AI Dev Tool Track — Seattle Meetup

AI Tinkerers: Dev Tools is a new monthly session for the AI first builder: lightning demos, live code audits, and rapid-fire stack debates on the IDEs, the .md’s, and the agents. Brought to you by Actual AI and Amp.

What to expect

• “Dev‑Tools Changelog”, an interactive discussion of the latest news
• Short, 5-minute demos covering state of the art AI dev tooling/workflows followed by a 3-minute Q&A
• Science Fair style hands-on demos during networking time
• A collaborative space to exchange stacks, workflows, and lessons learned
• Food & refreshments!

Speaker proposals

We’re soliciting talks that show real code and practical learnings around AI development tooling. Proposals should include a concise talk title, a 2–3 sentence abstract, your technical depth, and an outline of the demo (strict 4 minutes, plan on 3). Submit your proposal using the form linked below. The screening question will be used to assess contribution to this track:

What is your experience with AI development tooling and what will you contribute to this track?

Submit Your Talk Proposal

Submit Your Talk Proposal

Start time and format

• Date: December 8th, 2025
• Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
• Location: Downtown Seattle (exact location will be shared with accepted attendees only; address withheld per event policy)
• Capacity: 150 attendees

How to participate

• Registration: Space is limited; please register on the event page above to lock your spot.
• Demos: We accept live demos and code-first setups. If accepted, you’ll present a 2-3 minute demo and then participate in a brief 2m Q&A.
• Proposals: All speaker proposals must be submitted via the link above.
• Information required from attendees: email and at least one of LinkedIn, Twitter, or GitHub.

Venue notes

The venue is in downtown Seattle. Exact details will be provided to attendees who RSVP.

📊 AI Tinkerers Seattle Stats

• Attendees: This exclusive community of 5,394 technical professionals features a high-signal membership where 35% are CTOs, founders, or principal architects. Key skill areas are balanced across generative AI orchestration (35%), distributed systems infrastructure (35%), and applied machine learning research (30%). Notable achievements include members deploying production-grade agentic architectures, pioneering open-source AI developer tooling, and optimizing GPU-compiler performance at scale.
• Companies Represented: Featuring tech giants like Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, and Google, alongside innovative AI platforms and startups such as OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenPipe, Fixie.ai, CopilotKit, and more
• Demos: A total of 623 demos were submitted and 270 were presented, yielding a dense mix of agentic software automation, retrieval/agent memory, and production-grade evaluation/observability. Exciting themes also emphasized real-time multimodal experiences (especially voice), structured deterministic tool-calling, and safety mechanisms such as sandboxing and authorization, alongside data-centric workflows like fine-tuning, synthetic data generation, and benchmark automation.
• Testimonials:

  “So freaking cool... Excited to try it out but also just think it did everything right.”

  — Founder, marketing AI

  “Really cool... The reverse engineering component blew my mind.”

  — Founder, marketing AI

  “Great selection of demos.”

  — Founder, AI GTM agency

  “Very interesting and nice to meet new people.”

  — CEO, decentralized AI infrastructure

  “Comfortable and well organized.”

  — Applied math researcher

  “Presentations were great!”

  — Senior engineer, cloud AI

  “It was my first time, I really enjoyed myself.”

  — Senior scientist, automotive

Sponsors

Amp - Amp is an agentic coding tool engineered to maximize what’s possible with today’s frontier models - autonomous reasoning, comprehensive code editing, and complex task execution.

Actual AI - Actual AI develops an AI-assisted engineering management platform designed to build high-performing AI-native software teams and automate Agile grunt-work.

Learn more about sponsorship

If you’re interested in supporting future AI Tinkerers Seattle events, visit https://seattle.aitinkerers.org/sponsors