🚀 AI in Production Series: A deep dive into shipping AI 🎉

🌟 Join Us for an Evening of Insightful Discussions 🌟

We’re excited to announce our upcoming event in the AI Tinkerers monthly series, focusing on the journey from demo to production. This is a fantastic opportunity for active builders to learn how to effectively implement AI solutions that serve real customers.

Note, this is NOT the AI Tinkers monthly meetup, but a new optional series.

📅 Event Schedule:

• 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM: Arrive and network
• 6:00 PM - 6:40 PM: Ishan - Spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai - Presenting his famous Spreadsheets-are-all-you-need talk, which will give you an intuition for how the brain of an LLM works using just spreadsheets. (30-minute talk + 10 mins Q&A)
• 6:45 PM - 7:25 PM: Stephen - CEO at Gordian Software - Sharing how they saved $100K and 3 months with $300, 3 hours and GPT for their new product Ascend Travel (30-minute talk + 10 mins Q&A)
• 7:30 PM - 8:10 PM: Vaibhav - boundaryml.com - Discussing how LLMs currently mess up structured output with a comparison of GPT 3.5, Llama 3.1, Mistral, GPT 4o, Haiku, Sonnet 3.5 with JSON mode, function calling, and SAP (30 mins + 10 mins Q&A)
• 8:15 PM - 9:00 PM: Networking

🍕🍺 Food and drinks will be served throughout the event.

Who is this for?

This event is tailored for AI Tinkerers who are actively building and working with AI technologies. If you’re a developer, researcher, or entrepreneur with hands-on experience in deploying AI solutions, this is the perfect opportunity to gain insights and share your experiences.

🤖 More Information

If you are new to the group, please be sure to read the AI Tinkerers FAQ.

👑 Sponsors

Special thanks to Stephen from Gordian Software for making this event possible and sponsoring food and drinks. If you can help support them, check out ascend.travel. They saved me (Vaibhav) $400 on my last trip to Austin at a 4 star hotel!

📊 AI Tinkerers Seattle Stats

• Member stats: This exclusive community of 5,360 technical professionals comprises approximately 43% senior software engineers, 32% AI/ML scientists, and 25% technical founders. Members possess deep expertise in agentic workflows, LLM orchestration, and cloud infrastructure. Notably, the group bridges elite enterprise talent from Microsoft and Amazon with venture-backed startups, driving rapid, open-source AI integration and local-first hardware-software innovations.