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

Event-Driven Validation for Cloud-Native Resilience | Mohiadeen Ameer | Conf42 Cloud 2026

Presenters Mohiadeen Ameer Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 Unlocking Cloud-Native Resilience: Why Event-Driven Validation is the Future for Healthcare 🚀 Hello everyone! Mohiadeen Ameer from Dell Technologies here, and I’m thrilled to dive into a topic that’s critical for anyone building cloud-native systems today, especially in high-stakes environments like healthcare: event-driven validation for cloud-native resilience. The central idea is clear: traditional validation methods simply cannot keep pace with the dynamic, distributed, and interdependent nature of modern cloud-native systems. What once worked in slower, more static enterprise environments now falls short when we deal with thousands of microservices, extensive APIs, multiple containers, asynchronous data pipelines, and cross-platform dependencies that are constantly changing. ...

April 23, 2026 · 8 min

agentctl: A CLI for Managing AI Agents & MCP Servers Like Infra | Andrew Espira | Conf42 Cloud 2026

Presenters Andrew Espira Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 🚀 Mastering the Chaos: Bringing SRE Principles to AI Agent Orchestration The AI revolution is moving fast, and for many engineering teams, the infrastructure is quickly becoming a wild west. Andrew Espira, a founding engineer at Castro, recently shared how his team tackled the daunting complexity of managing hundreds of AI agents across dozens of environments. When you have agents spinning up sub-agents, executing thousands of parallel tasks, and calling various services, traditional monitoring simply falls short. Enter Agency—a command-line interface (CLI) tool designed to bring order, visibility, and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) rigor to your agentic workflows. ...

April 23, 2026 · 3 min

Stablecoins as Cloud-Native Payment Infrastructure | Murtuza J Merchant | Conf42 Cloud 2026

Presenters Murtuza J Merchant Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 Stablecoins: The Cloud-Native Payment Infrastructure Revolution 🚀 Are you tired of the slow, expensive, and clunky traditional payment systems? Imagine sending money from London to Jakarta not in two to five business days with fees between $20 and $40, but in under 5 seconds for less than a tenth of a cent. This isn’t a futuristic dream; it’s the reality stablecoins offer today, and they’re rapidly becoming the first cloud-native payment infrastructure. ...

April 23, 2026 · 7 min

The End of Apps — Kitze, Sizzy.co

Presenters Kitaborovskis Sizzy Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Hey, tech enthusiasts and productivity hackers! Ever feel like you’re wrestling with your to-do list more than actually doing things? You’re definitely not alone. Our speaker, K, recently celebrated his 34th birthday by sharing his incredible, decades-long journey through the chaotic, frustrating, and ultimately inspiring world of productivity and personal AI agents. Get ready for a wild ride! The Relentless Pursuit of Productivity: A Personal Odyssey 🚀 K’s quest began at the tender age of 10, when he created his very first to-do list in a notebook. Since then, he has been in a constant struggle to conquer productivity, always feeling dissatisfied with existing solutions. “Is anyone else forever unhappy with to-do apps?” he asked, and a resounding chorus of agreement confirmed his shared pain. From the early days of Todoist and similar apps, K felt a deep need for something more. ...

April 23, 2026 · 8 min