AI Engineer World's Fair 2026
Talks from AI Engineer World's Fair 2026, drafted from the AI Engineer channel's own playlists. Editorial metadata is best-effort parsed and under review.
Event 1
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Why Agentic Systems Need Ontologies — Frank Coyle, UC Berkeley
406.3K views 9.8K likes 496 comments
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Why Software Factories Fail
368.5K views 4.9K likes 228 comments
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Building Great Agent Skills: The Missing Manual
174.5K views 4.8K likes 112 comments
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Field Guide to Fable — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic
173.4K views 1.9K likes 71 comments
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Understanding is the new bottleneck — Geoffrey Litt, Notion
140.7K views 4.3K likes 182 comments
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Anthropic's CCA Exam as a Field-Guide for Agentic Engineering — Frank Coyle, UC Berkeley
125.4K views 1.8K likes 62 comments
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How We Solved Agent Building — Andrew Qu, Vercel
119.1K views 829 likes 33 comments
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8 ↑1
From AI-Assisted to AI-Native: Building a Frontier Development Team — Clare Liguori, AWS
96.4K views 1.1K likes 49 comments
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9 ↑15
Jev Creator: Why RLCD beats RLHF
96.1K views 1.5K likes 70 comments
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10 ↓2
WF2026: Software Factories & Keynotes ft. Microsoft, OpenAI, OpenClaw, Z.ai (GLM), MiniMax, HF
95.8K views 573 likes 23 comments
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11 ↓1
Everything we knew about software has changed — Theo Browne, @t3dotgg
94.3K views 3.3K likes 172 comments
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12 ↓1
"The engineer of the future is the person who is able to choose what is worth doing." — Addy Osmani
84.1K views 848 likes 29 comments
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13 ↓1
From fork() to Fleet: Designing an Agent Sandbox Cloud — Abhishek Bhardwaj, OpenAI
83.8K views 390 likes 12 comments
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14 ↓1
Don't Ship Skills Without Evals — Philipp Schmid, Google DeepMind
82.1K views 1.6K likes 44 comments
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15 ↓1
Building Closed-Loop Evals for a Multimodal Agent at Scale — Soumya Gupta & Jai Chopra, Uber
81.7K views 1K likes 34 comments
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16 ↓1
The Golden Age of AI Engineering — Alexander Embiricos & Romain Huet & Peter Steinberger, OpenAI
75.9K views 407 likes 14 comments
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17 ↓1
Every company should have a Brain — Garry Tan, Y Combinator
75.3K views 1.7K likes 116 comments
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Homa: The End of TCP for AI Clusters — John Ousterhout, Stanford
70.7K views 750 likes 65 comments
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19 ↓2
The Future Is Domain-Specific Agents - Justin Schroeder, StandardAgents
68.4K views 1.9K likes 146 comments
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20 ↓2
Forward Deployed Engineering 101 — Kevin Bai, Anthropic, ex Palantir & Rippling Founding FDE
59.7K views 1.1K likes 46 comments
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21 ↓2
Thinner Agents on a Smarter Substrate: The Ontology-based Semantic Layer — Emil Eifrem, Neo4j
58.4K views 1.2K likes 69 comments
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22 ↓2
Full Workshop: Setting Yourself Up for Success —Jason Liu, OpenAI Codex
49.5K views 814 likes 18 comments
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23 ↓1
Generative UI... in Python? — Jeremiah Lowin, Prefect
48.9K views 362 likes 23 comments
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24 ↓3
AI’s Jurassic Park Period — Aaron Stanley, dbt Labs
48.5K views 106 likes 8 comments
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25 ↓2
The unreasonable effectiveness of BM25 for agentic search — Jo Kristian Bergum, Hornet.dev
46.6K views 414 likes 8 comments
