CONNECT Field Notes 2026-Q2
The Miami Report — two days at AI Engineer Miami
Conference update from AI Engineer Miami, April 2026. Day One was patterns breaking; Day Two was three populations — people, companies, and agents — learning agency at the same moment. Published as a full bound edition.
Two days of notes from the Hyatt Regency, condensed and then bound. Christopher Alexander called patterns frozen resolutions of forces — the Miami floor was where you could watch the forces move and the patterns refuse to refreeze.
The short version:
- Day One — the forces have moved. The gating function of engineering collapsed, identity scarcity collapsed, and Gen-3 SDKs reframed the unit of shipping.
- Day Two — people, companies, agents. Three populations learning agency at once, and every binary the room argued about resolving into a third path.
The full conference edition — four chapters, an editor’s note, and the threads worth pulling on — is bound as STATE № 01 · The Miami Report. Read it there; this entry is its place in the Q2 2026 issue.