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I Believe Everything My Agents Tell Me: Three Levels of Review — Corey Gallon, Rexmore
A short, practical talk on three levels of reviewing agent-written code so you don't blindly trust what your agents report.
Oct 13 · 12:25
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I Built the Ultimate AI Board of Advisors (free claude skill)
Nate Herk builds a multi-persona 'board of advisors' as a Claude skill and shares it free, a useful pattern to copy.
Oct 13 · 14:45
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David Silver and Lasse Espeholt of Ineffable Intelligence: A Superlearner for the Age of Experience
Sequoia sits down with David Silver and Lasse Espeholt of Ineffable Intelligence on their 'superlearner' thesis, a good look at how a frontier-research startup pitches…
Oct 13 · 1:08:03
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Theo examines why AI costs aren't falling as expected and what that means for the economics of products built on LLMs.
Oct 12 · 18:18
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Decoupling the Brain from the Hands: Claude Managed Agents (Part 1 of 4) — Anthropic
Anthropic's own walkthrough of Claude Managed Agents, explaining the brain/hands split that underpins the platform. It is the best starting point for the four-part…
Oct 12 · 17:40
VideoAI EngineerGTM
Inside the AI Economy: What Stripe's Data Reveals — Nilofer Rajpurkar, Stripe
Stripe's payment data shows where AI businesses are actually making money. Useful for pricing and go-to-market decisions.
Oct 12 · 20:50
VideoAI EngineerAgents
Build a Research Agent with Claude Managed Agents (Part 2 of 4) — Anthropic
A hands-on build of a research agent on Claude Managed Agents, led by Anthropic. Useful for seeing the platform work end to end.
Oct 12 · 35:36
VideoAI EngineerAgents
Scheduled Agents, Dreaming and Q&A: Claude Managed Agents (Part 3 of 4) — Anthropic
Anthropic walks through scheduled agents and the 'dreaming' feature in Claude Managed Agents, with Q&A on running long-lived agents in production.
Oct 12 · 26:31
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Claude Managed Agents Q&A: Evals, CI/CD and Multi-Tenancy (Part 4 of 4) — Anthropic
Anthropic's closing session in the Managed Agents series covers evals, CI/CD and multi-tenancy, the unglamorous parts of shipping agents.
Oct 12 · 18:58
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Recursive Self-Improvement and the Future of AI
An a16z discussion of recursive self-improvement and what it could mean for how frontier labs and builders plan ahead.
Oct 12 · 32:07
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Just-in-Time Ontologies: What Cheap Intelligence Means for Data — Hrishi Olickel, Southbridge AI
Hrishi Olickel argues that cheap intelligence lets you build ontologies on demand instead of designing schemas up front, with concrete data-pipeline implications.
Oct 12 · 21:03
VideoAI EngineerVibe-coding
Please… Enough with the Sloppy, One-Shot SaaS Replacements — Mahmoud Abdelwahab, Railway
Railway's Mahmoud Abdelwahab makes the case against sloppy one-shot SaaS replacements and shows what production-quality AI-built apps need.
Oct 12 · 13:21
VideoAI EngineerInfra
Your GPU Neighbor Can Hear Your Model — Branislav Brzak, Stealthium
A security talk on how a co-tenant on a shared GPU can leak information about your model, which matters if you serve on shared hardware.
Oct 12 · 13:21
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How to Make an Ad with a Jingle using AI (Full Workflow)
ElevenLabs shows a complete workflow for producing an ad with a generated jingle, from script to final audio.
Oct 12 · 7:37
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Sandboxes Aren't Optional: 4 Ways to Isolate Coding Agents — Robert Brennan, OpenHands
OpenHands' Robert Brennan compares four ways to isolate coding agents and explains why sandboxing is mandatory. A practical talk from a team that ships agents.
Oct 12 · 14:23
VideoAI EngineerInfra
How Inference Keeps Up with Our Insatiable Need for Tokens — Cerebras & Gimlet Labs
Cerebras and Gimlet Labs discuss how inference infrastructure can keep up with rapidly growing token demand. Relevant to anyone serving models at scale.
Oct 12 · 22:47
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An hour-long walkthrough of moving from writing code by hand to building automated software factories with coding agents.
Oct 11 · 1:00:57
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Build AI Research Agents with Claude Code – Full Tutorial
A full-length tutorial on building AI research agents with Claude Code, with real code from start to finish.
Oct 11 · 54:06
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I Tried 100+ Github Repos for Claude. These 6 Are the Best
Nate Herk tests more than 100 GitHub repos for Claude and shares the six most useful, which could save you a lot of searching.
Oct 11 · 10:37
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How To Make Edits With Claude Opus 5.5 + Higgsfield Katana
Official Higgsfield walkthrough of driving video edits with Claude Opus 5.5 and the Katana tool, an agent-plus-video workflow.
