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Presenters Michael Stiefel Matthew Liste Source InfoQ podcast The Art of the Unsung Hero: Navigating the Complex World of Systems Engineering 🛠️✨ In the fast-paced world of technology, we often celebrate the flashy new apps and groundbreaking software. But what about the bedrock upon which all of this is built? The complex, often invisible, systems that keep everything running smoothly? This is the domain of the systems engineer, a role that Matthew Liss, with over 30 years of experience at giants like American Express, JP Morgan Chase, and Goldman Sachs, deeply understands. In a recent conversation on the Architects podcast, Matthew shared his unique perspective on what it means to be a systems engineer, the challenges they face, and the profound satisfaction derived from building resilient and scalable platforms. ...

Presenters Sunil Pai Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Beyond Tool Calls: Unleashing the Power of Code Generation with AI 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever felt the frustration of AI struggling with complex tasks, especially when dealing with a multitude of services and tools? Sunil Pai, from Cloudflare and creator of PartyKit, dives deep into a revolutionary approach that’s changing the game: code generation. Forget the clunky JSON back-and-forth; Sunil introduces us to a world where AI writes code to get things done, unlocking unprecedented efficiency and flexibility. ...

Presenters David Soria Parra Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 The Agent Ecosystem: From Demos to Production-Ready Connectivity 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! David Soria Parra here, and I’m buzzing with excitement about the incredible evolution of the agent ecosystem. We’ve come a long way from simple specs and local tools to a vibrant, production-ready landscape. Let’s dive into what’s happening and where we’re headed! MCP Applications: Shipping Intelligence, Not Just Code 💡 Imagine an agent that ships its own interface, not as a plugin or a hardcoded feature, but as a fully functional application served over an MCP server. This is the power of MCP applications! You can take this server, deploy it anywhere – the cloud, ChatGPT, VS Code Cursor – and it just works. This requires a crucial element: semantics. Both the client and the server need to understand each other, how to render the UI, and that an interface is indeed coming. This is where a robust protocol becomes essential. ...

Presenters Raia Hadsell Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Beyond the Chatbot: Exploring the Frontier of Intelligence with Raia Hadsell 🚀 At the recent AI Engineer conference in London, Raia Hadsell, VP of Research at Google DeepMind, took the stage to remind us that the future of AI is much broader than just text boxes and chat interfaces. With a background spanning from the philosophy of religion to a PhD in convolutional neural networks under Yann LeCun, Hadsell now leads a massive team of 1,200 scientists and engineers across 10 global labs. ...

Presenters Armin Ronacher Cristina Poncela Cubeiro Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Embrace the Friction: Steering AI Agents in Software Development 🚀💡 “Ship without friction.” Sounds like a dream, doesn’t it? A smooth, unhindered path from idea to deployment. But what if that frictionless journey secretly leads to a cliff edge? That’s the intriguing question Armin Ronacher, a software development veteran with 20 years in the open-source space (and creator of the Python framework Flask!), and Cristina Poncela Cubeiro, a self-described “native AI engineer,” challenged us with. Their message is clear: in the age of AI agents, we need to add a little bit of friction back into our development process. ...