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Akshat Bubna of Modal shows how CPU and memory demand changes across agent sandboxes and during a single run. Provisioning every sandbox for its peak can leave you paying for resources you do not need. From AI Engineer New York 2026. @ModalLabs @aiDotEngineer

Solve Intelligence (S23) builds AI software for patent attorneys. More than 700 IP teams use it, including firms like Perkins Coie and DLA Piper and in-house teams at Intel and Siemens. At YC x London, co-founders Chris, Angus, and Sanj sat down with YC Managing Partner Diana Hu to talk about applying to YC with an idea that was two weeks old, reaching millions in revenue with no salesperson and no sales background, and how AI is changing the future of law. Chapters: 00:00 - A two-week-old idea 02:39 - What were your chances of getting into YC? 04:27 - Leaving a quant job 06:55 - Why patents?

A coding agent opens a pull request and picks an email provider for you. How did it choose? Resend co-founder and CEO Zeno Rocha explores answer engine optimization (AEO) through a concrete example: which email provider does Claude Code recommend, and how does that change across model versions? Then comes the agent experience itself. Once the agent picks Resend, can it find the price, set up the account and send its first email? We also follow an email after the API call succeeds. Zeno explains what happens when Gmail throttles a burst, why a tracking pixel can give you the wrong idea about w