AI Engineer NYC 2026 Closing Remarks - Ksenia Se, Turing Post & swyx, AI Engineer

Three days in New York had taken engineers from building agents to rethinking how financial institutions work and asking how to simulate the world. Ksenia Se of Turing Post suspected that quite a few people were leaving with a longer list of things to investigate than they had brought. For a room full of engineers, she thought, that seemed like a reasonable outcome.

Se thanked the speakers, program team, crew, sponsors and partners, then asked for applause for the people who had come ready to share their work and ask questions. She hoped some conversation started here would turn into work the room could hear about at the next AI Engineer. With that, she brought up swyx, who had curated the program.

swyx thanked the people who had stayed to the end and returned the applause to Se. This was her second time as MC. He recommended her Turing Post videos, singling out the time she puts into editing them.

After hearing from sponsors, attendees and speakers, swyx described the organizers’ ambition to make a home for AI Engineer in New York. He was particularly glad to have local AI founders in the room. In his view, the city gets too little credit for the frontier work already underway in its financial institutions and among people doing AI research and building AI infrastructure.

swyx was already wearing the shirt for the first of the upcoming summits.

• AIE CODE. The second annual San Francisco gathering would close out the 2026 flagship calendar. CODE was AI Engineer’s first summit devoted to a single field. Its focus reflected swyx’s view of coding agents as the leading example of where verifiable AI was headed. AIE CODE summit
• AI Engineer Europe. The European event would return to London in February for its second year there.
• The World’s Fair. The organizers expected 10,000 people in San Francisco the following summer, a gathering swyx described as larger than the other events combined.

A lot could happen in AI before summer. If it put everyone out of a job by then, swyx joked, at least they could come to more conferences. His parting request was something attendees could do as soon as they got home. Pick up a conversation with a new friend or professional contact and arrange to meet again. For the organizing team, seeing people meet on their own was one of the rewards of bringing them together in the first place.