Oct 21, 2026

AI Cut Our Research Time From 7 Days to 15 Minutes — Gareth Yoder, Vanguard

Gareth Yoder of Vanguard describes modernizing a cash ledger handling up to 30 million calls per day by running data, producer, and consumer migrations in parallel. Key themes include exposing legacy code to AI through an MCP server, reducing a seven-day research cycle to fifteen minutes, reimagining rather than lifting and shifting, and maintaining observability throughout the migration.

Oct 11, 2026

Building AI Agents with Real-Time Web Data — Yohan Raju, Bright Data

Yohan Raju of Bright Data shows how an AI agent can combine a live Amazon listing with Reddit sentiment to produce a purchase recommendation, arguing that agents need fresh, structured web data rather than relying only on pre-trained knowledge or pre-indexed retrieval.