AI Engineer Code Summit 2026 · Live Conference Log

Daily Capture Log

Archive of the three conference days in San Francisco (Nov 10–12, 2026).

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Schedule

Everything on, in time order. GO and maybe are my picks; tap a talk for its abstract.

    Captured so far

    34 talks · 211 notes · 6 themes

    The True Cost of AI Coding Scott Tolinski7/7 built
    MC Intro Corey Quinn1/7 built
    cloudflare is a neolab Michelle Chen7/7 built
    All Code Is Slop (Except Mine) Lauren Tan7/7 built
    Heal Your Agents, Don't Just Grade Them Khasimul Asif Mohammad, Sudhir Tonse7/7 built
    I love you so jevving much Diogo Almeida7/7 built
    Your Judge Is Hallucinating Too Brian Kennedy5/7 built
    2026 in LLMs Simon Willison7/7 built
    Exploring Claude’s frontier Lance Martin7/7 built
    Judgement is the Last Job Ishaan Dey7/7 built
    Brownfield Factories Justin McCarthy7/7 built
    Thariq Shihipar, Independent Thariq Shihipar7/7 built

    Latest notes

    Follow up on the Pi talk.11-12 5:40 PM
    Follow up on the ArtCraft talk.11-12 5:40 PM
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