Hearing how Uber scaled to 1.500 AI agents made me realize just how quickly things can spiral when those agents start acting faster than humans can keep up.
When was the last time a dev conference taught you something you couldn’t learn online? Probably never. But that’s the wrong benchmark - conferences were never just about information.
Andy Skipper, founder of CTO Craft, warns that even seasoned CTOs struggle with the pressure to deliver AI-driven productivity while balancing innovation and reality.
Roles aren’t disappearing - capabilities are expanding, and often the problem isn’t the system, it’s the prompt. I saw that firsthand at this year’s Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco.
I was at Pragmatic Summit when Chip Huyen reframed the AI conversation - if any product can be generated from a clear description, code isn’t the constraint, and true value lies elsewhere.
I was in the room at this year’s Pragmatic Summit when Laura Tacho dropped the numbers: nearly all developers use AI coding assistants, over a quarter of production code is AI-written - and yet productivity gains haven’t budged past 10%.
Building with LLMs is nothing like traditional software. If we want something that actually works in production, we have to test it, monitor it, and keep iterating on real customer data.
17 countries, 20 hours, and a lot of voice-driven experiments: Warsaw became a playground for builders testing the limits of AI, gaming, and storytelling at the Project Europe x ElevenLabs hackathon
If you heard a strange buzzing over Zagreb last week in November, don’t worry - that was just 80 developers trying to outsmart the internet at the SheepAI hackathon.