Data Engineering

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. ...

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. ...

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”? ...

Presenters Peter Gostev Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Beyond the Hype: What Large Language Models Still Struggle With 🤯 We’re constantly bombarded with dazzling charts showing the relentless upward march of AI capabilities. Every new model release feels like a giant leap towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), leaving us in a state of awe and perhaps a little anxiety. But are we being too optimistic? Peter Gostev, in a recent talk, dives into the less glamorous side of LLMs, exploring what they don’t do well and why that matters. ...

Presenters Matt Pocock Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 🚀 Why Software Fundamentals are Your Superpower in the Age of AI Do you feel like your hard-earned engineering skills are losing their value in a world dominated by LLMs? Matt Pocock has a comforting, yet provocative message for you: software fundamentals matter now more than they ever have. While many believe we are entering a specs-to-code era where we can simply ignore the implementation, the reality is much messier. If you treat code as a disposable byproduct, you fall into the trap of vibe coding. You run the compiler, get garbage, run it again, and get even worse garbage. ...