We hosted an intimate event on Agentic Engineering in SF with speakers at the forefront of AI yesterday.

Three big lessons I took away: – @steipete: I now force contributors to OpenClaw to use a skill that pushes their prompt history of the code change to find signal in noise, to avoid often bad PRs that are 10,000 lines from a prompt “fix this” – @trq212: I used Claude to be a video editor to create a launch video with visuals, while having it interactively teach me about color grading as it did the edits. I didn't even know it could do that! Getting the most out of a model is finding your unknown unknowns. – @georgepickett: I spend a lot more human energy on crafting a plan upfront and getting all my clairfications answered upfront before leaving Codex to spin for days, armed with Ousterhout’s coding principles as a skill, on a well-crafted /goal

We had about ~30 odd people including some recognizable names like Theo (@theo), Gergely (@GergelyOrosz), Andy (@andykonwinski), Jerry (@MillionInt), Dave Morin (@davemorin), Patrick Hsu (@pdhsu), Eric (@ericho), Bucky (@buckymoore), Joff (@mejoff) with a surprise visit from cricketer Robin Uthappa (@robbieuthappa)

We were graciously hosted by @timshi_ai at his house and cohosted with @GregKamradt.

Videos will be up soon! If you're interesting in coming to these, give me a shout in comments or in DM.

(also incredible to see how huge the ClawFather is in the flesh)