AI Tinkerers

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.

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)

David from Open Pipe and Step-One ## February 2024

Seattle event Full Audio and Transcript:

ChatBees

https://Chatbees.ai
Chatbees

“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

Moondream

Coder: An AI Coding assistant for C#

by Greg Wroblewski

Coder

Github: @gwroblew

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.