I spent the summer at Recurse Center , a programming retreat in Brooklyn, at the recommendation of my friend Cory. These are some things I did there. Participated in study groups RC has regular study groups that anyone can organize and schedule. For example, people would get together every Friday to work through old Advent of Code challenges together. I did Agentic Adventures, Practical Deep Learning, Math Monday, and a short series investigating an open source board game AI. Agentic Adventures Agentic Adventures is a discussion group for people interested in modern LLMs and agents; we did different things every week. Some highlights: Amanda and I built a remote sandbox for a vibecoding agent that we could run with dangerously-skip-permissions. In the same vein, Michelle taught us how to set up a sandboxed environment for local agents using ollama and docker. This was what we built the “Just One” game for, to investigate how agents can cooperate.…