Past Meetups

Veteran engineering leader working across SDKs, tooling, compilers, graphics, and large-scale product systems. Loren shared Aviary and lessons from building elegant solutions to hard technical problems.

AI art director and creative lead whose work spans MTV, Nickelodeon, Rick and Morty, and CB2. Eric walked us through how he built his Ask Little Chicken Show app in Xcode using agentic AI.

Linux and computer systems specialist focused on automation, troubleshooting, and unconventional solutions. Edwin presented "You Can Just Do Things: Turning Cheap No-Name Gadgets Into Your Dream Tools."

The night ended with our youngest speaker ever — Yichen, 11 years old, who built and launched ZexirAI, a tool that lets you save a personal profile and use it across multiple AI models.

Andre shared lessons from vibe coding a presentation app to the App Store — what it took for a fitness-app founder to ship his next product with AI.

Rose walked us through her path from social worker and author to AI agency founder, going deep on agents, consulting, and what's actually working in the field.

Joe showed us his process for making art with AI, from sketch to a printed 3D character and all the tools he uses along the way.

Luis talked about his process of building a SaaS in 3 nights and how he ported his 20 years of engineering experience into making guardrails for his coding agent.

Musician, writer, creative strategist on the empowerment of creatives by AI.

Neal, formerly at Meta, walked us through his vibe coding journey. He showed what he built with Lovable, Claude, and Claude Code. From games to fully featured apps, Neal has been at it for four months and is on fire.

Joseph is Director of Fund Development at the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC). He walked us through a dashboard he built using his 20+ years of industry experience. Spreadsheet to a fully functional dashboard in a weekend. Joseph has been vibe coding for over two years and is also on fire.

LNSY talked about building plugins for Obsidian and how easy it is to bring LLMs into the note-taking app for enhanced productivity.

Mike talked about updating legacy WordPress websites with the help of AI and also discussed Jevons paradox as covered by Simon Willison - how making AI more efficient can lead to increased overall usage.

Matt talked about building event websites with AI that have automated reminders for the event and shared his tech stack for creating and managing event RSVPs with Cloudflare Workers and Mailgun.