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…
A developer's inbox filter reveals 26 engineering newsletters that survived a strict three-week unsubscribe rule, with AI engineering emerging as its own discipline. The list includes newer publicatio…
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…
Sam Bhagwat, founder/CEO of Mastra and author of 'Principles of Building AI Agents,' argues that developer relations in the age of AI is about 'aura-maxxing'—creating unique, time-and-place-specific c…
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…
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model at least twice the size of Opus 4.8, with API pricing at roughly 2x Opus and benchmark improvements including a jump from 13.4% to 29.3% on the …
Cognition raised $1 billion in a Series D funding round that values the company at $26 billion, marking a 2.5x valuation increase from its September Series C. The AI agent lab now projects over $1 bil…
Fireworks AI is in talks to raise a $15 billion valuation round, while Baseten is raising an $11 billion round, marking a rapid progression from unicorn to decacorn status in the AI inference infrastr…