Jul 07, 2026

The Pipeline Is Dead - Iris ten Teije, Sky Valley Ambient Computing

This talk fundamentally challenges the long-standing 'frozen artifact' model of software distribution, arguing it's obsolete due to the collapsing cost of software changes (driven by AI) and persistent demand for personalization. Iris ten Teije introduces Differ's vision of 'adaptive software' using a 'stem and divergences' architecture, where each user runs a unique, live-adapted version. The presentation delves into the complex architectural, testing, and coordination challenges of this new paradigm, emphasizing the need for robust infrastructure to manage user-specific, mutable software safely.

Jul 07, 2026

SWE-Marathon: Evaluating Coding Agents at Billion-Token Scale - Rishi Desai, Abundant AI

SWE-Marathon introduces a benchmark for long-horizon autonomous software engineering, pushing coding agents from bug fixes to full project ownership. It highlights the critical need for robust, multi-layered verification and anti-cheat mechanisms to prevent reward hacking in tasks spanning hundreds of millions of tokens, revealing that current agents achieve only a 26% success rate.

Jul 02, 2026

The Platform Engineer’s Handbook • Ajay Chankramath & Kaspar von Grünberg • GOTO 2026

This conversation with Ajay Chankramath, author of 'The Platform Engineer’s Handbook,' delves into why practical, code-first guidance is essential for building Internal Developer Platforms. He argues that developer adoption failures stem from a "product discipline gap," not a technology one, emphasizing developer experience as a first-class outcome. The discussion covers the book's arc from foundations to enterprise-grade features and its focus on 100% open-source, vendor-agnostic tooling. Crucially, it highlights how agentic AI raises the stakes for platform engineering, requiring new IDP layers for agent context, memory, and guardrails, asserting that these must be built, owned, and operated internally for safe and productive AI adoption.

Jun 30, 2026

Session on Reasoning

This session features two talks on optimizing and verifying AI reasoning. Hongxiang Fan discusses cross-stack co-design for efficient AI, focusing on Test-Time Scaling (TTS) challenges, optimal verification granularity, and system-level optimizations for edge deployments. Nagarajan Natarajan introduces 'Advancing Verified Reasoning' with the InterVent platform, aiming to ensure AI agents comply with complex policies through formal verification, dynamic steering, and leveraging verification signals for training. Both emphasize addressing the computational and reliability costs of advanced AI.

Jun 29, 2026

The AI Agents Helping Home Services Book More Jobs

Avoca (YC W23) has achieved eight-figure revenue and a $1 billion valuation by building an AI workforce for home services, turning missed calls into revenue. Founders Apurva Shrivastava and Tyson Chen explain how AI expands software's market share beyond 1% by automating labor and operational costs, leading to a 15x larger opportunity. They emphasize that their AI agents augment human workers, reducing attrition in challenging CSR roles and creating new positions for training AI, driven by a deep customer obsession learned at YC.

Jun 29, 2026

The Blueprint for Autonomous Work Agents | Gavriel Cohen, NanoClaw

Kovid Goyal, founder of NanoClaw, discusses his journey from a serendipitous encounter with Singapore's Foreign Minister to evolving NanoClaw into an enterprise AI deployment company. He shares insights on personal vs. team-managed agents, the "second brain" as a killer use case, NanoClaw's security-first architecture, and the future challenges of managing open-source projects and enterprise AI deployments in an era of rapidly evolving agent technology.