I've published detailed notes and an annotated transcript to accompany the video of the keynote I gave at @WeAreDevs World Congress North America in San Jose on Friday - here's my rundown of everything that's happened with LLMs and agents in 2026 so far …↗

Announcing: the @a16z Ops Engineering Fellowship ⚙️ Because: operations (along with everything else??) is becoming something best approached with an engineering mindset. We've been tracking this space closely, and are seeing a new kind of builder emerging inside companies... Th…↗

Jev scoring 3000 kid snacks with multiple criteria on nosugarforkids.com in 28 seconds for $0.11 🤯↗

Slack Code — Agentic coding is now a team sport. With Slack Code, your team and agents can plan, write, and review builds together. New agents in Slack: - Cedar - @coderabbitai - @datadoghq - @FactoryAI - @Lovable - @MistralAI - @NanoClaw_AI - @Replit - Rhythms - …↗

Some news: 5 months ago I joined @coreauto, a small research lab focused on new ways for models to learn. I’m also hiring four interns to do something my younger self would've loved. It started with a pretty unusual project. We set up a handful of small online businesses, and pu…↗

Agents can now automate most repetitive tasks. But running them 24/7 burns countless tokens. Introducing Routines: automated recurring work with AI. Choose an hourly, daily, or weekly schedule. Each run starts with deterministic code and invokes Agent only when reasoning is nee…↗

Pro tip to structure your folders for agents: Stop re-explaining your project every time you open a chat. Give your agent a folder that teaches it how you work. Folder setup: Instructions + project knowledge + incident history + specialized skills • Put your conventions in CLA…↗

Here's a creative coding tool we made in tldraw offline. With this sketching tool, you can generate new nodes and modules with agents. You could also have agents generate sketches for you - and then work with your friends at the same time.↗

Introducing opencomputer.dev Deploy your agent as a function. Get a computer for it. - a real Linux machine per session - ffmpeg, chromium, git, install anything - durable: hibernate + resume - your keys never enter the runtime The cloud of the last decade was built for ap…↗

Designing Grok Bot with Grok Bot At SpaceXAI, we’re building agents that can take an idea and begin making it real. For designers, that changes what’s worth exploring. Design has always been a process of giving form to an idea: making something, reacting to it, and changing it…↗

Agents made software cheaper but made coding expensive. Today, together with @OpenAI, we’re changing this:↗

weird that there's a "make a lot of money" button and nobody's pressing it (take your SaaS, make it headless, let agents use it, charge per interaction esp for enterprises)↗

Today we're publishing our first research blog, Understanding a Law Firm through Study. We're sharing a glimpse of a future where agents are trained with native memory:↗

6 months ago: laptop open all day, typing into Claude Code, waiting. Today: I write a spec, go to the gym, and my phone only pings when an agent needs a decision. 95% of my work runs itself. Full breakdown so you can build your own 👇↗

We have an internal Slack channel for agents to crash out through a /complain skill↗

We built a software factory for AI SDK. Each step is an agent, and humans merge changes. Four weeks in: ▪️ The factory authors up to 35% of merged PRs ▪️ It closed 70% of issues in July ▪️ Open bugs are down 25% vercel.com/blog/building-…↗

Two months in after relaunch, really proud of the @digg crew: @addison and @JustinMezzell @maubrowncow -- 100+ running tasks/agents/judges, automated clustering, sentiment analysis, image creation, newsletters, everything... traffic is up 20%+ MoM, @grok models have been great at…↗

We're not using enough inference We're going to look back on the amount of inference we used in 2026 as laughably small In order to properly read this article, you have to assume two things are true: 1. The cost of inference is going to 0 2. Agents will be good enough to auto…↗

The customization is probably my favorite aspect. Such a cool canvas. When I was putting a few plugins together one thing I kept running into was that jamming with my agents on the specifics of the UI/UX took a lot of trial and error. Ended up putting together a little tool to…↗

Josh's insight here is unique because he's had the best seat in the house for years. The browser is both a utility and a leisure tool, and the team at @browsercompany has seen exactly how people use it. Consumers want their leisure amplified. They don't want productivity! Produc…↗

random tip… put “You are AGI-pilled.” in your system prompt for all agents now. it’s a WAY better experience. rn agents behave too much like the world is going to stay static. this unhobbles them quite a bit and gets them to talk/act more like AGIs.↗

Cloudflare OS shipped today. A home of work for your team. Ask, Make, Build, Run -> Share blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/ insane work by @KentonVarda @dcarter_js @akaphill and the team↗

Machines create code now. That means machines can personalize your software, if it is open source. Closed source tools (like Claude Code) are now less desirable. blog.exe.dev/devtools-must-…↗

People keep on telling me that my message about AI is undercutting my own books. Those people do not understand how agents work and who actually controls them. You can't tell an agent to be clean. You have to measure the cleanliness that they produce and have them correct fail…↗

whoever successfully rebranded ‘bots’ as ‘agents’ is a god-tier marketer↗

The Self-Driving Company We are beginning to see what happens when a company learns to operate itself. In the past six months, engineers at Replit have nearly tripled code output. Review times held steady. Reversions and product incidents have stayed flat. Quality metrics impro…↗

You just hired a million bad employees. AI was supposed to replace human labor. It did the opposite. For the first time in history, humans are cheaper than software. And AI is creating more jobs than it eliminates. --- Technology has always solved one problem by creating a…↗

Some guesses about the future of programming languages, given agents write and humans read: - untyped - out of band formal verification - test harness runs code in a simulator vm to instrument the os - less expressive, more copying↗

Four of AI's most confusing terms explained: An agent is just a model, harnessed, in an environment.↗

i use this every single session i work with agents↗