The Highest Loop — swyx

AI Engineer NYC: OpenAI, Blackstone, Ramp, Coinbase, Apollo, Citadel, Basis, Runway, Compute Trading

Live from the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel in New York City, AI Engineer New York 2026 is an…

I Spent Two Years Building the Median — Hariprasad Sudharshan

After two years of intense solo building, Hariprasad Sudharshan discovers that other people have independently produced

Paving the Road to Production: Governed Enterprise AI Agents — Harish Gaggar, Credit Karma

Register an agent through an internal portal and receive more than a repository: the deployment also needs identity, mem

Your AI Isn’t the Problem. Your Infrastructure Is. — Jiachen Jiang, Coder

A coding agent deletes production data despite a written code freeze. Jiachen Jiang uses that incident to distinguish a

How to Actually Tokenmaxx and Save Millions — Alvin Pane, OutRival

A cheaper candidate model disagrees with the production model on 18% of examples. Reject it immediately, or first ask ho

Rebuilding CI for AI-Scale Commit Volume — Gautam Korlam, SonarSource

A coding agent can produce changes faster than the queues that test, review and merge them. Gautam Korlam examines that

Open Models Are Changing the Economics of Small Business AI

Open models are closing the gap with closed AI systems, slashing costs for small businesses and startups. Here's why founders…

AI productivity: Give Every Saved Hour a Job

AI productivity creates room to test better ideas. Learn how founders can turn saved time into customer value, with lessons…

Eval platform maturity: why it’s harder than it looks

Why building an eval platform is harder than a spreadsheet: eval maturity stages, messy agent traces, and how evals pair…

AI agents pay off when you fix the process first

AI agents pay off only after you map and sort the work. Forward deployed engineers show how to rebuild real…