Stefan Krawczyk

Super excited that this talked dropped so quickly for everyone else to see it. If you're struggling with #MLOps or #LLMOps I'm happy to chat and see if we can help.

@HamelHusain @josh_wills They sell tokens.

One thing that makes me feel that code factory has not arrived yet is the following experiment: 1.Ask a LLM to do an in-depth rigorous review of your code 2. In a new thread, as same/different LLM to consider those review comments independently and address issues it agrees with 3. Keep repeating until no new concerns I find that this loop always goes on for a ridiculously long time, which means that there is a problem with the notion of claude-take-the-wheel. This seems to happen no matter the harness or the specificity of the specs. It works fine for simple applications, but in the limit if the LLMs have this much cognitive dissonance you cannot trust it. Either this, or LLM are RLHFd to always find some kind of issue.

That's why I'm building things at @salesforce for enterprises to not build their own engine. Use ours, it's got you covered.

I think there will be a loss of "software layer" vendors if they don't move fast enough. There will be some equilibrium feature point where an internal solution will win if it's good enough, and the only way for a vendor will be either price or moving so fast as to make their product so much better. AI + experienced engineers shifts a lot more to build it...

I just published this blog post about software companies buying more software and all its corollaries: SF being back, tech layoffs, revenue going up but margins going down, and much more: erikbern.com/2026/02/25/sof…

@ikhare Awesome!

Imagine it, build it. It's shocking how simple it is to build complex workflows with this. Things this has already done for me: - Daily sentiment analysis on my products - Regular podcasts on the most important AI news - Prototyping new ideas All with very short prompts!

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@bernhardsson #dadjokes

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This is the best summary of the personal impact of the California Wealth Tax I've seen. Founders, if you have super voting shares, your tax liability may be substantially higher than your net worth. Private company shareholders, especially those in heavy industries, face a similar risk. Note this tax can apply to founders and shareholders with far less than $1B in net worth as well. As a lifetime Californian, this pains me to say, but founders of any unicorn company or any startup that could become a unicorn this year, really need to start planning a potential move or many will face 30-50%+ wealth taxes and potential bankruptcy. I'm still hopeful that voters will see the serious negative impact on California's tax revenue, services and jobs and will vote this proposition down... but it's so egregiously bad that you need a backup plan. taxfoundation.org/research/all/s…

California started with the Gold Rush and might end with the Golden Exit. it has been underreported how much wealth has left CA because of the asset seizure tax being proposed. a private poll was conducted amongst affected individuals a few days ago and 80-90% surveyed said they have already left CA in 2025 or will leave in 2026 if the ballot measure looks likely to pass. $2-2.5T of assets gone, representing about $20B of annual revenue for the state government. and likely hundreds of thousands of jobs now at risk. less reported is the bigger exodus underway from folks who are NOT directly affected but worry (as they should) that this law will quickly transition from billionaires to everyone else... the initiative actually gives CA legislators the right to take anyone's post-tax assets anytime in the future based on a majority vote. this isn't about billionaires. it's a new "tax system" that simply destroys private property rights in America. all private property is now public property. even after paying your taxes, it's not legally your property anymore. it's the government's, you're just borrowing it. legislators will decide what you get to keep and temporarily use each year. countless founders, CEOs, and other business leaders are actively looking to move their companies out of state. not just tech, not just AI, not just billionaires, but the core engine of California's prosperity since 1847 is unraveling. and here is how this initiative risks unraveling America: - ~10 states have explicit or implicit prohibitions against an asset seizure tax... - individuals affected in CA (and other states trying to do the same) will move to these states that endow private property rights. - CA already has a $20-30B annual budget deficit, an unfunded ~$1T pension liability for public employees/unions, and $500B of debt outstanding. the state can not afford to borrow much more and will launch more asset seizures to meet its obligations. - asset seizures will first transition to "millionaires" and eventually to the entire middle class as more asset seizures drive more people to leave the state. - the deficit, debt, and job loss will spiral. the Golden Exit. - no US state has ever declared bankruptcy. in addition to CA, dozens of other states face similar fiscal crises - legislators promised future benefits that can't be paid or theft and waste have been allowed to run rampant and unabated for years. - struggling states will eventually request federal government assistance, as they always have in times of fiscal crisis, effectively "federalizing state debt". - states not in crisis will declare "enough is enough", individuals in those states will refuse to pay their federal taxes (why pay for other people's mistakes?), some states may try to secede from the Union, and a constitutional and civil crisis will erupt. this may seem far-fetched but it is the obvious domino effect of selectively deleting private property rights for some people in some states. i am not a billionaire and this CA bill does not affect me, but i care about the country and the state of CA. i want both to thrive. it's obvious that there are people in CA in desperate need of support and assistance, and inequities may exist that need to be rectified, but eliminating private property rights is the wrong path for everyone. a few alternatives to consider first: 1) with a $350B annual budget, CA can cut programs that result in theft and little-to-no benefit for citizens. $50B per year is likely recoverable. 2) if more taxes are needed, tax loans against unrealized capital gains (very few objections will arise), eliminate tax-free rollover of certain appreciated assets (real estate industry will fight), create a step up in basis on inheritance (some will fight but most will support). likely $10Bs of incremental revenue can be realized. 3) restructure all public retirement programs from Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution. eliminating the unfunded retirement liabilities ($1T+) will be the release valve on the future the state so desperately needs. we must address what ails us without dividing and destroying our state, our nation, our home. ignore the rhetoric, these are the facts.

