Can AI be applied for Sustainability? It’s complicated… with Jeremy Tamanini | #78

Presenters Gaël Jeremy Tamanini Source Green IO Podcast AI for Good? Let’s Talk Applied AI for Sustainability 🌍💡 The buzz around Artificial Intelligence (AI) is undeniable. We hear grand promises of AI solving climate change, boosting biodiversity, and finding new vaccines. But beneath the hype, especially from big tech companies, lies a more nuanced reality. The massive adoption of AI carries significant environmental impacts, from water usage to carbon emissions and energy consumption. ...

May 5, 2026 · 6 min

Agents for Everything Else — swyx

Presenters swyx Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 AI Engineers: Building the Future, One Agent at a Time 🤖✨ The world of work is rapidly evolving, and at the forefront of this transformation are AI engineers. Swyx, co-founder of the AI Engineer conference, shares his journey and insights on how AI is not just a tool for coding, but a powerful force for augmenting human productivity and reimagining business operations. The Evolution of AI Engineer Conferences 🚀 Swyx has been a consistent voice at the AI Engineer conference, tracking the seismic shifts in AI adoption. ...

April 30, 2026 · 6 min

Replacing 12K LoC with a 200 LoC Skill — David Gomes, Cursor

Presenters David Gomes Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 🚀 From 15,000 Lines of Code to Markdown: The Future of Agentic Programming In the world of software development, we often equate progress with more code, more features, and more complexity. But what if the secret to building better tools isn’t writing more code, but deleting it? At a recent talk, David Gomes shared a radical transformation within Cursor, the AI-powered code editor. By leveraging the power of LLMs and Markdown, the team managed to replace a massive, complex feature with a few simple instructions. ...

April 30, 2026 · 4 min

Enabling Non-Engineers to Build AI Agents & Apps | Retool CEO

Presenters David Hsu Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia Source Product School podcast Building the Future: How Retool is Navigating the AI Revolution and Redefining Internal Tools 🚀 In the fast-paced world of tech, staying ahead means not just reacting to change, but actively shaping it. David Hsu, CEO of Retool, joins us to share his insights on how his company is not only adapting to the AI revolution but also leading the charge in transforming how businesses build and operate. From strategic pivots to the nitty-gritty of product development, David offers a candid look at the challenges and triumphs of building a company in the age of AI. ...

April 28, 2026 · 7 min

A Java Performance Quest: Taming Unsafe Code, Embracing Idiomatic Style & Debugging the Linux Kernel

Presenters Jaromir Hamala Source InfoQ podcast Unlocking Peak Performance: A Deep Dive into QuestDB, Java, and the Tinker’s Mindset with Jaromir Hamala 🚀💡 Are you navigating the tricky waters of moving AI from a proof-of-concept to reliable production? You are absolutely not alone! Many engineering teams face this exact challenge. Senior engineers and architects at events like QCon AI Boston are already sharing how they’ve made that shift, revealing scaling patterns, lessons learned, and what they’d do differently. But what if the core of your high-performance system is built on a technology many still consider “slow”? ...

April 27, 2026 · 6 min