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Replacing 12K LoC with a 200 LoC Skill — David Gomes, Cursor

Replacing 12K LoC with a 200 LoC Skill — David Gomes, Cursor

David Gomes from Cursor explains their transition from a complex, 15,000-line Git WorkTrees feature to a lightweight, flexible solution built on Markdown prompts. He details how 'Skills' and 'Sub-agents' recreated parallel coding workflows, and discusses the trade-offs, failure modes, and lessons learned from shifting product logic from hard code to natural language instructions.

Q‑Day Explained: How Quantum Computing Threatens Today’s Cryptography

Q‑Day Explained: How Quantum Computing Threatens Today’s Cryptography

Q-Day, the day a quantum computer will be powerful enough to break current encryption standards, is an inevitable threat. This summary explains how quantum algorithms like Shor’s and Grover’s will compromise both asymmetric and symmetric cryptography, the severe consequences for data confidentiality and digital trust, and why the "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" attack vector makes immediate migration to post-quantum cryptography a critical priority for all organizations.

I Read 9,000 AI Papers So You Don't Have To

I Read 9,000 AI Papers So You Don't Have To

Nick Vasiloglou, VP of Research at Relational AI, analyzes the key trends from NeurIPS 2025, highlighting the most impactful and under-the-radar developments for industry professionals. The discussion covers the rise of data markets through real-time attribution, the sophisticated engineering behind capable small language models (SLMs), the explosion of AI for science, and the shift towards post-training models with real-world tools.

Build Hour: Workspace agents in ChatGPT

Build Hour: Workspace agents in ChatGPT

A detailed overview of building ChatGPT Workspace Agents, covering the process from conversational setup to deployment. The session demonstrates creating a meeting preparation agent and a software review agent, highlighting features like tool integration, skills, memory, and enterprise-level admin controls.

Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

Andrej Karpathy discusses the shift from 'vibe coding' to 'agentic engineering,' explaining why LLMs should be treated as 'ghosts'—jagged, statistical entities—rather than animals. He delves into the Software 3.0 paradigm, the limits of verifiability, and why human understanding remains the ultimate bottleneck in an age of outsourced thinking.

Demis Hassabis on Building DeepMind, AlphaFold, and the Final Stretch to AGI

Demis Hassabis on Building DeepMind, AlphaFold, and the Final Stretch to AGI

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, outlines the path to AGI, which he predicts by 2030. He discusses the profound impact of AI on science, particularly in revolutionizing drug discovery with systems like AlphaFold, and posits that AI will enable new forms of simulation-based science. Hassabis also delves into the philosophical underpinnings of his work, viewing information as the universe's most fundamental quantity and advocating for developing AGI as a powerful tool before tackling the deeper questions of consciousness.