Jul 15, 2026

Omnigent: Composition, Control, and Collaboration for AI Agents

Denny Lee discusses the industry's shift to meta-harnesses like Omnigent, which enables hot-swappable AI models and agents, illustrated by his personal project of using debating agents to plan a matcha farm in Taiwan. He highlights how "tokenomics" is replaying the CapEx-to-OpEx cost shift, emphasizing the need for developer visibility, central governance, and auto-model selection to manage AI spend. The conversation also touches on the importance of databases for agent memory and accountability in AI-assisted workflows.

Jul 09, 2026

The Golden Age of AI Engineering — Alexander Embiricos & Romain Huet & Peter Steinberger, OpenAI

OpenAI's Romain Huet and Alexander Embiricos, joined by Peter Steinberger, outline the explosive progress of Codex at Dev Day 2024. They highlight the shift from manual coding to managing autonomous agents, enabled by rapid model iteration (every 6 weeks), open-source developer tools, and optimizations for cost-effectiveness ($1/M input tokens) and blazing inference speed (750 tokens/sec). The discussion centers on empowering AI engineers, not replacing them, by evolving agent capabilities, fostering an open ecosystem, and addressing future challenges like seamless local/cloud task execution and human attention as the new bottleneck in agent orchestration.

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 02, 2026

GitHub’s Agent Era: 14x Commits, 200M Developers, Copilot’s Next Act — Kyle Daigle

GitHub COO Kyle Daigle discusses the new era of AI agents from the inside. He covers how he uses AI for leadership, the shift from "mega-skills" to "micro-skills," and how GitHub is navigating a 14x growth in commits. The conversation goes deep on the evolution of Copilot, the future of PRs in an agent-driven world, the challenges of scaling, and Microsoft's vision for an ambient AI operating system.

May 24, 2026

⚡️ Why you should build Science Fiction — Sunil Pai, Cloudflare

Sunil Pai from Cloudflare discusses building efficient AI agent architectures using Durable Objects and Dynamic Workers as an alternative to platforms like Anthropic's. He explores the search for a standardized 'React-like' framework for agents, the culture of forking in open source, and encourages developers to pursue original, 'sci-fi' style projects.

May 13, 2026

Your Agent Can Now Train Models — Merve Noyan, Hugging Face

Merve Noyan from Hugging Face discusses how open-source models have achieved parity with closed-source counterparts, highlighting the Hugging Face ecosystem built to support this shift. She covers tools for model selection, local agent deployment, and the transformative "Hugging Face Skills" that allow agents to automate complex ML engineering tasks like fine-tuning models with a single prompt.