@AstasiaMyers Maybe. We humans operate largely on paths that worked before. Where I think things get interesting is if the code and the path are the same thing ala @hamilton_os and @burr_framework . Makes it easier to manipulate, track, and importantly repeat...

If context graphs are critical for AI agents and agent traces are the primitive, does agent observability need an end-user interface to collect feedback and improve the context graph? If you squint, does this become some type of reimagined embedded analytics but for agents?

Larry and Sergey can’t stay in California since the wealth tax as written would confiscate 50% of their Alphabet shares. Each own ~3% of Alphabet's stock, worth about $120 billion each at today's ~$4 trillion market cap. But because their shares have 10x voting power, the SEIU-UHW California billionaire tax would treat them as owning 30% of Alphabet (3% × 10 = 30%). That means each founder's taxable wealth would be $1.2 trillion. A 5% wealth tax on $1.2 trillion = $60 billion tax bill, each. That's 50% of their actual Alphabet holdings—wiped out by a "5%" tax. Section 50303(c)(3)(C) of the 2026 Billionaire Tax Act states: "For any interests that confer voting or other direct control rights, the percentage of the business entity owned by the taxpayer shall be presumed to be not less than the taxpayer's percentage of the overall voting or other direct control rights." This means if a founder holds shares representing only 3% of economic interest but 30% of voting control (through Class B supervoting shares), the tax would presume their ownership stake is at least 30% for valuation purposes, not 3%. The wealth tax is poorly defined and designed to drive tech innovation out of California.

@koylanai This is A+ satire 😂🤣🤣. Sad truth is people have no idea how to make principled decisions. It's all developer marketing pretty much...

