OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon

• AI Codecon: Coding for the Agentic World

  • OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/People

  • Later edition

    • 2026-03-26 Thu, 11:00–15:00 EDT (11am–3pm Eastern) — OReilly/Event/26/03/AI Codecon (Software Craftsmanship in the Age of AI)

  • Resources

    • Event Schedule: Link
    • Code of Conduct: Link
    • Expert Playlist: Link
    • Register for September 16 O’Reilly Demo Day: Link
    • Alex Komoroske - Why Centralized AI Is Not Our Inevitable Future: PDF
    • Addy Osmani - Context Engineering: PDF
    • Rachel-Lee Nabors - Death of the Browser: PDF
    • Ken Kousen - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI Coding Agents (Don’t Panic!): PDF
    • Angie Jones - Beyond Code Generation: Getting Real Work Done with AI Agents: PDF
    • Ramesh Raskar - Agentic Web MCP, A2A, MIT Project NANDA, and Beyond: PDF
    • Chris Butler - The Team Tomorrow: Agents, Alignment, and Team Ritual: PDF
    • Brennon Bortz - From Proof to Platform: Scaling Agentic AI in a Fortune 300 Software Enterprise: PDF
    • Jessica Kerr - Designing for AI Agents MCP: PDF
    • Siddharth Ahuja - Blender MCP: PDF
    • Siddharth Ahuja - GitHub Repo: Link

  • Schedule - Links

    • OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/Pt 1 Agentic Interfaces

      • Part 1: Agentic Interfaces

        • Introduction

          • Session: OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/1100 Introduction Tim OReilly
          • Speaker: Person/Tim O'Reilly
          • Length: 10 min
          • Description: Tim welcomes you to Coding for the Agentic World.

        • Why Centralized AI Is Not Our Inevitable Future

          • Session: OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/1110 Alex Komoroske Why Centralized AI Is Not Our Inevitable Future
          • Speaker: Person/Alex Komoroske
          • Length: 15 min
          • Description: Explores data sovereignty, open ecosystems, personalized AI, and the risks of a centralized AI future.

        • Fireside Chat

          • Session: OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/1125 Josh Woodward and Tim OReilly Fireside Chat
          • Speakers: Person/Josh Woodward and Person/Tim O'Reilly
          • Length: 20 min
          • Description: NotebookLM's origin story, AI-native interfaces, and what's next.

        • Context Engineering

          • Session: OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/1145 Context Engineering Addy Osmani
          • Speaker: Person/Addy Osmani
          • Length: 15 min
          • Description: From prompt engineering to system-level context design for LLMs.

        • Death of the Browser

          • Session: OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/1200 Death of the Browser Rachel-Lee Nabors
          • Speaker: Person/Rachel-Lee Nabors
          • Length: 15 min
          • Description: How AI agents can replace browsers, with more adaptive, private, and accessible user experiences.

        • Break — 5 min

    • OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/Pt 2 Tool-to-Tool Workflows

      • Part 2: Tool-to-Tool Workflows

        • Fireside Chat

          • Session: OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/1220 Clay Bavor and Tim OReilly Fireside Chat
          • Speakers: Person/Clay Bavor and Person/Tim O'Reilly
          • Length: 20 min
          • Description: Sierra's vision of enterprise AI agents as core digital interfaces.

        • The Hitchhiker's Guide to AI Coding Agents (Don't Panic!)

          • Session: OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/1240 The Hitchhikers Guide to AI Coding Agents Ken Kousen
          • Speaker: Person/Ken Kousen
          • Length: 15 min
          • Description: Survey of AI-powered coding assistants, their capabilities and limits.

        • Beyond Code Generation: Getting Real Work Done with AI Agents

          • Session: OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/1255 Beyond Code Generation Getting Real Work Done with AI Agents Angie Jones
          • Speaker: Person/Angie Jones
          • Length: 15 min
          • Description: Delegating non-coding dev tasks (triage, tests, PRs, docs) to AI agents.

        • Your AI Agents Don't Need You Anymore

          • Speaker: Person/Amit Rustagi
          • Length: 5 min
          • Description: Framework for decentralized, self-organizing AI systems using Wasm + IPFS.
    • OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/Pt 3 Background Coding

      • Part 3: Background Coding Agents

        • Fireside Chat

          • Session: OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/1300 Kathy Korevec and Addy Osmani Fireside Chat
          • Speakers: Person/Kathy Korevec and Person/Addy Osmani
          • Length: 20 min
          • Description: Inside Google Labs' AIDA team and the making of Jules, an AI-powered dev tool.

        • Break — 5 min

        • Agentic Web: MCP, A2A, MIT Project NANDA, and Beyond

          • Session: OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/1310 Agentic Web MCP A2A MIT Project NANDA and Beyond Ramesh Raskar
          • Speaker: Person/Ramesh Raskar
          • Length: 10 min
          • Description: Open protocols and the future of agentic societies and commerce.

        • The Team of Tomorrow: Agents, Alignment, and Team Ritual

          • Session: OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/1325 The Team Tomorrow Agents Alignment and Team Ritual Chris Butler
          • Speaker: Person/Chris Butler
          • Length: 5 min
          • Description: Design fiction on future team rituals with AI agents as collaborators.

        • From Proof to Platform

          • Session: OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/1340 From Proof to Platform Scaling Agentic AI in a Fortune 300 Software Enterprise Brennon Bortz
          • Speaker: Person/Brennon Bortz
          • Length: 5 min
          • Description: Scaling agentic AI inside Leidos: pilots, adoption, and enterprise integration.
    • OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/Pt 4 MCP and Agent Protos

      • Part 4: MCP and Agent Protocols

        • Designing for AI Agents: MCP

          • Session: OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/1355 Designing for AI Agents MCP Jessica Kerr
          • Speaker: Person/Jessica Kerr
          • Length: 15 min
          • Description: MCP design considerations, comparisons with APIs and UX.

        • Blender MCP

          • Session: OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/1410 Blender MCP Siddharth Ahuja
          • Speaker: Siddharth Ahuja
          • Length: 15 min
          • Description: How Blender MCP lets LLMs drive 3D modeling, and the creative potential of MCPs.

        • Fireside Chat

          • Speakers: Thomas Dohmke and Person/Tim O'Reilly
          • Length: 20 min
          • Description: GitHub's evolving role in AI-powered software development.

        • Closing Remarks

          • Speakers: Person/Tim O'Reilly and Person/Addy Osmani
          • Length: 5 min
          • Description: Wrap-up and takeaways.

    • Additional Notes

      • 11:31 In the chat - a recommendation from "David M"

        • I have been testing out Abacus AI, which is $10 per month. It has access to all the LLMs and also has MCP server, you can build chat bots, and it has backend database for authentication and storage. https://chatllm.abacus.ai/HkLTNcDQBP
          

      • 1:55 PM about local LLMs
        • I find I don't need a ton of memory when I find nice quantized models
        • Check out Hugging FAce's page (they are where I find such models): https://huggingface.co/docs/optimum/en/concept_guides/quantization
        • quantization is when the model is kind of compressed, so you need less memory etc. but you are losing so the more compressed you get the results are worse