AI Tinkerers Events
title: “AI Tinkerers”
description: “Notes from a monthly gathering of technically-minded AI enthusiasts”
AI Tinkerers is a monthly gathering held in Seattle and many other cities with attendance limited to technical people who are actively developing AI-related code and want to share tips and tricks with colleagues.
September 2024
July 2024
June 2024
Jun 6, 2024
Kenny Daniel, a software engineer at Hyparam shows Hyparquet: Read and extract data from Parquet files directly in JavaScript environments, both in Node.js and in the browser. It is designed to be fast, memory-efficient, and easy to use.
- Designed to work with huge ML datasets (like starcoder)
Justin Uberti, Co-Founder and CTO at Fixie.ai: Ultravox is a “speech LLM” that uses natively trained acoustic tokens to get lower latency and better accuracy. Open source.
James Dominguez “WorldEnder.ai” A text-adventure RPG using structured outputs from LLMs as the backend to simulate the decline of humanity, the outcome of global catastrophes, and your quest to rebuild civilization. developing a text-based adventure RPG that leverages large language models as an interactive game engine
Nikita Wootten, Senior Software Engineer at Kanary, demonstrated a simple yet innovative approach to improving the user experience of repetitive online questionnaires using language models.
Kevin Atkinson, who claims not be be a coder, showed off a sophisticated system he built that lets him generate sample code. Give it the API manual and it will preserve the specific function names. Kevin Atkinson, Director of Technology & Operations, unveiled AI ∞ UI, a versatile web interface he developed using AI-generated code, enabling seamless interaction with various LLM APIs.
Steve Kenzrel Pick-ems. An LLM agent built on top of OpenAI that predicts winners for ESPN’s Pick-Em’s game. scrapes sports data and predicts winners for ESPN’s Pick-Em’s game, showcasing web data scraping, task-specific agent coordination, and prompt engineering techniques.
Vineeth Voruganti, Founder of Plastic Labs showed [YouSim] “infinite backrooms” and other ways to use LLM “theory of mind “ to generate interesting new game identities.
Michael Magán, Founder at Fractional PM, presented “Bizspace” - a platform that redesigns outdated small business websites, showcasing his journey and the potential impact on the small business landscape. https://bio.link/magan
April 2024
Demo #1 - Santiago Medina - Moondream and Rust, Mobile moondream, and X-ish (moondream filtering of social feed)
GitHub - PioneerSquareLabs/jacb-ai-website: The jacb.ai marketing website JACB “Just Another Coding Bot”
The jacb.ai marketing website. Contribute to PioneerSquareLabs/jacb-ai-website development by creating an account on GitHub. Kevin Leneway (@kleneway) on X
PSL Principal AI Engineer. Creator of JACoB - Just Another Coding Bot. Previously co-founder of Haiku Deck, Microsoft Developer Evangelist.
David from Open Pipe showed off his Step-One app that, given a prompt, will suggest Reddit forums that would make a good place to promote a new idea. (Github)
February 2024
Seattle event Full Audio and Transcript:
ChatBees
https://Chatbees.ai
“Simple APIs to connect your data sources. Craft a LLM app for your data in mere minutes.”
# Configure API key and account ID
cdb.init(api_key="my_api_key", account_id="my_account_id")
# Create a collection called llm_research
col = cdb.Collection(name='llm_research')
cdb.create_collection(col)
# Local file and URLs are both supported.
# URL must contain the full scheme prefix (http:// or https://)
col.upload_document('/path/to/transformer.pdf')
col.upload_document('https://path/to/transformer.pdf')
# summarize the paper
summary = col.summarize_document('transformer.pdf')
# ask a question
answer, refs = col.ask('what is a transformer?')Brainylion: Using vision AI to audit web sites
Demo #3 - Vlad and Hayk http://www.brainylion.com/
Enter a website URL and it will diagnose its quality based on typical measures especially relevant to a local business.
Moondream
https://github.com/vikhyat/moondream a tiny vision-specific language model by https://x.com/vikhyatk
Try it on HuggingFace
Coder: An AI Coding assistant for C
by Greg Wroblewski
class CodeUtils
{
static readonly string PROMPTS_DIR = "_prompts";
static readonly string[] EXCLUDED_DIRS = { "bin", "obj", PROMPTS_DIR };
static readonly string TODO = "TODO" + ":";
static readonly string CSDEV = @"
you are a software engineer, experienced C# developer;
write only code after each prompt;
include implementations of any helper methods you introduce
";
static readonly string PROMPT1 = @"
given C# code as helper, alredy implemented part, to be used as needed
";
...Other Meetups
July 2023
PSL Adam Loving showed off Edgar, Typescript-based software agent based on the Voyager Paper
Kevin Lalli: SatGPT is a simple chatbot front-end to the @hydrosat company that “turns satellite data into useful intelligence”
Nikita Shamgunov. @nikitabase Store Neon: embedding in Postgres see Using Postgres
WhyLabs LangKit Sam Gracie shows a demo of watching the output of an LLM chat session for toxic language and more.
Minsoo @Bluebox.io AI self driving car
Atai Burkai @ataiiam Recursively AI Co Pilot Kit
Add a powerful & hackable copilot to any app, in an afternoon.