Aug 11, 2026

Circleback CEO Ali Haghani: Recording Company Meetings Will Become The Norm

Ali Haghani, co-founder of CircleBack, shares his unique hardware setup and delves into how his AI notetaker streamlines business operations, from interview tracking to customer support. He discusses the shift from manual coding to AI-orchestrated development, the nuances of prompt engineering, and his vision for why recording meetings with AI is becoming essential for leveraging LLMs and agents effectively in enterprises, ultimately reshaping the future of software engineering.

Aug 10, 2026

Peter Steinberger: What Happens When 4.7 Million People Let It Cook

Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, shares the candid story of building one of the world's largest open-source AI projects. Starting from a personal annoyance, OpenClaw went viral, leading to both immense success and unforeseen challenges, including burnout, security pressures, and feature creep. He offers invaluable lessons on product-market fit, managing hyper-growth in open source, the peril of dependencies, and the philosophy that "fun is velocity" in building impactful technology.

Aug 10, 2026

Kavak's Playbook for Rebuilding a Company Around AI

Alejandro Maza Ayala, Chief Product & AI Officer at Kavak, details how the used-car marketplace transformed into an AI-native company. He explains the 'agent-per-customer' architecture, where individual agents handle 96% of customer interactions and 95% of transactions, outperforming human teams in sales (2.1x better conversion) and even acting as an 'AI CEO' that boosted profits by 50% in an experimental city. The discussion covers the need to redesign company structures, the importance of robust evaluations, and how a 'Jedi Academy' trains all employees, from executives to mechanics, to build and collaborate with AI agents. Ayala argues for 'creative destruction,' suggesting that true AI leverage comes from rebuilding organizations from the ground up, rather than incremental adoption, presenting a massive opportunity for new founders.

Aug 10, 2026

5 Best Practices for Building AI Agent Skills

This video outlines five essential best practices for developing reliable, secure, and effective AI agent skills. It covers optimizing skill triggering through descriptive metadata, leveraging real-world domain expertise over generic LLM output, managing context windows efficiently by writing lean skills and using progressive disclosure, implementing deterministic logic with scripts for fragile operations, and critically vetting all skills for security vulnerabilities before deployment. These practices are crucial for professionals building robust agentic systems.

Aug 09, 2026

Multiplayer agentic engineering — Arjun Singh, Superconductor

Arjun Singh, co-founder of Superconductor, discusses the six crucial lessons learned from integrating AI agents into their software development workflow. He emphasizes the importance of building "multiplayer agentic engineering" systems where human teams and AI agents collaborate seamlessly, focusing on model agnosticism, pervasive agent interfaces, transparent work visibility, automated signal-to-code conversion (like their "meeting bot"), secure isolated cloud environments, and internal code-base benchmarking to optimize cost, quality, and speed.

Aug 09, 2026

Always-on agents run production without the on-call tax — Justin Smith, Resolve AI

Justin Smith from Resolve AI discusses how AI agents address the increasing operational burden on engineers, highlighting that 70% of an engineer's time is spent running code. He introduces Resolve AI's background agents, which autonomously monitor deployments, perform health checks, generate reports, and answer engineering questions by leveraging deep production context and a self-learning knowledge system, effectively reducing the "on-call tax" and managing system complexity.