Rally SF · Newsletter
Every Sunday,
what's happening in
builder SF.
Editor's letter, the Rally event calendar, a community spotlight, and a handful of events worth your week.
- Issue #9Jun 7, 2026
Our third Agentic Coding Building the State of the Art (BSOTA) event was a night of lightning demos:
2 Rally events9 community picks - Issue #8May 31, 2026
The line from our last AI Research Circle I keep coming back to: we are two to three years out from robots operating reliably in uncontrolled environments, and the first wave will be non-humanoid robots in controlled environments like ware…
3 Rally events7 community picks - Issue #7May 24, 2026
I stopped noticing Waymos sooner than expected.
3 Rally events7 community picks - Issue #6May 17, 2026
Two days after our first Building the State of the Art (BSOTA) meetup, the community repo had 439 new lines of techniques, hooks, and architecture notes that attendees had worked out that night.
3 Rally events6 community picks - Issue #5May 10, 2026
On Monday, Rally hosted Erika Anderson and Yaoli Mao for a walkthrough of HumaneBench, their open benchmark scoring 800 scenarios against eight care ethics principles.
2 Rally events7 community picks - Issue #4May 3, 2026
Saturday's Build Your Own LLM workshop was a success.
3 Rally events5 community picks - Issue #3Apr 26, 2026
The Build Your Own LLM Workshop Saturday May 2 taught by Justin Angel quickly hit capacity.
4 Rally events5 community picks - Issue #2Apr 19, 2026
On Mondays at Builders Night, I go around the room and ask the same question: how can this group support you?
2 Rally events7 community picks - Issue #1Apr 12, 2026
Last Saturday, 30 builders spent three hours at Rally's first hackathon trying to solve for IRL connection.
2 Rally events7 community picks