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6 Things to Know about AIE World's Fair 2026

Jun 21, 2026 · 17:50

Swix, co-founder of AI Engineer, outlines six key features of the 2026 World's Fair in San Francisco. The event is over 4x larger than 2025, with 50% new topics, an expanded expo floor (4 stages, 4x bigger), and a new research-industry poster session that includes printed tweets. A leadership track on Level 3 features the Token Billionaire lounge for heavy LLM users and off-the-record McKinsey sessions. AI verticals debut in agentic commerce, healthcare, finance, and GTM, with a new AI Engineer New York focused on finance. Side events include a World Cup viewing, New Engineer Orientation (NEO) with 300+ signups, and a kids event; attendees can claim $38,000 in sponsor offers.

Agents for Everything Else — swyx

May 1, 2026 · 14:10

swyx, co-founder of AI Engineer Conferences, details how his team of nine full‑time people uses coding agents like Devin and Town to run the conference, moving from a non‑AI stack to agents that handle everything from Figma‑to‑website conversion and schedule management to buying a lobster for the event. He claims these agents save “yak shaving” and increase human productivity because employees enjoy faster feedback cycles, leading to more work like animations and polish. The team now manages a 1,000‑person conference with plans to handle 6,000 in San Francisco without growing headcount. Swyx also advocates for “agents for everything else,” predicting that the primary user of software will shift from humans to bots, making APIs and MCPs more important than dashboards. He urges attendees to adopt agents and “prescribe” them to skeptical coworkers.

Top Ten Challenges to Reach AGI — Stephen Chin, Andreas Kollegger

Jul 22, 2025 · 4:23

Stephen Chin and Andreas Kollegger, curators of the GraphRAG track at AI Engineer World's Fair, use ten sci-fi memes to expose top challenges to AGI—from Memento's short-term memory as prompt engineering to Skynet's unintended consequences, the Matrix's agent simulation, Hal's trust issues, emotions as bug/feature, Frankenstein's creator obligations, Terminator's time travel, Star Wars' language nuance, the Borg's assimilation, and Deep Thought's right questions. They argue graphs and graph technology can solve some of these challenges, inviting the audience to the GraphRAG track to learn which ones. The episode delivers a playful yet pointed framework connecting pop culture to core AGI obstacles.