Apr 01, 2026

"We're Not Writing Code by Hand Anymore. That's Over." | Owen Jennings & David Haber - The a16z Show

Owen Jennings, Executive Officer at Block, details the company's radical restructuring (40% workforce reduction) driven by AI's impact on productivity. He explains how Block is now operating with smaller squads, leveraging internal AI tools like Goose and Builder Bot, and shipping AI-native products like Money Bot and Manager Bot to deliver personalized, generative UIs for millions of users, emphasizing a future where unique understanding forms the ultimate business moat.

Mar 12, 2026

From Coder to Manager: Navigating the Shift to Agentic Engineering with Notion Co-Founder Simon Last

Notion's Co-Founder, Simon Last, discusses their evolution from a writing assistant to a platform for custom AI agents. He covers the technical hurdles of semantic indexing, the internal shift toward using coding agents to build Notion, and the fundamental transition from a tool where humans do the work to one where humans manage a swarm of agents.

Feb 24, 2026

Builders Unscripted: Ep. 1 - Peter Steinberger, Creator of OpenClaw

Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, discusses his journey into open source, the unexpected success of his AI agent, and how his development workflow has been fundamentally transformed by using agentic AI tools like Codex.

Dec 23, 2025

Developer Experience in the Age of AI Coding Agents – Max Kanat Alexander, Capitol One

Max Kanat-Alexander explores the rapid changes in software engineering driven by AI and identifies 'no-regrets investments' that will benefit development teams regardless of the future. He argues that by focusing on foundational developer experience principles—such as standardizing tools, improving validation, structuring code for testability, and refining the code review process—organizations can create a virtuous cycle of productivity for both human developers and their AI agent counterparts.

Oct 26, 2025

How Block is becoming the most AI-native enterprise in the world | Dhanji R. Prasanna

Block CTO Dhanji R. Prasanna shares how the company is becoming AI-native. He discusses their internal open-source AI agent, Goose, which saves employees 8-10 hours weekly, how they measure productivity gains, and the organizational changes that have had an even greater impact than AI tooling.

Oct 23, 2025

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

Chip Huyen, an AI expert and author of 'AI Engineering', explains the realities of building successful AI applications. She covers the nuances of model training, the critical role of data quality in RAG systems, the mechanics of RLHF, and why the future of AI improvement lies in post-training, system-level thinking, and solving UX problems rather than just chasing the newest models.