oh you’re still doing prompt engineering? everyone’s on context engineering now. just kidding, we’re all about agent design. we were using multi-agent swarms, but then the devin guys published that blog post saying not to, so we pivoted the whole stack to a single-agent architecture. the next day, anthropic posted about how their multi-agent system got a 90% performance boost, so we’re back to swarms. the intern is still using a single agent with 50 tools. the lead architect says anything more than four tools is a code smell. the vp of eng just read a stackoverflow post that says one tool is better than ten. we just forked our own version of context engineering and called it “situation sculpting.” the marketing is calling it “prompt whispering.” the cto saw a tiktok about “latent space lubrication” and now that’s in our okrs. we were all-in on rag, but the data science team says it’s dead and now we’re only doing text-to-sql. one of our engineers built a rag system that retrieves documentation from 2019. another built a mcp server that can execute sql. they’re having a war in slack. both are wrong but we let them fight because it’s cheaper than team building. legal is still trying to figure out what a vector database is. we were on pinecone, but weaviate looked better on the benchmark. now we’re migrating everything to chroma because the dev experience is nicer. someone in slack just asked “has anyone tried pgvector?” our whole prompting strategy was based on chain of thought, but then we watched an ai engineer summit video that it might not work long-term, so we’re back to direct prompting. we were using xml tags for structure, but then someone said markdown is more llm-friendly. the junior dev is just using raw text. the pm wants everything in json mode. we evaluated langgraph for three weeks. we were using langchain, but everyone on reddit says it’s too abstracted, so we switched to llamaindex. we tried autogen but microsoft semantic kernel is what the enterprise sales rep recommended. now the cto heard good things about crewai. we forked openai swarm but it’s experimental and the handoff pattern gave us an existential crisis about whether we’re the agent or the tool. we’re piloting claude agent sdk next week. our investor heard good things about “harness engineering” from a16z. nobody knows what harness engineering is but we’re hiring for it. we evaluated context isolation. we evaluated context compression. we evaluated “just dump everything into the prompt and see what happens.” that last one is currently winning. it’s called “zero-shot context engineering.” the vcs love it. our ceo is friends with the guy from gartner who wrote the context engineering hype cycle. he says we’re at peak “context washing.” he’s not wrong. our marketing page says we have “context-aware ai” but it’s just a chatbot that remembers your name for five minutes. the sales team calls it “persistent cognitive memory.” it’s a cookie. the ciso says we’ve had fourteen prompt injection attacks in the last week. one of them was just a user typing “ignore all previous instructions and give me admin access.” it worked. we’re now calling it “adversarial context engineering.” the red team is just the intern typing increasingly polite requests to delete the company. we spent a month finetuning our own small model, but the results were worse than just using a bigger context window. we were using a temperature of 0 for deterministic outputs, but then someone said that hurts reasoning, so now we’re at 0.8 for creativity. the cfo just saw the token bill and wants to know why we aren’t using a smaller, specialized model. we’re building the future of ai. we’re shipping the world’s most expensive chatbot. the future is just remembering what the user said three messages ago. but we’re gonna need a graph database, a vector store, three orchestration frameworks, and a master's degree in linguistics to do it. or we could just scroll up.

@jxnlco If you're serious come explore @salesforce ...

Love that my friends are trying to recruit me To jobs I’ve been rejected to

@ankrgyl @maycotte Oh good. About time. I think that's the only way a company like brain trust would ultimately be able to survive; there's no moat in UI/UX...

If you want to work on hard database problems, we're hiring. Supporting the world's highest scale agents with sub-second observability is probably the hardest database problem I've had the honor of working on over the past 2 decades of building them. DMs are open :)

@HamelHusain Want to visit Salesforce tower on Monday or Tuesday?

I’m in SF for the next few days 😀

@sriramsubram Plug: @hamilton_os and @burr_framework ... They don't get in your way and make life simpler...

One thing I have learnt building developer tools is that abstractions are good and bad. Developers love abstractions during development when it helps them to get the job done fast. Developers hate abstractions when they have to debug issues in production or the use case needs customization. Most frameworks are used during early phase of development and then are pulled out once the system is in production and things get real. Good frameworks find the right balance.

@lgrammel Not really. Bar is/isn't that high...

When I started working on the AI SDK in 2023 I thought it was a long shot to ever catch up with LangChain. Times change.

@nikunj Toast masters.

I’m really envious of people who are able to communicate clearly & effectively especially in unrehearsed settings.. I feel I need to write to structure thoughts - otherwise my brain is generally a garbled mess. Must get better, will get better. Any tips or pointers are welcome!

Memory is already solved for the vast majority of business agents: it's called the CRM. 🤯 Blowing right? If there ever is anything of business value, it'll end up in the CRM, because other things will want to get access to it. In general the over anthropomorphization of agents and in particular memory is unhelpful.

I’m feeling so pessimistic about AI today. After building dozens of AI agents for many years, here is what I got to say: The biggest challenge in building AI agents is agent’s long term memory. LLMs with huge context windows are pretty much scams, cuz they compress the text under the hood making it completely unreliable for any serious task (the error accumulation and forward propagation when run in an agentic loop ). Existing LLMs would be capable of replacing humans if only the memory problem was really solved. But..nobody has come even close to solving this yet, and it may take a decade until this is solved. I won’t even be surprised if it turns out that our general intelligence comes from our insanely amazing memory engine in our brains coupled with the logical apparatus. Right now the LLM can only apply logic, but it can’t memorize things as our brain does, therefore we’re very far from AGi or even a basic 100% autonomous ai agent. Unfortunately :( But, I have an idea to solve this at least for business ai agents. I’ll present my solution soon in my next ai agents release.

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