one day begin my essay: “Let’s start from this premise: I am correct. My conception of cognition, AI, labor markets, the economy, human beings, and the world is perfect, and things will go exactly as I expect. I can’t prove this, but…”

We actually kickstart things early tomorrow with 2 workshops on Local AI
See you guys tomorrow
Ahmad: MASSIVE NEWS
Teamed up with NVIDIA to make Local AI The Default

you guys are not ready for this level of swag
Corey Quinn: The early badge pickup for @aiDotEngineer is nuts.

A very damaged man who had the political power and the private wealth to save millions of lives but chose instead to allow suffering & death. Not only that, he uses his influence to sow ethnic and religious hatred, undermine democratic governments and argue against empathy itself
Nicholas Kristof: .@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:

If you are not speaking at @aiDotEngineer what are you even doing

So PSA for anyone who wants to build this
A *fantastic* starting point is Hermes + Gbrain
You can message it on Slack
It has ALL company knowledge
Can be invoked in parallel
Can use Hermes to code OR have it drive Claude Code or Codex
You can connect everything to it
But also
Your data remains yours
You can swap models, personality, and add custom features whenever you want
I'm sure @Teknium and @garrytan would agree
Gergely Orosz: I talked with a few folks inside Anthropic and I am starting to understand what @karpathy is saying (and what lots of people are misunderstanding)
It's not about Slack, but about a cloud AI, hooked up to ALL internal company systems, that "just works." THIS is the breakthrough

I just donated to Scott Wiener's campaign.
Last weekend clarified the November race better than any op-ed could.
Connie Chan has built a strange horseshoe coalition: conservatives who want San Francisco frozen in amber, cars, unaffordable housing and all, and a radical fringe that would rather perform than govern. Two very different aesthetics, one clear allergy to real progress.
But beyond politics, Chan has shown a character problem. As a supervisor, she opposed police funding. Then, when her own neighborhood became ground zero for elderly Asian residents being robbed, she ran to London Breed, literally in tears, accusing her of starving the Richmond of police officers. The lack of self-awareness and accountability was stunning.
Now, I've been critical of Scott before, particularly on public safety. His policies, particularly his support of prop 47, have had real flaws in my opinion. But unlike Chan, he's delivered meaningful legislation on housing, affordability, and public transit: things that actually shape how San Francisco functions.
And last weekend, he showed something harder to register: character. Faced with genuinely hostile behavior, he didn't lose his composure or cave to the moment. He calmly removed himself from the situation, then came back to reaffirm his support for the very community that had confronted him.
That's the kind of steadiness and moral compass sorely missing from a Congress that has grown increasingly servile to the President.
Vote for @Scott_Wiener!

Come join us at the music corner at @aiDotEngineer
It’s not just about AI, it’s the vibes
DJ sets arriving soon as well

One study found Musk’s closing of the U.S. Agency for International Development could cause the deaths of millions of children. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2026/06/29/a-testy-musk-attacks-claims-doges-cuts-killed-children-but-studies-paint-grim-picture/?utm_source=ForbesMainTwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ForbesMainTwitter (Photo: Associated Press)

Grok Voice in Vercel!
Vercel Developers: Grok's realtime voice is now on AI Gateway. Build with AI SDK 7:
• 𝚡𝚊𝚒/𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚔-𝚟𝚘𝚒𝚌𝚎-𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔-𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝-𝟷.𝟶 (𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎)
• 𝚡𝚊𝚒/𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚔-𝚝𝚝𝚜 (𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚎𝚌𝚑)
• 𝚡𝚊𝚒/𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚔-𝚜𝚝𝚝 (𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚋𝚎)
https://vercel.com/changelog/xai-grok-audio-models-now-available-on-vercel-ai-gateway

State of the art voice APIs from SpaceXAI, now in the Vercel AI Gateway
Vercel Developers: Grok's realtime voice is now on AI Gateway. Build with AI SDK 7:
• 𝚡𝚊𝚒/𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚔-𝚟𝚘𝚒𝚌𝚎-𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔-𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝-𝟷.𝟶 (𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎)
• 𝚡𝚊𝚒/𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚔-𝚝𝚝𝚜 (𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚎𝚌𝚑)
• 𝚡𝚊𝚒/𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚔-𝚜𝚝𝚝 (𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚋𝚎)
https://vercel.com/changelog/xai-grok-audio-models-now-available-on-vercel-ai-gateway

Now introducing Replit Desktop, a seamless way to multitask and get the best of Replit right on your Desktop.
Supported for both Windows and Mac.

Musk is right that many problems can't be solved just by "throwing money" at them.
But US aid to fight AIDS, child hunger & other global plagues has one of the highest ROIs in government.
The data is clear: cutting this $ means millions will die. The question is how many.

Apologies to those looking forward to @mattpocockuk's keynote, but he had to bow out for personal stuff...
... but he didn't leave us high and dry!!!!!!!!!!
happy to announce our final and tenth online track keynote talk from one of the GOAT AIE speakers!
(link in reply)
we will announce Matt's replacement soon... 👀
Matt Pocock: Just recorded my AIE SF talk remotely, and I'm sad that I won't get to have a corridor Q&A.
My talk's called "The Missing Manual: How To Write Great Skills"
So, AMA. What do you want to know about writing better skills?

This is what the line looks like coming into my two-hour workshop at @aiDotEngineer World's Fair... ten minutes before start. No pressure!

This is a mini documentary I did about the Homeless crisis in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood in partnership with @DiscoveryInst1 @DiscoveryCWP please share.

How Anthropic product lead @jess__yan uses AI agents internally across 5 workflows:
1. Understand the codebase
Instead of asking engineers what shipped or how something works, Jess can inspect pull requests, deployments, and product architecture directly. “Access to our codebase has been the biggest unlock for me.”
2. Synthesize customer feedback
Jess has agents monitor customer Slack channels to get more signal before deciding what to build next.
3. Get briefed before meetings
Jess uses agents to prep before customer conversations, pitches, and internal discussions. This helps her show up with baseline research done and a clearer opinion.
4. Pressure-test product & API decisions
Jess has an API review agent in Slack that helps the team improve API design and spot when their biases are getting in the way.
5. Build temporary agents for messy ops work
Jess built an ad hoc agent to clean up a 4,000+ company waitlist. t removed invalid entries, scored likely high-value testers, and helped pull invitees daily. Messy short-lived workflows are great candidates for temporary agents.
Jess also showed me how to build a Claude analytics agent from scratch in our interview.
📌 Watch the episode here: https://youtu.be/Xu5gz2qsaz8
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

Open-source AI is booming, massively impactful for progress, competition, transparency & orders of magnitude less dangerous than closed-source frontier AI.
Time to support it to the max!

backstage aie access to interview the one and only mochi 🤩

Re @aiDotEngineer workshop done.
Packed room and people sitting down
And a lot of questions, am especially in 1:1 afterwards. Thanks for coming to chat. So fun!
Hope this means it was a success
Now time to enjoy the other amazing talks !!
❤️
Thanks @swyx for the opportunity