Jul 28, 2025

Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money

Technologist Balaji Srinivasan joins a16z's Erik Torenberg and Martin Casado to discuss the limitations and societal impact of AI, framing the conversation around the concept of "Polytheistic AGI"—multiple, culturally-specific AIs—versus a singular, god-like intelligence. They explore the practical system-level constraints on AI, its surprising evolution, the critical role of cryptography in grounding AI in reality, and the future of work and security in an AI-driven world.

Jul 27, 2025

Ship Agents that Ship: A Hands-On Workshop - Kyle Penfound, Jeremy Adams, Dagger

A detailed summary of a workshop on building and deploying production-minded AI coding agents using Dagger. The session covers creating controlled, observable, and test-driven agent workflows and integrating them into CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions for automated, reliable software development.

Jul 27, 2025

Strategies for LLM Evals (GuideLLM, lm-eval-harness, OpenAI Evals Workshop) — Taylor Jordan Smith

Traditional benchmarks and leaderboards are insufficient for production AI. This summary details a practical, multi-layered evaluation strategy, moving from foundational system performance to factual accuracy and finally to safety and bias, using open-source tools like GuideLLM, lm-eval-harness, and Promptfoo.

Jul 25, 2025

Beyond the Prototype: Using AI to Write High-Quality Code - Josh Albrecht, Imbue

Josh Albrecht, CTO of Imbue, discusses the engineering challenges in building reliable AI coding agents. He introduces Sculptor, an experimental environment designed to build trust in AI-generated code by focusing on preventing and detecting problems through structured workflows, automated testing, and AI-driven analysis, moving beyond simple code generation to create maintainable software.

Jul 25, 2025

Devin 2.0 and the Future of SWE - Scott Wu, Cognition

Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition AI, discusses the exponential growth of AI capabilities in software engineering, likening it to a "Moore's Law for AI agents" with a doubling time of every 70 days. He chronicles the evolution of their AI agent, Devin, from handling repetitive code migrations to autonomously managing entire backlogs, highlighting the key technical challenges and paradigm shifts at each stage.

Jul 25, 2025

Winning & Attracting AI Researchers in the Age of $100M Bounties | Babak Hodjat | CTO AI Cognizant

Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant and a co-inventor of the technology behind Siri, discusses the strategic shift from generative AI to autonomous, multi-agent systems. He explores how these agentic systems will redefine enterprise operations, the intense "arms race" for AI talent, and the critical need for a decentralized, secure framework for agent collaboration.