Talks and Events
What I heard in rooms that were not hackathons (those are in hackathons). Each write-up keeps the numbers people actually said and ends on what it means for one person building with agents.
Agents at work
- aaron-levie-agi-house-2026: Aaron Levie on why a chatbot on an old workflow tops out at about 30%
- running-production-with-agents-2026: PostHog, WorkOS, NVIDIA and Replit: the bottleneck moved from writing code to judging it
- robot-deployment-panels-agents-2026: robots break at the hands, agents at the connectors
Video and film
- la-tech-week-video-agents-live-worlds-2026: a one-line brief becomes a finished ad; worlds rendered live
- neu-wave-ai-film-festival-2026: a talking dog redone for under $100, and micro-dramas as the money
Ideas and numbers
- offline-dream-instanternity-stanford-2026: three Ljubljana philosophers on the web, comedy, and why film cannot not narrate
- stanford-ai-index-2026: the year in numbers, from investment to incidents
Where to go
- bay-area-hackerspaces-2026: hackerspaces, hacker houses and founder clubs around Silicon Valley, checked, with prices