AI Engineer NY ships a conference newspaper: 150-person hackathon, 50+ projects, agent audit era
jonmarkgo · x · 2026-10-14
AI Engineer New York launched a digital newspaper, The Daily Context, covering its conference week. Day one headlines: the inaugural AI Engineer NYC Hackathon, co-hosted with Major League Hacking, drew 150+ builders in Manhattan for a 12-hour build day demoing 50+ projects.
Other stories: MLH's head of product/engineering says the hard question in AI Hacktoberfest is knowing what's safe to break; Towards AI's analysis of 9,050 AI-written scripts found "slop words" are easy to fix; Anthropic taught Claude Managed Agents dynamic workflows with Unix/Linux lessons; of 140 sessions, two in five have "agent" in the title, with the real shift toward verifying, governing, and auditing agents; plus analysis of 1,368 real-world AI incidents.
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