Rally SF · Newsletter
Every Sunday,
what's happening in
builder SF.
Editor's letter, the Rally event calendar, a community spotlight, and a handful of events worth your week.
- Issue #13Jul 5, 2026
I run my working life on a personal OS, a folder of markdown files that Claude references to take action on my behalf.
2 Rally events10 community picks - Issue #12Jun 28, 2026
The AI Engineer World's Fair takes over Moscone this week, and it's worth the trip.
2 Rally events11 community picks - Issue #11Jun 21, 2026
I'm working on one of my favorite parts of running Rally: lining up presenters for our Speaker Series.
2 Rally events9 community picks - Issue #10Jun 14, 2026
The room during the Claude Code demos at Building the State of the Art (BSOTA) was focused.
2 Rally events7 community picks - Issue #9Jun 7, 2026
Our third Agentic Coding Building the State of the Art (BSOTA) event was a night of lightning demos:
2 Rally events9 community picks - Issue #8May 31, 2026
The line from our last AI Research Circle I keep coming back to: we are two to three years out from robots operating reliably in uncontrolled environments, and the first wave will be non-humanoid robots in controlled environments like ware…
3 Rally events7 community picks - Issue #7May 24, 2026
I stopped noticing Waymos sooner than expected.
3 Rally events7 community picks - Issue #6May 17, 2026
Two days after our first Building the State of the Art (BSOTA) meetup, the community repo had 439 new lines of techniques, hooks, and architecture notes that attendees had worked out that night.
3 Rally events6 community picks - Issue #5May 10, 2026
On Monday, Rally hosted Erika Anderson and Yaoli Mao for a walkthrough of HumaneBench, their open benchmark scoring 800 scenarios against eight care ethics principles.
2 Rally events7 community picks - Issue #4May 3, 2026
Saturday's Build Your Own LLM workshop was a success.
3 Rally events5 community picks - Issue #3Apr 26, 2026
The Build Your Own LLM Workshop Saturday May 2 taught by Justin Angel quickly hit capacity.
4 Rally events5 community picks - Issue #2Apr 19, 2026
On Mondays at Builders Night, I go around the room and ask the same question: how can this group support you?
2 Rally events7 community picks - Issue #1Apr 12, 2026
Last Saturday, 30 builders spent three hours at Rally's first hackathon trying to solve for IRL connection.
2 Rally events7 community picks