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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In the Land of AI Agents, the Verifiers Are King — Tariq Shaukat, Sonar
7.2K views 185 likes 11 comments
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Special Topics in Kernels, RL, Reward Hacking in Agents — Daniel Han, Unsloth
7.2K views 307 likes 15 comments
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Modern Post-Training: A Deep Dive — Will Brown, Prime Intellect
7.2K views 175 likes 3 comments
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29 —
"Software engineering is not about writing code" — Benoit Schillings, Google DeepMind VP of Research
6.9K views 136 likes 12 comments
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30 —
Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows - Erik Hanchett, AWS
6.4K views 141 likes 10 comments
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31 —
Recursive Model Improvement — Lee Robinson, Cursor, SpaceXAI
6.3K views 154 likes 8 comments
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32 —
HTML Is All Agents Need — James Russo, HeyGen
6.2K views 182 likes 10 comments
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33 —
AI System Design: From Idea to Production - Apoorva Joshi, MongoDB
6K views 164 likes 10 comments
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34 —
A Practitioner's Guide to Graphs - Tim Ainge, Good Collective
5.9K views 209 likes 5 comments
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35 —
Building an Autonomous Engineering Org - Angie Jones, Agentic AI Foundation
5.5K views 212 likes 14 comments
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36 —
"I've never seen anything scarier than an LLM with tool calls." — Erik Meijer aka @HeadinTheBox
4.9K views 113 likes 4 comments
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37 —
Design Patterns for AI Trust: Juries, Libraries, and Agent Tiers — Alex Bauer, Upside.tech
4.9K views 84 likes 1 comments
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38 —
Imagination Engineering: "Live in the future and then build what's missing."
4.9K views 160 likes 11 comments
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39 —
The Agentic AI Engineer - Benedikt Sanftl, Mutagent
4.8K views 72 likes 8 comments
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40 —
The Pipeline Is Dead - Iris ten Teije, Sky Valley Ambient Computing
4.7K views 68 likes 17 comments
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41 —
The Log Is The Agent - Ishaan Sehgal, Omnara
4.5K views 96 likes 15 comments
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42 —
Build Evals That Actually Matter - Nick Ung & Akshay Sharma, Lyft
4.3K views 122 likes 7 comments
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43 —
Frontier results, on device - RL Nabors, Arize
4.2K views 106 likes 6 comments
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44 —
Agents Building Agents - Alfonso Graziano, Nearform
4.2K views 123 likes 4 comments
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45 —
Build AI Systems for Discernment, Not Approval - Angel Ortmann Lee, Duolingo
4.1K views 129 likes 4 comments
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46 —
Your agent architecture has a half-life of 6 months — Dan Farrelly, CTO, Inngest
4K views 80 likes 4 comments
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Should AI Engineers Still Read Code in 2026? The Z/L Continuum — Alex Volkov, ThursdAI
4K views 93 likes 12 comments
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48 —
MCP Apps: Primitives, discovery, and the Future of Software - Pietro Zullo, Manufact, Inc
3.8K views 80 likes 3 comments
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49 —
Computer-Use 2.0: Agents Just Got Multi-Cursor — Francesco Bonacci, Cua
3.7K views 83 likes 6 comments
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50 —
Your AI Product Will Fail Unless You Can Explain It - Veronica Hylak, Hey AI
3.7K views 204 likes 17 comments