Oct 11 · 13:25
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Latency Is a Budget. Humanlike Is the Goal. — Jesse Hall, LiveKit
LiveKit's Jesse Hall treats voice-agent latency as a budget and shows how to make conversations feel humanlike.
Oct 11 · 17:01
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Stop Renting Intelligence: The Train-to-Deploy Loop for Specialized AI — Fireworks AI
Fireworks AI lays out a train-to-deploy loop for specialized models, making the case for owning your model instead of renting frontier APIs.
Oct 11 · 19:18
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A short, clear explainer on DeepSeek's latest approach to the long-context memory problem. Good for a quick view of the technique.
Oct 11 · 5:38
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How to Build a Sales Machine | Max Freeman, Ramp
Ramp's Max Freeman explains how to build a sales machine, in a long interview with a practitioner who runs one.
Oct 10 · 1:12:07
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A technical look at the efficiency tricks behind DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash and why they matter for serving cost and long-context performance.
Oct 10 · 25:04
VideoAll-In PodcastFundraising
Is Claude Conscious? Pope Rejects, Model Welfare Movement, OpenAI's Math Backlash, France Riots
The All-In crew on the model welfare debate, OpenAI's math backlash and the market backdrop, the weekly read on how top investors see the AI cycle.
Oct 10 · 1:33:15
VideoAI EngineerInfra
From 15% to 90% GPU Utilization: Fix the Data Pipeline, Not the Model
An AI Engineer talk on taking GPU utilization from 15% to 90% by fixing the data pipeline instead of touching the model.
Oct 10 · 17:02
VideoAI EngineerAgents
Small Models, Big Results: Training a Finance Agent for Under $500 — Charles Dickens, Snorkel AI
Snorkel walks through training a small-model finance agent for under $500, with concrete cost and results numbers.
Oct 10 · 17:16
VideoCognitive RevolutionModels
How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning
Goodfire's Eric Bigelow explains how models decide, covering critical tokens, phase shifts and in-context learning, in a long interpretability deep dive.
Oct 10 · 2:00:51
VideoAI EngineerAgents
The Lethal Trifecta Is Already on Your Laptops — Michael Patterson, Coder
A talk from Coder on the lethal trifecta (private data, untrusted input, external actions) in agents already running on developer laptops, with practical mitigations.
Oct 10 · 20:44
VideoAI EngineerModels
How MiniMax M3 Was Built: Sparse Attention and Native Multimodality — Olive Song
An inside look at how MiniMax M3 was built, covering its sparse attention design and native multimodality, from someone on the team.
Oct 10 · 15:03
VideoAI EngineerInfra
Beyond RAG: A Relational Context Engine That Cuts Token Burn — Unblocked
Shows how a relational context engine can cut token burn compared with plain RAG, a direct cost and retrieval win for agent builders.
Oct 10 · 19:44
VideoAI EngineerInfra
Zero Cold Starts: Serverless AI Agents on Akamai Functions — Thorsten Hans
A builder talk on running serverless AI agents with zero cold starts on Akamai Functions, with concrete serving trade-offs.
Oct 10 · 22:37
VideoAI EngineerVibe-coding
From Your Laptop to the Pipeline: Scaling Custom Agents with GitHub Copilot
Walks through taking custom agents from a laptop into a real pipeline with GitHub Copilot, aimed at teams that ship.
Oct 10 · 19:39
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n8n Full Course – Architect Scalable AI Automations from Scratch
A full 43-minute freeCodeCamp course on architecting scalable AI automations in n8n from scratch, with real workflows rather than toy demos.
Oct 9 · 43:06
VideoOpenAIVibe-coding
Building the Codex community
OpenAI's official look at the community growing around Codex, useful for finding workflows and people to learn from.
Oct 9 · 5:39
VideoLangChainAgents
Three Questions Every Agent Engineer Should Be Able To Answer
LangChain gives a practical checklist of questions every agent engineer should be able to answer about their system before it ships.
Oct 9 · 14:08
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Beam: The Great American Open Model with ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin
Reflection AI CEO Misha Laskin on Beam, the lab's new American open-weight frontier model, and why open models matter for builders and national competitiveness.
Oct 9 · 1:10:49
VideoTechCrunchFundraising
Build Mode Bonus: Inside the VC Decision-Making Process with True Ventures' Puneet Agarwal
True Ventures partner Puneet Agarwal opens up the VC decision-making process on TechCrunch's Build Mode: what gets a yes, what kills a deal and how to run a round.
Oct 9 · 56:44
VideoClaudeVibe-coding
Getting started with Claude Code Projects
Anthropic's official getting-started walkthrough for Claude Code Projects, the new way to organize context and work across a codebase.
Oct 9 · 4:33