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The Golden Age of AI Engineering — Alexander Embiricos & Romain Huet & Peter Steinberger, OpenAI

Jul 9, 2026 · 25:13

OpenAI's Alexander Embiricos, Romain Huet, and Peter Steinberger reveal how AI engineering is entering its golden age, with model releases accelerating from every 15 months to roughly every 6 weeks and frontier-level intelligence now available at $1 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. They demonstrate Codex's evolution from a model that couldn't test its own code to one generating 750 tokens per second, enabling a 10-second pull request, and emphasize that the product is built on the same open-source stack—responses API, AGENTS.md format, and harness—that ships to developers. The trio argue that the future is not about automating engineers but empowering them via value maxing over token maxing, with agents moving from local/cloud distinctions to persistent, long-running managers that orchestrate work and only require human steering at key decision points, as illustrated by an automated open-source issue resolution workflow.

Amp Code: Next Generation AI Coding – Beyang Liu, Amp Code

Dec 22, 2025 · 18:31

Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Amp Code, presents Amp as an opinionated frontier coding agent that rejects MCP in favor of custom tools to avoid context confusion and optimize feedback loops. Amp's architecture relies on specialized subagents—the finder for code search, the oracle for deep reasoning, the librarian for external context, and the kraken for large-scale refactors—rather than a model selector. The agent offers two top-level modes: a slower 'smart' agent for complex tasks and a 'rush' agent for quick, in-loop edits, recently updated to leverage Gemini 3. To address inference costs, Amp ships subtle ads in the terminal to sponsor free usage for students and side projects. Liu also highlights a shared-threads feature for team learning and a community called the Weird Builder Cohort, emphasizing a culture of experimentation over hype.

How Windsurf writes 90% of your code with an Agentic IDE - Kevin Hou, Windsurf

Mar 11, 2025 · 20:50

Kevin Hou, head of product engineering at Codeium, introduces Windsurf as the first AI agent-powered editor, arguing that agents are the future of software development. The editor is built on three principles: trajectories, a unified timeline that lets the agent read the user's mind and execute commands like 'continue my work'; meta-learning, which auto-generates memories of user preferences and codebase context; and scaling with intelligence, removing legacy features like chat and @-mentions as models improve. Windsurf launched three months ago and has already generated 4.5 billion lines of code, with 90% of code now written via its Cascade agent. Hou emphasizes that the agent reduces human-in-the-loop effort by inferring context, running terminal commands in the user's environment, and dynamically retrieving documentation—allowing developers to contribute less input while getting more production-ready output.