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A listening history

AI videos we found useful

Talks, interviews, and demos that changed how we use, direct, and build with AI. Newest first.

p10qSeptember 9, 2026~9 min read68 videos

This list collects practical workflows, useful mental models, and warnings worth remembering. Dates are the original YouTube publication dates; a few older videos remain because they explain ideas the newer agent discussions build on.

2026
· AI Jason

I don’t prompt agents anymore...

Explicit workflows, state, verification, and escalation rules make agent execution more dependable than manually initiating every task.

· Claude

Reflecting on a year of Claude Code

Encode corrections in durable instructions or skills, and let the agent inspect the real application as part of verification.

· AI Engineer

The maturity phases of running evals

Start with human explanations of success and failure, then turn recurring failure modes and production traces into scalable evals.

· Alex Finn

Hermes just got 10x better...

Persistent recall, background work, coding agents, and computer control make agents more useful, but execution mistakes still require review.

· AI Engineer

Harnesses in AI: A Deep Dive

The harness around a model controls context, tools, execution, and verification, and increasingly determines whether the model is useful.

· AI Engineer

How we solved Context Management in Agents

Retrievable memory, selective truncation, focused subagents, and long-session evals can preserve useful context without uncontrolled summarization.

· Claude

Running an AI-native engineering org

When code is cheap, verification and decisions become the constraint, so teams can plan closer to execution and settle debates with prototypes.

· Fireship

Claude just got another superpower...

Interactive visual prototypes create a faster feedback surface, though uneven results still leave taste and judgment with the human.

· AI Jason

Okay, this unleashed my agent

Agent memory improves when conversations are periodically distilled into maintained knowledge and reusable skills.

· viki virgon1

Mastering Claude Code in 30 Minutes

Explore before editing, plan substantial work, and provide feedback through tests, screenshots, simulators, durable instructions, and worktrees.

· AI Engineer

State of the Claw

Personal agents need explicit security boundaries, realistic threat models, and defenses against automated issue and pull-request spam.

· AI Engineer

Building pi in a World of Slop

Own and observe the context passed to agents, and resist generating features or abstractions merely because implementation is cheap.

· AI LABS

GSD Is the Missing Piece For Claude Code

Choose the workflow for the work: exploratory systems for experiments, specifications for stable requirements, and tests where errors are expensive.

· Cursor

A computer for every agent

Agents become more trustworthy when they can operate the finished application and return recorded evidence of what they tested.

· Lenny’s Podcast

The rise of the professional vibe coder

Planning, prototypes, explicit references, and maintained Markdown context matter more than prompting an agent to code immediately.

· Lex Fridman

State of AI in 2026

Tool use lets models verify answers, operate repositories, and recover from errors, while builders still need enough understanding to inspect the result.

2025
· AI Engineer

Making Codebases Agent Ready

Stable builds, strict linters, tests, documentation, and specifications create the mechanical feedback agents need.

· Flux Academy

You vs AI? Web Design in 2026

Durable design judgment and a habit of testing new tools matter more than competing with AI on execution speed.

· Machine Learning Street Talk

29.4% ARC-AGI-2 🤯 (TOP SCORE!) - Jeremy Berman

Evolutionary search over natural-language algorithm descriptions suggests language itself can be a useful representation for discovering reasoning strategies.

· Latent Space

Claude Code: Anthropic’s CLI Agent

Markdown memory, context summarization, permissions, and non-interactive execution show how small transparent primitives can support rich workflows.

· Latent Space

The AI Architect: Bret Taylor

Strong AI products keep customer understanding, product judgment, and engineering close together as verification becomes more valuable than code generation.

Earlier foundations
· Machine Learning Street Talk

Pattern Recognition vs True Intelligence

François Chollet distinguishes memorized skill from the ability to adapt efficiently to unfamiliar situations, a useful frame for judging benchmarks.