1. Smarter Models Killed the Harness. Here's What's Left — Jediah Katz, SpaceXAI Is the agent harness dead? Jediah Katz, Cursor's longest-tenured agent-harness engineer and now at SpaceX, explains why fancy harnesses no longer add coding intelligence: the data 10/20 03:00 ♡
2. Why Buying Companies Beats Selling Them AI — Prathik Naidu, Long Lake Deploying AI into real businesses is hard: org charts are messy, trust takes decades, and service firms don't scale like software. Prathik Naidu, founding partner at Long Lake, exp 10/19 17:00 ♡
3. Version-Controlled Search: The Web as It Was — Ryan Ahern, Exa Ryan Ahern of Exa introduces Exa Snapshot, which lets agents search the web as it looked on any past date. He covers why search quality matters when agents broker most searches, ho 10/19 16:00 ♡
4. Backtest Your Agent Against Yesterday's Web — Ryan Ahern, Exa How do you know whether your agent would have made the right call? Ryan Ahern of Exa shows how to use version-controlled search to see the web exactly as it was on a past date, the 10/19 15:00 ♡
5. Why AI Agents Still Won't Pay for Anything — Jan Curn, Apify x402, AP2, ACP, MPP, TAP, UCP: every big fintech and payments company now has an agent payment standard, but real volume is close to zero. Jan Curn, founder of Apify, walks the age 10/19 07:00 ♡
6. Stop Telling Agents How — Dan Barrett, Raymond Weitekamp & Jose Montes de Oca, OpenProse Say what you want, not how to get it. The OpenProse team shows how to write multi-agent workflows as declarative contracts in plain markdown, which any harness (Claude Code, Codex 10/19 03:00 ♡
7. Insurance Claims Are AI's Messiest Data Problem — Denys Linkov, Wisedocs Insurance claims are full of handwriting, faxes, duplicates and 8GB PDFs. Denys Linkov of Wisedocs explains why that unstructured data is both the biggest barrier and the biggest o 10/18 17:00 ♡
8. Evals for High-Stakes AI Agents — Doneyli De Jesus & Annabell Schäfer, Langfuse A hands-on workshop on evaluating AI applications where mistakes are expensive. Annabell Schäfer and Doneyli De Jesus from Langfuse use a banking assistant to walk through the whol 10/18 16:00 ♡
9. Teach Your Agent to Prove It's Done — Nick Nisi & Zack Proser, WorkOS Your agent says it's done. Is it? Nick Nisi and Zack Proser from WorkOS show how to build verification loops that let coding agents check their own work. They cover clear goals, CL 10/18 15:00 ♡
10. An AI Agent Got Its User Banned From Resy — Keycard, JPMorgan Chase & AAuth An AI agent trying to book a restaurant made 200 calls in 90 minutes and got its own user banned from Resy. It had good intentions. It just had no limits. Keycard's Allie Howe mode 10/18 07:00 ♡
