The Hallway Track

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Every signal tracked from the world's AI conferences — 4,665 talks, quotes & announcements, newest first.

shot-scraper 1.12

Simon Willison · Sep 13, 2026

shot-scraper 1.12 introduces WebP support for screenshots.

“In my experience WebP screenshots are almost always significantly smaller in file size than their JPEG or PNG equivalents.”
Why Most AI Chip Startups Will Fail

No Priors · Sep 13, 2026

AI chip startups will struggle due to high capital needs and supply chain complexities.

“I think we're going to be in this constrained environment for 3 to 5 years at least.”
Quoting Paul Ford

Simon Willison · Sep 12, 2026

Human collaboration remains essential in software development despite AI advancements.

“A.I. can write very good software, but it also makes it easy to do someone else’s job badly.”
Will We Still Need Money in the Future?

No Priors · Sep 12, 2026

Future economies may rely on energy and mass rather than money.

“it's really cool to see that like as AI emerges crypto rails are just kind of a nice compliment for all that stuff to finally work.”
How To Get Better At Outbound Sales

Y Combinator · Sep 12, 2026

Personalized outreach is essential for successful outbound sales.

“Spend time thinking about one individual person. What is her problem specifically?”
So you want to use OpenRouter?

Simon Willison · Sep 11, 2026

OpenRouter can route requests to various backend providers, but it comes with challenges.

“Different providers run different serving software with different optimizations and settings.”
Quoting Boris Cherny

Simon Willison · Sep 11, 2026

Production code by Claude requires higher standards than human-written code.

“At Anthropic, we have many guardrails in place to make sure this is happening.”
What is an agent harness? Explained fast

LangChain · Sep 11, 2026

LangChain introduces Deep Agents, an advanced agent harness for AI.

“Deep agents is our opinionated open source harness with the file system, sub agents, and memory already wired in.”
Feeling sad about AI

Simon Willison · Sep 11, 2026

AI is changing software engineering, demanding adaptation from professionals.

“you can start looking at the larger set of problems that you face as a software engineer and realize that there is so much left”