Software Engineering
9 primers covering the patterns, pitfalls, and external resources from this track.
Fail Fast, Fix Faster: Why Speed Beats Smarts in Agent Loops
A 10x faster, marginally competent model can iterate to success before a frontier model finishes thinking.
Building Frameworks That Build Systems
Don't hand-craft 200 interactive games. Build the system that builds them.
Why AI Coding Tools May Not Move Your Delivery Metrics
Coding is rarely the bottleneck. Find the real one before you tool the wrong stage.
Constitutional Prompting: Reliable Agents Without the Iteration Tax
A small set of explicit principles beats an ever-growing list of instructions.
Multi-Armed Bandits: A Scientific Shotgun for LLM Evals
A/B testing is too rigid for AI. Bandits adapt traffic in real time as evidence accumulates.
Engineering for the Agentic Web: When 50% of Traffic Is Robots
Pages aren't just for humans anymore. Design for agents reading on their behalf.
The AI Control Plane: Infrastructure as Data
When agents act on your infrastructure, your infra becomes the context window.
Your Agent Doesn't Like Your APIs
APIs designed for humans reading docs are not the same as APIs an agent can use.
Agentic Self-Healing in Production
Pipeline breaks at 2am. Nobody's watching. By morning it's fixed.