LAI #139: Fewer Tokens Cost Us More
A production AI tutor's context engineering experiments, detailed in the newsletter LAI #139, found that reducing tokens via summarization increased costs by roughly 2x despite sending 41% fewer token…
A production AI tutor's context engineering experiments, detailed in the newsletter LAI #139, found that reducing tokens via summarization increased costs by roughly 2x despite sending 41% fewer token…
A new report from Faros, based on data from 22,000 developers, shows code churn up 861%, incidents per pull request up 243%, review time up 441%, and 31% more PRs merged without review, signaling the …
Anthropic's Claude Code team members Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar said during a fireside chat at the AI Engineer World's Fair that coding agents have shifted engineering from months-long planning cycles…
An AI training workshop succeeds when attendees leave with a working result they can inspect, rerun, and extend, according to a system documented by an unnamed facilitator. At the 2026 AI Engineer Wor…
OpenAI confirmed GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna will launch Thursday, and Claude Fable 5 returned July 1 after a government shutdown. At the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco, over 6,000 attende…
At the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco, the central theme was that AI models are no longer the bottleneck; instead, human attention has become the scarce resource, as teams adopt multi-agent…
Towards AI open-sourced its production AI tutor app, used by students to ask questions about AI engineering, RAG, and agents. The release includes the full system for local running and customization, …
Adobe is experimenting with 'agentic sites' that generate personalized web pages in real time based on a visitor's intent, using LLMs to assemble content from existing material. Principal Scientist Ca…
Nick Nisi and swyx taught a workshop titled "Lifestyles of the AI-Native" at the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco, where attendees learned voice coding, agent loops, verification gates, and s…
AI Engineer conference founder swyx praised WorkOS's workshops as the gold standard for AI Engineer content at the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco. The workshops treat sessions as products w…
Roland Gavrilescu, co-founder of Introspection, introduced the concept of autoresearch at the AI Engineer World's Fair, describing a feedback loop where AI agents maintain and improve systems using si…
Cursor's VP of Forward Deployed Engineering, Pauline Brunet, detailed how the company deploys AI agents across the enterprise software development lifecycle, building teams of experienced engineers to…
The AI Engineer World's Fair on Tuesday focused on loops, agent engineering, and software factories, with speakers emphasizing the use of persistent coding agents and automated development lifecycles.…
Natalie Meurer, Head of Agent Engineering at Sierra, argues that forward deployed engineering is defined more by customer accountability than by a specific skill set, and that product and customer-fac…
Ahmad Osman, founder of Osmantic, argued at the AI Engineer World's Fair that local AI is rapidly catching up to proprietary frontier models, driven by shrinking gaps in open-source LLMs and improved …
The AI Engineer World's Fair continues with Issue #2 of The Daily Context, featuring a new puzzle called 'Context Connections' built using AI Studio and deployed to Cloud Run. The puzzle challenges at…
The AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 sold out all ticket tiers before opening, drawing over 6,000 attendees to Moscone West in San Francisco. Founded by Shawn 'swyx' Wang, the conference features 29 trac…
At the AI Engineer World's Fair, workshops shifted from RAG and prompt engineering toward evals and open models, reflecting a broader industry focus on measuring and trusting AI outputs. A developer a…
The 2026 AI Engineer World's Fair kicked off at Moscone West with 7,000 attendees, up from 1,500 last year. Organizer swyx introduced NEO (New Engineer Orientation) to help attendees build genuine con…
At the AI Engineer World's Fair Expo, scientists gathered to discuss AI's impact on their fields, noting that while AI aids coding research apps, it remains experimental and prone to errors in physica…