Tech Videos — Week of 2026-05-08 to 2026-05-15#

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The single best video this week is the Dwarkesh Patel channel’s Building AlphaGo from scratch – Eric Jang. It offers a highly technical, rigorous breakdown of Monte Carlo Tree Search, bypassing the usual LLM hype to connect classical game-solving architectures directly to the reality of model reasoning loops.

Week in Review#

The dominant theme this week is the fundamental architectural shift required to support autonomous agents, moving away from stateless backends to stateful continuous compute and event-sourced logging. We are also seeing a stark collision between AI-generated volume and traditional engineering guardrails, highlighted by open-source maintainer burnout and devastating supply-chain attacks exploiting CI/CD cache vulnerabilities.

Tech Videos — 2026-05-10#

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Two Roads to Durable Agents: Replay vs. Snapshot — Eric Allam, Trigger.dev Why: A highly practical look at how the shift to long-running LLM agents breaks traditional stateless backend architectures, requiring a return to stateful compute via microVM memory snapshots.