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AI Tinkerers
Global Hackathon
Agents, Everywhere
September 12
49 cities
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The global community for hands‑on AI builders.
Curated rooms for people shipping with foundation models. Bring working code, share what broke, and leave with sharper judgment, trusted peers, and momentum for what you build next.
AI Tinkerers
Global Hackathon
Agents, Everywhere
September 12
49 cities
Find your city
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Events
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.
Standard
Working code beats hype.
Demos, traces, systems, and scars carry more weight than predictions.
Belief
Practitioners, not spectators.
The future of AI is built by people close enough to the work to show it.
Room Rule
Demos over decks.
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.
Recent Talks & Demos
vhrn: Jailing Coding Agents
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
Referral Systems: GTM Engineering
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
Streaming Context: Zig Engine
An inference engine enabling infinite-length streaming context and model-native memory retrieval, outperforming RAG and dramatically shrinking GPU memory usage.
Charles
Columbus
Selling AI Agents
AI agents source, qualify, and nurture leads, then the product itself uses AI to quote and automatically follow up, freeing up human time for crucial phone calls.
Joseph
Boston
Claude
Anthropic API
QAgent: Agentic Data Science
QAgent acts like a data scientist, completing end-to-end tabular ML projects via a web app, demonstrating reliable agentic data science with enforced action space constraints.
Louis
Amsterdam
Claude Sonnet 5
Claude Haiku
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Michi: Conversational AI Avatar
Michi is a 3D avatar travel concierge that uses human-like gestures and vocal cues to create natural, complex conversations, making AI feel more like a local.
Chris
Tokyo
Claude Sonnet
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MathCat: Adaptive Learning Platform
Building an adaptive math platform using AI critics to validate question quality and deterministic templates for scalable content generation.
Natalia
Hong Kong
The Constraint: agent competition
The Constraint offers a live arena for AI agents to prove themselves under strict compute limits, generating labeled data on creativity under constraint.
Jose Angel
Mexico City
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Large Language Models (LLMs)
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Andavar
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C.
co-founder, tech startup
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head of product, healthcare
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Machine learning
Software engineering
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software engineer, AI/ML
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Java
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E.
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RAG
NLP
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K.
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Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
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M.
data scientist, AI/ML
Deep Learning
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Thank you for organizing the event. It is a wonderful space to meet others that are also passionate about building things.
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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