AIE CODE Day 2: ft Google Deepmind, Anthropic, Cursor, Netflix, Cline, OpenAI, Meta, and METR

NOVEMBER 21 - all times in EST * 9:06 am – Opening Remarks Swyx | Organizer, AI Engineer * 9:11 am – Stop Building Agents Barry Zhang | AI Engineer, Anthropic Mahesh Murag | AI Engineer, Anthropic * 9:31 am – No Vibes Allowed: Solving Hard Problems in Complex Codebases Dex Horthy | Founder, HumanLayer * 9:51 am – Building a fast frontier model with RL Lee Robinson | Head of DX, Cursor * 10:11 am – From Code Snippets to Codebases: Then, Now, and What’s Next for Coding Evals Naman Jain | Engineering, Cursor * 11:00 am – Code World Model: Building World Models for Computation Jacob Kahn | Research Scientist, Meta * 11:20 am – Efficient Reinforcement Learning Linden Li | Co-founder, Applied Computer Rhythm Garg | Co-founder, Applied Computer * 11:40 am – RL Environments at Scale Will Brown | Engineering, Prime Intellect * 12:00 pm – Agent Reinforcement Fine Tuning Will Hang | Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI Cathy Zhou | Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI *12:20 pm – From Vibe Coding To Vibe Engineering Kitze | Developer & Creator, Independent * 1:45 pm – Proactive Agents Kath Korevec | Engineering, Google Labs * 2:05 pm – Making Codebases "Agent-Ready" Eno Reyes | Engineering, Factory AI * 2:25 pm – Amp Code: Next-Generation AI Coding Beyang Liu | Co-founder & CTO, Amp Code / Sourcegraph * 2:45 pm – Using AI-Generated Kernels to Instantly Speed Up PyTorch Natalie Serrino | Cofounder, Gimlet Labs * 3:05 pm – The Infinite Software Crisis Jake Nations | Engineering, Netflix * 4:00 pm – AGI: The Path Forward Eiso Kant | CEO, Poolside * 4:20 pm – Continual System-Prompt Learning for Code Agents Aparna Dhinakaran | Co-founder & CPO, Arize * 4:40 pm – Hard-Won Lessons from Building Effective AI Coding Agents Nik Pash | Creator, Cline * 5:00 pm – Benchmarks vs economics: the AI capability measurement gap Joel Becker | Researcher, METR * 5:20 pm – Defying Gravity Kevin Hou, Google Antigravity