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title: "What Lies Beneath the API — Benjamin Cowen, Modal"
category: "resources"
sourceLabels:
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videoId: "HvZXAOZ3iv8"
last_enriched: "2026-07-15T23:40:59.212984+00:00"
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# What Lies Beneath the API — Benjamin Cowen, Modal

## What It Is
An official AI Engineer YouTube channel video with a cached transcript. It is retained as supporting context only because it has not been verified as an actual AI Engineer World's Fair San Francisco 2026 event recording.

## Source Classification
- Source role: supporting official-channel video context, not first-class event evidence.
- Channel/source: official AI Engineer YouTube channel AI Engineer cut video.
- Use: background, speaker, company, or historical AIE context only; do not use for World's Fair San Francisco 2026 session claims unless manually verified against the official event.

## Transcript Status
Cached transcript text is available at `raw/sources/youtube-transcripts/HvZXAOZ3iv8.txt` (1,823 words).

## Topic Signals
- [[coding-agents|Coding Agents]], [[inference-engineering|Inference Engineering]], [[mcp|MCP]], [[ai-sandboxes|AI Sandboxes]]
- Transcript keywords: `fine`, `collecting`, `getting`, `thanks`, `probably`, `companies`, `cross`, `booth`

## Link
[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvZXAOZ3iv8)

## Extracted Slides
- [[youtube-HvZXAOZ3iv8-slides]]