---
title: "\"I've never seen anything scarier than an LLM with tool calls.\" — Erik Meijer aka @HeadinTheBox"
category: "resources"
sourceLabels:
  - "Public YouTube metadata"
  - "YouTube transcript"
videoId: "-CnA2lGfymY"
last_enriched: "2026-07-16T08:28:12.385049+00:00"
---
# "I've never seen anything scarier than an LLM with tool calls." — Erik Meijer aka @HeadinTheBox

## What It Is
An official AI Engineer YouTube cut video for AI Engineer World's Fair San Francisco 2026. This is an event video source for the wiki, while the official schedule remains the canonical schedule source.

## Source Classification
- Source role: primary event video source for AI Engineer World's Fair San Francisco 2026.
- Channel/source: official AI Engineer YouTube channel cut video.
- Use: primary evidence for what the published talk recording, transcript, and captured slides show; official schedule pages remain canonical for schedule metadata.

## Transcript Status
Cached transcript text is available at `raw/sources/youtube-transcripts/-CnA2lGfymY.txt` (3,148 words).

## Topic Signals
- [[coding-agents|Coding Agents]], [[mcp|MCP]], [[autoresearch|AutoResearch]], [[agentic-search|Agentic Search]]
- Transcript keywords: `grind`, `refy`, `unfortunately`, `moving`, `point`, `conference`, `called`, `elementary`

## Link
[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CnA2lGfymY)

## Extracted Slides
- [[youtube--CnA2lGfymY-slides]]

## Transcript Markdown
- [[youtube--CnA2lGfymY-transcript]] — full cached transcript markdown.