Monday, September 28, 2026
Three of Tuesday's events are about what happens to an agent after the demo. Daytona's AI Builders night opens with a fifteen-minute talk called "Your Agent's Slowest Tool Is Its Mouse," AI Infrastructure Night covers what agent traffic does to your servers, and Fix My Agent runs a clinic for agents that broke in production.
If you work on robots or autonomy, Encord's Long Horizon summit on October 20 and 21 is built around getting robots out of the lab and into production, and the code RALLYSF25 takes 25% off tickets.
Tonight, Degrees of Freedom, our robotics builders night, opens at 6:00 at Mission Robotics. Bring whatever you want moving by the end of the night. See you there.
Lee
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Degrees of Freedom: Robotics Builders Night @ Mission Robotics
2026-09-28 · 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Bring the project you want moving by 9:00, whether that's a gripper, a teleop rig or a world model. Kickoff at 6:00, bench time from 6:30, and demos of what moved at 8:30.
Around SF this week
Tuesday, Sep 29, 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Agent traffic is about to hit your servers hard, argues Svix's Tom Hacohen, and his talk makes the case for event-driven architecture before it does. Four talks follow on customer-cloud deploys and GPU-fleet reliability.
Tuesday, Sep 29, 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Every click a GUI agent makes costs a screenshot and a model round trip, and Daytona's opening talk builds the cost model of computer use from there. WorkOS follows on getting coworkers to actually use your app.
Tuesday, Sep 29, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Bring one agent that worked in the demo and broke in production, and clinicians at focused stations will help you find the highest-leverage next fix. Screenshots, logs or a stubborn question are enough to start.
Wednesday, Sep 30, 1:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Flower's bet is that the frontier now moves through open agents and models working together, which it calls collaborative superintelligence. An afternoon of talks and firesides from YC, Arcee AI, NASA and AMD.
Wednesday, Sep 30, 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
This session holds recursive self-improvement to its narrow meaning, systems that improve the process by which they improve, and asks what evidence would settle it. Short talks, papers sent ahead, then critique over dinner.
Wednesday, Sep 30, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
This panel is about getting coding agents to implement, test and review in parallel without stepping on each other's work. Engineers from OpenAI, Cognition, Qodo and Temporal show their real configurations, what broke, and what they changed.
Wednesday, Sep 30, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Spiros Xanthos helped create OpenTelemetry and ran Splunk's observability business, and now builds agents at Resolve AI meant to take over on-call. He and Greylock's Corinne Riley ask why a coding agent can't diagnose the failure it caused.
Thursday, Oct 1, 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Breakfast tacos and drip coffee at a SOMA restaurant opening early for people building agents inside tech companies, with impromptu demos and no agenda. Bring a skill you've built so others can use it.
Saturday, Oct 3, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Dexterous hands and tactile gloves run live on stage, with the touch and pressure data visualized as they work. Robotics Center brings hardware you can handle, including the Wuji and Sharpa hands, plus its tactile and force data.
Saturday, Oct 3, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Teams of two to five share one Coshell drive and steer the same live agent sessions together, with every prompt carrying a name. The grand prize, Best Built Together, comes with a fast-tracked interview for VC investment.