Agentics: 1100 people RSVP'd to learn about coding agents
Pictures, videos, and slides from Agentics NYC: May 2026
Last Wednesday, we had our first in person Agentics meetup. 1100 people signed up to come fill a space that could fit max 200 people. We had to turn folks away at the door. That’s sorta a surreal thing for me to say. I can’t quite fathom how quickly the community has grown, but then again I suppose that is the same story with all things AI.
Agentics started as a little slack group that we put together a few months ago, of maybe 20 people who were using ai tools and all had the same questions. “What’s a skill file? What’s an agent swarm? How should I use these things?” Instead of answering the same question over and over we thought it would be easier to just put everyone in a big soup. And now that little slack group has 300 people and we’re doing massively over subscribed meet ups.
At its core, Agentics has always been about learning about coding agents. We bring together people who know a lot about these things, who spend all day thinking about these things, and put them in the same room as people who want to learn more.
About a month and a half ago, we started thinking about bringing agentics out of slack and into the real world.
It started when I met Vas (CEO of Cognee) at a lunch in SF. We got to talking about AI dev tools. And at some point I said, “vas, you know, were here in SF which is the center of all this ai stuff. And I’m talking to folks from the big labs, from anthropic and OpenAI and Google. And I’m slowly realizing…no one on the planet really knows how to use these tools.” And I still kinda think that!
Everyone knows that coding agents are important. Everyone can see that they are important. But they completely change all the best practices. So everyone is scrambling to figure out what those new best practices are. And it’s not just the tech teams. Product, and sales, and ops, and hr. It feels like everything we know about how businesses work is being reinvented! It’s actually kinda exciting, in my mind. Because every single person who is using these tools gets to be part of the discovery process as we collectively figure out what the new best practices are.
So anyway, Vas and I got to scheming. How could we create gravity, intellectual density, that would let us share what we’ve learned about these tools?
He brought in Garrison from Vellum and I poked some friends at Modal, and the thing was on. This meetup, the first of many, dedicated explicitly to learning how to use and deploy AI agents across an organization.
When we set out on this little adventure, we expected to get like 150 sign ups at most. We had no idea that we would be so oversubscribed, we would have to last-minute book a new venue and still turn people away.
But I think that really speaks to just how much interest there is. We had all sorts of people sign up — students and artists, executives and professors, founders, scientists, researchers, and engineers. Each person with a completely different view on how to use agents, all sharing (and inventing!) best practices.
I think the event went great, and I’m very excited to start planning the next one. For folks who weren’t able to make it, we have all of the slides and recordings here: May 2026 Meetup
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I'm curious what you would recommend for someone starting out in their career. Most of the people I see transitioning to coding agents are already experienced engineers who are applying their skills to deploying agents, but as a new grad I feel like I'm at the point in my career where I'm supposed to be building those skills, and I worry that using a coding agent will interrupt that learning process/cause overreliance/generally make it harder for me to mature into a proficient engineer.