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.

July 2024

AI Tinkerers Seattle 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Michael Magán, Founder at Fractional PM, presented “Bizspace” - a platform that redesigns outdated small business websites, showcasing his journey and the potential impact on the small business landscape.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

Moondream

Coder: An AI Coding assistant for C

by Greg Wroblewski

Github: @gwroblew\coder

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.