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No slides. Demo the thing.

We focus on demos, code, and technical insight. No sales pitches, no generic AI panels. Working systems set the agenda.

Innovate. Share what broke.

Bring side projects, unfinished systems, architecture notes, trade-offs, and failure modes. The room is built for candid technical work.

Local rooms. Global signal.

Each city protects the room locally while contributing to a shared global standard for serious AI builders.

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Working code beats hype.

Demos, traces, systems, and scars carry more weight than predictions.

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Practitioners, not spectators.

The future of AI is built by people close enough to the work to show it.

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If it matters, bring the thing and show how it behaves.

Like the Homebrew Computer Club, AI Tinkerers is built around small rooms where practitioners compare notes before the path is obvious.

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Recent Talks & Demos

Aravind
Containing Coding Agents: Why I Run Them In a Jail
Sep 8
This tool runs coding agents in a project-specific jail, denying network egress by default and ensuring they can only access one directory, preventing prompt injection exploits.
Aravind Seattle
Gerard
Referral Systems: AI Optimization
Sep 8
Seven referral systems tested on real companies, exploring AI's impact on asking, timing, messaging, and rewards, with live integration into insider.works.
Gerard Valencia
Charles
Streaming context: how one-shot inference kills intelligence dead, an…
Sep 7
An inference engine enabling infinite-length streaming context and model-native memory retrieval, outperforming RAG and dramatically shrinking GPU memory usage.
Charles Columbus
Joseph
AI Agents Selling AI Agents
Sep 3
AI agents source, qualify, and outreach to leads, learning from results to optimize sales calls for human closing.
Joseph Boston
Claude Anthropic API
Louis
QAgent: Statistical Harness for ML
Sep 3
QAgent acts like a data scientist, avoiding common LLM pitfalls like bias and data leakage with a principled statistical harness.
Louis Amsterdam
Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Haiku
Richard
I Gave Six AI Agents a Scrum Board and Measured What Happened
Sep 1
AI agents build production healthcare software. A safety gate, not agents, commits code, ensuring stability and allowing prompt-driven development.
Richard Mexico City
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Michi: Conversational AI Avatar
Sep 1
Michi is a voice-first travel AI with a 3D avatar, using human-like reflexes and a hybrid model approach to create engaging and responsive conversational experiences.
Chris Tokyo
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MathCat: Adaptive Learning Platform
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Building an adaptive math platform using AI critics to validate question quality and deterministic templates for scalable content generation.
Natalia Hong Kong
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Machine Learning Full Stack Development
Sana A.
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Federated Learning Distributed Training
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software engineer, AI startup
Generative AI Backend Engineering
Hui C.
founder, cloud services
Cloud computing AWS
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founder, AI startup
Applied AI Computational Biology
Luke L.
co-founder, AI startup
AI/ML Systems Design Enterprise ML Infrastructure
Samuel H.
Senior Software Engineer @ Edge
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Jason L.
software engineer, AI
AI agent development eval infrastructure
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founder, AI products
AI product management Machine learning
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ML engineer, e-commerce
Machine Learning Computer Vision
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software developer, digital health
TypeScript React
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data science lead
Python Bioinformatics
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SDET architect, Trellix
Test Automation Java
Maya A.
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Cao T.
research engineer, AI/ML
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Nicolas B.
CEO, fintech
AI-driven Product Development Entrepreneurship
Scott S.
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TypeScript React/Next.js
Sidharth N.
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AI Agent Development React
Justin P.
developer relations, Google
AI Agent Design Rust
George B.
application developer, credit union
Go (Golang) RAG pipelines
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co-founder, fintech
AI agents LLMs
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senior ML engineer
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senior solution developer
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It was my first event. The community was welcoming and great! Appreciated the demos and examples with practical applications.

This was my first time attending the event, and getting to present was so much fun! Looking forward to attending more!

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