the eighteen-month recap: AI Engineer, Singapore, May 2026

This is the eighteen-month recap: the talk I gave on day two of AI Engineer Singapore. A lot has happened since the six-month recap in Melbourne. The recording is below, followed by an edited transcript with the slides.Welcome back. For those who were at the party here last night, he actually came on for a couple of sets and DJed as well. So who is Geoffrey Huntley? He's an independent AI researcher known for doing unhinged things with AI. He's the person behind the Ralph loop, which is now incorporated in many, many tools that are used today. And he's going to be giving a talk about how everything is a factory.Ralph Wiggum as a "software engineer"How Ralph Wiggum went from 'The Simpsons' to the biggest name in AI right now - Venture Beat 😎Here's a cool little field report from a Y Combinator hackathon event where they put Ralph Wiggum to the test. "We Put a Coding Agent in a While Loop and It Shipped 6 Repos Overnight" https://github.com/Hello everyone. As confident as I might seem…