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The Postman Drop: Introducing the AI Agent Builder
The AI world moves fast, and we’re now entering the era of AI agents. These sophisticated AI systems integrate reasoning and memory, enabling them to autonomously interact with tools, make decisions, execute tasks, and deliver real-time results. AI agents will play an increasingly central role in how organizations operate, which Abhinav Asthana, our co-founder and CEO, discussed in a recent blog post. But systems this powerful are extremely challenging to build—especially without a unified solut...

RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans
MCP server for AI agents to book humans for physical-world tasks. Flexible payments, instant booking.
Daniel Kokotajlo on Twitter / X
Dan Selsam is a current OpenAI capabilities researcher. (since 2022) He was my boss for a while. He doesn't have a twitter account but has made this public statement of his views on AI risk and sent it to me to share:Dan Selsam's Personal Statement on AI Risk:I have been…— Daniel Kokotajlo (@DKokotajlo) September 14, 2026

AI-native project management | Plane
Project management for teams and AI agents. Plan, track, and ship with Projects, Wiki, and AI. Available on cloud, self-hosted, and air-gapped.

aparker.io
Austin Parker. Director of AI Strategy at Honeycomb, member of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee, co-author of Learning OpenTelemetry and Distributed Tracing in Practice (O'Reilly).

Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, a public benefit corporation dedicated to building AI systems that are steerable, interpretable and safe.

Infer Vancouver: AI Engineering Meetup
Vancouver's meetup for tactics, techniques, and lessons learned in LLM and AI engineering.

How to Do AI-Assisted Engineering
15 experienced engineers and engineering leaders share their real-world experiences with AI-assisted engineering.

Nature is Laughing at the AI Build Out -
I was catching up on Acquired episodes this week and listened to the spectacular “Google: The AI Company” episode that Ben and David put together. What the two of them have created with their podcast fascinates me in the inevitability of its success. I think Acquired proves that if you are smart and work your […]
Alex Komoroske (Common Tools)
Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training
An interview with one of the Amazon employees at Amazon’s AI training facility VGT3.

Resetting on engineering expectations in the age of AI
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Former Tesla AI boss Andrej Karpathy is joining Anthropic.
Karpathy, who had also been on the founding team of OpenAI, says he will be working on R&D at Anthropic. Previously, he had been working on “new kind of school that is AI native,” and he says he’s still “deeply passionate about education” and plans to go back to it “in time.” [Image: A screenshot of an X post from Andrej Karpathy. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-19-at-8.38.56AM.png?quality=90&strip=all]
