{ "video": { "id": "snTZtttfL70", "title": "Building AIE: Open Q&A and Feedback Session with swyx", "duration": 3522, "upload_date": null, "channel": "AI Engineer", "source": "AI Engineer", "event_format": "" }, "analysis": { "video_id": "snTZtttfL70", "title": "Building AIE: Open Q&A and Feedback Session with swyx", "one_liner": "swyx says AIE's San Francisco World's Fair won't grow next year (same size, same Moscone venue, same week in 2027). The plan is to optimise operations, replace the vendor mobile app with their own web app, add workshop pre-registration, and expand internationally through a TED/TEDx-style partner model.", "summary": "This is an open Q&A and feedback session where swyx, an AIE organizer, answers attendee questions about how the conference is run. He explains the philosophy behind it: content is king and everything is recorded for YouTube; the World's Fair is the big expo-heavy show while the summits are single-track and curated; and the content focuses on what engineers use at work, not X-risk theory. He also owns up to failures: workshop rooms filling with no pre-registration, poor Wi-Fi, a weak new-attendee orientation and a buggy vendor app. Attendees' detailed complaints are recorded as the requirements document for next year.", "key_points": [ "AIE won't grow next year. The 2027 World's Fair keeps the same size, venue (Moscone) and week so the team can 'get good'. Growth will come by geography only, and they 'will never leave San Francisco'.", "CFP numbers: about 2,200 applications for roughly 300 spots, including invited speakers. The vision track had only 10 talks. Applications aren't blind, and submitting recorded prior talks helps reviewers vet speakers. Reviewers are mostly trusted past speakers.", "International expansion follows a TED/TEDx partnership model. About 40 countries are lined up. Partner events are planned in Miami, Melbourne, Sydney, Paris and Singapore, Shanghai is TBD (targeted for November after slipping twice), and Bangalore is likely the first Indian city.", "There will be no dedicated AI safety/X-risk track because it is 'not so much engineering'. swyx argues frontier evals like vending bench uncover more alignment issues than vague X-risk talk, and points to the existing security, sandboxing and evals tracks.", "Workshop pre-registration failed because the paid mobile-app vendor couldn't support it. swyx wants to drop that vendor next year and build their own web app. The conference data was already open via JSON, MCPs and a CLI, so attendees could vibe code their own app.", "An attendee gave detailed app feedback: Android crashes, loading screens and lost scroll position, the My Schedule view not jumping to today, no way to save sessions already in progress, no web/app sync, booths not showing names or locations, and unused chat/Q&A features. The leadership track prototyped a matching system that deep-researched each leadership attendee.", "Wi-Fi: they paid for the venue's maximum package and ran separate speaker and sponsor networks. Attendee congestion is unavoidable, but it's better than last year's Marriott basement because attendees can at least tether.", "This was the first year of poster sessions, run with the ACM agents/agentic systems conference (CAIS), which did the selection. AIE started 'in opposition to NeurIPS/ICLR', for example by not cutting off submissions six months early. Not being accredited means academics can present the same work at both." ], "takeaways": [ "When organizing a meetup, get a consistent home (same venue, same time each month) and a group of volunteers. Event organization plus publishing is the 80/20; a typical format is social time, two talks, then more social time.", "To get accepted as a speaker at a selective conference, submit recorded prior talks (view counts don't matter) and show your work is unique, frontier, and tied to a broader trend. 'Remove all doubt' that you meet the bar.", "Treat conference attendance as a team investment. One nonprofit preps together a month ahead, then rents a suite and hacks every night on what they learned that day.", "If a workshop room is full, go to your second or third choice; everything is recorded and on YouTube. Optimize talks to stand alone on YouTube, since online attention spans are getting shorter.", "Event organizers should publish their schedule data openly (JSON, MCP, CLI) so attendees can build their own tools, since 'the only app you like is the one that you made.'" ], "topics": [ "conference organizing", "community building", "meetups", "event apps", "speaker selection", "ai engineering", "academia-industry" ], "tools": [ "AI Engineer (AIE)", "Moscone", "Shift (Croatia)", "GDC", "TED/TEDx", "Vending Bench", "MCP", "Opus", "Twitter", "LinkedIn", "Slack", "YouTube", "JS.LA", "WeAreDevelopers", "NeurIPS", "ICLR", "ACM", "CAIS", "Perceptron", "Y Combinator", "AWS re:Invent", "South by Southwest", "Comic-Con", "Lighthaven" ], "quotes": [ { "text": "We're just going to do this every year until we get good and then we can grow.", "at": "18:06", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTZtttfL70&t=1086s" }, { "text": "So actually the only app you like is the one that you made. So why don't I just publish all my all my JSON files, right?", "at": "27:41", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTZtttfL70&t=1661s" }, { "text": "we're covering the fastest moving fields ever. And so, you should be a little bit uh uncomfortable, right?", "at": "38:42", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTZtttfL70&t=2322s" }, { "text": "I always want to be have a place for weird stuff", "at": "51:24", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTZtttfL70&t=3084s" } ], "words": 12853 }, "summary_url": "/#snTZtttfL70", "transcript": { "html": "/transcripts/snTZtttfL70.html", "txt": "/transcripts/snTZtttfL70.txt", "vtt": "/transcripts/snTZtttfL70.vtt" } }