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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.

Belief

Practitioners, not spectators.

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

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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.

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X to Slack Listening
Aug 26
This agent aggressively filters X noise to deliver a concise Slack digest of relevant "managed agents" conversations, overcoming previous false positive issues.
Ishaan San Francisco
Aline
Mafagrafos: Fable 5 Customization Tool
Aug 26
Building a Canva-like 3D model customizer for Mafagrafos using Fable 5, focusing on user experience and product design without direct AI interaction.
Aline Curitiba
Jurden
Goals MCP: Prevent Fake Done
Aug 26
Preventing agents from falsely reporting completion, this demo showcases the goals MCP in action, ensuring tasks are truly finished before an agent signals "done."
Jurden Missoula
goals_mcp Claude Code
Alessandro
ast-grep: Agent Usage Lessons
Aug 26
Analyzing 1,406 coding agent invocations of ast-grep reveals when AST-aware code search excels and when simpler text search suffices.
Alessandro Dublin
AST-Grep tree-sitter
Isaac
UKPT: Agent Architecture Testing
Aug 26
Architecture testing for AI agents using a Kotlin Multiplatform template creates readable documentation and strict guardrails, applicable across languages.
Isaac Wellington
Kotlin Multiplatform Konsist
Christal
PalliAssist: Compassionate Palliative AI
Aug 22
PalliAssist uses Gemma and RAG to provide compassionate AI support for palliative care, managing symptoms, medications, and appointments with personalized, trustworthy guidance.
Christal Mombasa
Gemma 3n RAG
Max
Automated context compaction strategies
Aug 20
Context Structured Merge intelligently retrieves relevant historical context on demand, reducing LLM token usage through database-inspired memory management.
Max San Diego
Large Language Model Context Structured Merge
Nishaanth
Ubiklaw: Voice Dashboard Agent
Aug 19
Ubiklaw lets you voice-control your smart home dashboard layout dynamically, running locally on NVIDIA DGX Spark.
Nishaanth Seattle
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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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