May 15, 2026

Agents Don't Do Standups: Building the Post-Engineer Engineering Org — Mike Spitz, PFF

A case study from PFF reveals how a two-engineer team, by leveraging AI agents, achieved a 25x increase in deployment frequency and 10x the output of a ten-engineer team. CTO Mike Spitz explains their core principle: shifting focus from making engineers faster to making AI agents faster. This talk deconstructs the resulting transformation, which eliminated traditional agile ceremonies like stand-ups and sprint planning in favor of an automated, spec-to-PR workflow, redefining the roles of engineers and processes in a modern software organization.

May 15, 2026

How Building with AI Can Double the Throughput of Your Engineering Team — Brian Scanlan, Intercom

Intercom doubled its engineering throughput in under a year by treating its AI coding agent not as a simple tool, but as a new senior engineer. This involved a full onboarding process onto their 15-year-old Rails monolith, creating a library of durable skills for recurring tasks, and providing audited access to all internal systems.

May 15, 2026

AI skills security, Open AI Deployment Company & zero days

This discussion explores IBM Research's MELLEA, a skills compiler designed to secure AI agents by transforming natural language skills into verifiable Python programs. It also analyzes OpenAI's new consulting venture, the "Deployment Company", and debates the future of AI in consulting. Finally, it delves into the escalating AI-driven cybersecurity arms race, highlighted by Google's discovery of an AI-found zero-day, and wraps with insights from the Red Hat Summit on enterprise AI transformation being a cultural challenge before a technological one.

May 14, 2026

Codex for Everyday Work: AI Agents Beyond Coding

Thibault Sottiaux, Head of Codex at OpenAI, discusses the evolution of Codex from a niche developer tool into a general-purpose agent for knowledge work. He explores how this shift is redefining productivity, team dynamics, and our fundamental relationship with technology.

May 14, 2026

Inside image generation’s Renaissance moment — the OpenAI Podcast Ep. 19

Product lead Adele Li and researcher Kenji Hata from OpenAI discuss the significant advancements in Images 2.0, covering breakthroughs in photorealism, text rendering, and multilingual support. They explore new productivity and creative use cases, the evaluation process, and the future of image generation as a creative assistant.

May 14, 2026

Building AI Agents That Survive Production

Haytham Abuelfutuh, CTO of Union.ai, argues that the key to production-ready AI agents is not preventing failure, but embracing it. He introduces the '3 D's' framework—Dynamic, Durable, and Defended—for building agents that can fail cheaply and recover automatically, grounded in a real-world case study of an agent system indexing over 250,000 products on Flyte.