Also cool: Context Engineering, the fastest hype cycle rise from Andrej Karpathy tweet to Gartner CIO strategy advisory in less than 5 months. (With due credit for Tobi Lutke)

Good advice. Don’t select AI vendors based on capital raised, news headlines or Gigawatts of compute, but on ability to partner and to deliver.

The most interesting takeaway from the keynote? 84% of IT leaders don’t track accuracy. How can you govern and improve something that you don’t measure.

Minister van Digitale Zaken!

Nu nog wat gas geven...

Harsh to realize that @bsky.app is not that popular in the Bay Area. Everyone still on Twitter. What's up folks?

Tonight, I am heading out to @Demetrios Brinkmann’s @mlopscommunity.bsky.social AI Agent Builder Summit. Looking to catch up with you if you are around, and talk about where AI products, R&D and engineering is heading, especially in the enterprise.

On 17 September, we talk at The AI Conference about Deep Research and Optimization of Advanced AI Agents. You can also meet us at expo booth 19 where we will be demoing and handing out stroopwafels. This means we have a discount code, so ping us for that.

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We will be hosting Trends in AI by Zeta Alpha on Friday 12th, with a focus on Enterprise RAG. Live from SF *and* Amsterdam.

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What's next? Fernando Rejon Barrera will be speaking together with Eric Pugh next week, about LLM-as-a-Judge and Human-in-the-Loop RAG evals, at the OpenSearch Project Conference in San Jose.

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And then by chance, I ended up in what is probably SF’s best cocktail bar with fellow ScaleNL alum Jonathan Zwaan (Zander Labs) to share notes on the coolest conferences and meetups for the next two weeks. What a start!

With so many AI events and meetups to pick from, my FOMO is off the charts!

Who cares about jet lag, when the evening is already packed? Fantastic start of the trip thanks to SF Demo Night with high energy pitches from 12 up and coming AI startups, hosted the AI Collective at AWS Startup Loft.

👉 Who else is going to be there? Would love to connect. Registration for both events is still possible:

- August 27th: OpenSearch Meetup Amsterdam - www.meetup.com/opensearch-p...

- August 29th: AI Dev Event Amsterdam
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If you’re working on AI search, customized complex AI agents, or just curious about where autonomous AI system research is heading, come join the discussion. Let’s push the boundaries of how we discover and organize knowledge together!

We’ll explore how AI agents can collaborate, plan, and optimize themselves to tackle complex research questions at scale - moving beyond Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) into Deep Research agents that are capable of orchestrating enterprise work involving knowledge discovery.