Principle · MoneyCharlie Holtz recounts that the Conductor team initially started cloning their repo five times to run parallel workstreams before discovering Git WorkTrees. He recommends using Git WorkTrees instead of multiple clones for parallel agent work.
AI Engineer · Orchestras, Not Factories: How the Fastest Builders Work — Charlie Holtz, Conductor
Principle · SocialThe creator's heuristic that combining vibe, body language, and seating positioning together is what creates a strong, powerful vibe that gets her hooked in.
Coach Kyle · Watch Me Create Attraction on a Live Date (uncensored infield)
Principle · SocialThe creator's core principle for dating: create a fun, flirty, man-to-woman vibe that is engaging and enthusiastic, because that emotional spark is what hooks a woman in.
Coach Kyle · Watch Me Create Attraction on a Live Date (uncensored infield)
Principle · SocialThe creator's summary heuristic: doing these things on a date — getting closer, opening with intent, touching, laughing, making it about her, moving around — creates a powerful vibe, versus doing none of them.
Coach Kyle · Watch Me Create Attraction on a Live Date (uncensored infield)
Report · MoneyThe intelligence plane is the part of an agentic system or AI infrastructure that allows agents to get better over time. It encapsulates four things: what the agent should know (knowledge), what it should remember (memory), what it's allowed to see (governance/data access), and how it gets better (continual learning).
AI Engineer · Everyone Has the Same AI Models. Here's What Sets Agents Apart - Richmond Alake, Oracle
Principle · MoneyZach Lloyd recommends setting up something that can be measured and improved, noting that once you can truly measure in a closed-loop system, you can do things never possible before. He adds that defining rules for how humans and agents interact is what makes the system measurable and improvable over time, and that every failure caught by a scorer is an opportunity to improve how the system works.
AI Engineer · How to Build a Software Factory That Improves Itself - Zach Lloyd, Warp
Creator perspective · MoneyBefore trusting a system to improve an agent automatically, the team had to understand whether the feedback driving those improvements was itself trustworthy; being able to trust the changes being made is the most important part of improvement processes.
AI Engineer · An Agent That Fixes Its Own Mistakes - Saloni Gandhi & Ziwei Guo, LinkedIn
Principle · MoneyThe ultimate goal is not to maximize the number of automated prompt edits but to produce measurable improvements in agent quality while maintaining confidence that changes are genuinely beneficial.
AI Engineer · An Agent That Fixes Its Own Mistakes - Saloni Gandhi & Ziwei Guo, LinkedIn
Creator perspective · MoneyTo improve an evaluator's alignment with humans, improve the specification of what a correct evaluation should look like — rubric design and evidence handling — not just the model behind the judge.
AI Engineer · An Agent That Fixes Its Own Mistakes - Saloni Gandhi & Ziwei Guo, LinkedIn
Principle · MoneyDuring the recursive self-improvement process, evaluation is critical and must be objective and well aligned with user feedback. The team argues this is key to identifying where the bottleneck is and guiding the next step of AI system improvement.
AI Engineer · An Agent That Fixes Its Own Mistakes - Saloni Gandhi & Ziwei Guo, LinkedIn
Principle · MoneyThe layers of the capability stack depend on one another and you can't build a trustworthy loop without reliable diagnosis; leveling up evaluation infrastructure is seen as a prerequisite to scaling RSI. Rather than every team building all components independently, there is an opportunity to provide shared infrastructure.
AI Engineer · An Agent That Fixes Its Own Mistakes - Saloni Gandhi & Ziwei Guo, LinkedIn
Creator perspective · MoneyThe improvements were achieved not only by handling the model but by improving specifications of what a correct evaluation should look like, including rubric design and the evidence the evaluator produces.
AI Engineer · An Agent That Fixes Its Own Mistakes - Saloni Gandhi & Ziwei Guo, LinkedIn
Creator perspective · MoneyA reflection system can produce convincing explanations while still misidentifying the underlying problem; if those explanations generate prompt changes, the wrong component of the system may be modified. Improving the L2 reflection judge became the next priority.
AI Engineer · An Agent That Fixes Its Own Mistakes - Saloni Gandhi & Ziwei Guo, LinkedIn
Report · MoneyMultigress is a ground-up rewrite of the entire structure of a Postgres operator, initially aimed at giving sharding to the Postgres community, and has turned out to be an entire operating system. It was designed so that releasing sharding requires zero changes to the user's database, unlike Vitesse-based sharding which required query changes. It has been tested with 1,000 sequential failovers without data loss and by clobbering it in every way to check for data loss. It will be fully open source, available on the Supabase platform (initially invite-only for serious workloads), usable by anyone running Postgres at scale, with sharding expected to land probably early next year. Supabase has a design partner program with companies like Booz Allen, Postman, and Perplexity, and every company '
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Report · MoneyKevin Hou identifies sub-agents, sidecar triggers, and generative UI as the latest primitives powering Antigravity, and describes the Antigravity team's design philosophy of staying out of the way and letting the model cook.
AI Engineer · Get Out of the Model's Way — Kevin Hou, Google Antigravity
Principle · MoneyDustin Perrier frames the sales demo as a filtering exercise: the goal is to disqualify bad-fit prospects rather than to close everyone. A bad customer is the most resource-intensive customer for a B2B SaaS — you onboard them, train them, pay hosting fees for their data, and then discover they wasted your time. Because demos are expensive, spending one on a bad prospect costs time you could spend on better things, so filter out bad-fit prospects early and often.
MicroConf · SaaS Sales Demos: Why Getting a No Is Better Than a Yes
Creator perspective · MoneyMaintain a modular platform and continue iterating on it as the overarching philosophy for shipping AI tooling; modularity is part of moving fast because every day brings a new model, product, or paradigm.
AI Engineer · How a Trading Firm Ships New AI Models the Same Day - Noyan Tokgozoglu, Optiver
Creator perspective · MoneyBuilding a great AI platform is insufficient if nobody wants to, likes to, or knows how to use it; the right surfaces for user engagement are essential.
AI Engineer · How a Trading Firm Ships New AI Models the Same Day - Noyan Tokgozoglu, Optiver
Creator perspective · MoneyInstead of only updating weights with small deltas, updating a prompt allows a single natural language update to give a very large behavior change; achieving the same via gradient descent would require thousands of tiny sequential updates.
AI Engineer · Beating RL With Reflection: GEPA and Optimize Anything — Lakshya A. Agrawal, GEPA
Principle · MoneyBecause prompts are just text artifacts that determine AI system behavior, the same reflective optimization algorithm can improve anything expressible as a piece of text that can be scored. An entire agent harness is eventually just a Python or JavaScript file, and the same reflective optimization process can be applied to that entire file.
AI Engineer · Beating RL With Reflection: GEPA and Optimize Anything — Lakshya A. Agrawal, GEPA