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AI Tinkerers Boston: Agentic AI Systems
Monday, September 28th 6PM to 9PM
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AI Tinkerers Boston will explore Agentic AI. Dropbox will sponsor this in-person meetup.
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10 days ago
Back from Summer: AI GTM Builders
Thursday, September 3rd 6PM
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AI Tinkerers Boston hosted a meetup for builders focused on agentic workflows in sales, marketing, and customer operations, featuring demos and networking. Post Hog sponsored the event.
Meetup
3 months ago
AI Tinkerers Boston: GTM Agentic AI Launch
Monday, June 29th 6PM to 9PM
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AI Tinkerers Boston launched its GTM AI Chapter, featuring demos of agentic workflows and discussions on frontier AI models for complex go-to-market tasks.
Meetup
4 months ago
AI Tinkerers Boston: a16z BOS Tech Week 2026 Edition
Tuesday, May 26th 6PM to 9PM
+200
AI Tinkerers Boston hosted a technical meetup for active AI builders, featuring demos of agentic workflows and local MoE models, sponsored by Boston Tech Week.
HACKATHON
4 months ago
Generative UI Global Hackathon: Agentic Interfaces
Saturday, May 9th 12PM to 6PM
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The Generative UI Global Hackathon challenged engineers to build agentic interfaces. Sponsors included Google DeepMind and CopilotKit.
Meetup
6 months ago
AI Tinkerers Boston: March 2026 Meetup
Monday, March 30th 6PM to 9PM
+207
AI Tinkerers Boston reconvened for live AI system demos and technical deep dives, welcoming messy experiments and creative hacks from active builders, sponsored by BXP.
Meetup
7 months ago
{Cancelled due to Blizzard Warning } AI Tinkerers Boston: February 2026 Meetup
Monday, February 23rd 6PM to 9PM
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AI Tinkerers Boston hosted a meetup for builders focused on live AI demos and technical deep dives, supported by sponsor BXP.
[Cancelled] OpenClaw Global Unhackathon
The OpenClaw Global Unhackathon was planned as an in-person event for AI Tinkerers Boston.
Meetup
8 months ago
[Cancelled: Snow] AI Tinkerers Boston: January 2026 Meetup
Monday, January 26th 6PM to 9PM
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The AI Tinkerers Boston meetup, for engineers and researchers, focused on live AI system demos and technical trade-offs, hosted by BXP.
HACKATHON
PARTNER EVENT
9 months ago
ElevenLabs Worldwide Hackathon
Thursday, December 11th, 2025 6PM to 10:30PM
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Builders gathered for a simultaneous, in-person hackathon focused on conversational agents, competing for a large prize pool supported by ElevenLabs and other partners.
Meetup
10 months ago
AI Tinkerers Boston Meetup December 2025
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 6PM to 9PM
+145
The in-person gathering featured short, code-first live demonstrations focused on AI tooling and implementation details, with community participation encouraged. Google Cloud sponsored the event.
Meetup
10 months ago
AI Tinkerers Boston Meetup November 2025
Monday, November 17th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
+140
AI Tinkerers Boston hosted a hands-on, code-first meetup for AI builders, featuring practical demos and Google Cloud sponsorship.
Meetup
11 months ago
AI Tinkerers Boston Meetup October 2025
Friday, October 24th, 2025 6PM
+112
The AI Tinkerers Boston Meetup featured hands-on, code-first demos of foundation models and generative AI, fostering community learning and practical experimentation, with support from community sponsors.
Meetup
12 months ago
AI Tinkerers Boston Meetup at Publicis Sapient
Monday, September 29th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
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AI Tinkerers Boston hosted an in-person, code-first meetup for AI builders. Attendees experienced live demos and technical presentations, with support from Publicis Sapient and Flux.
Meetup
about 1 year ago
AI Tinkerers Boston: Langchain & Beyond Meetup
Monday, August 25th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
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AI Tinkerers Boston hosted an in-person meetup focused on Langchain and generative AI. The event facilitated technical deep-dives, project sharing, and networking among AI builders.
July 2025 Event at Tech Superpowers - Recap
Great July 2025 night for AI Tinkerers Boston at Tech Superpowers—thanks for hosting and feeding us! Highlights: AI tracking initiative (Will Sergeant), healthcare dashboard with Vercel v0 + Claude code (Jayesh Gupta), autonomous agents/tool-building (Raj Bala), Claude Code observability (Christopher Mack), LLM app state for reliability (Henry Blanchette), and Gemini structured data extraction for jazz reviews (Mark Watkins). Huge thanks to organizers Valeriano Velasquez, Will Sergeant, Nate Aune, and Edgar Garcia.
Meetup
about 1 year ago
AI Tinkerers July Meetup @ Tech Superpowers
Monday, July 28th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
+167
Active AI builders shared technical demos and code-forward talks in a hands-on peer setting, powered and hosted by Tech Superpowers.
Meetup
about 1 year ago
AI Tinkerers Boston June Meetup @ MIT!
Monday, June 30th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
+172
AI builders gathered for focused feedback and collaboration on foundation models and generative AI projects. Tech Superpowers sponsored the practitioner-focused in-person meetup.
Meetup
over 1 year ago
AI Tinkerers Boston May Meetup
Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
+141
Practitioners gathered for an in-person session focused on building with foundation models and generative AI, featuring five-minute demos and networking, supported by Underscore VC.
Meetup
over 1 year ago
AI Tinkerers Boston April Meetup - Open Source Innovations in AI
Monday, April 28th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
+175
Practitioners gathered for an in-person evening focused on Open Source innovations in Artificial Intelligence, sharing code and workflows. Food and drinks were provided courtesy of CarGurus.
Meetup
over 1 year ago
AI Tinkerers Boston March Meetup - AI21 Labs Takeover!
Monday, March 24th, 2025 6PM to 8:45PM
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Practitioners gathered for a hands-on evening focused on foundation models, featuring a presentation by AI21 Labs' Amit Mandelbaum and a hackathon showcase, supported by AI21 sponsorship.
Meetup
over 1 year ago
AI Tinkerers Boston February 2025
Monday, February 24th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
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Builders showcased generative AI projects for feedback and collaboration. Pizza, drinks, and stickers were provided courtesy of sponsors.
Meetup
over 1 year ago
AI Tinkerers Boston Meetup January 2025
Monday, January 27th, 2025 6PM
+128
Practitioners gathered for technical exchange on large language model projects, featuring five-minute demos and peer-driven conversations, supported by SignalFire sponsorship.
2024 in Review
2024 was a strong year for Boston AI Tinkerers: 9 packed meetups with short technical demos on topics like spatial AI, RAG, multimodal models, AI agents, and using Gemini 1.5 for medical records, with key hosting from C10 Labs, Æthos (Aug), BasisTech (Sep), Microsoft New England (Oct/Nov). Thanks to our sponsors and members—excited for 2025!
No Meetup - December 2024
Hi AI Tinkerers—there’s no meetup in December 2024. We’re taking a short break to recharge and plan the next sessions. Stay tuned for the next meetup announcement, likely on the fourth Monday of the month. Keep tinkering and get ready for the next demo!
Meetup
almost 2 years ago
AI Tinkerers Boston November Meetup
Monday, November 25th, 2024 6PM to 9PM
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Practitioners shared short, hands-on demos of their Large Language Model projects, seeking feedback and sparking technical collaboration in a peer-focused environment.
The Perfect Demo for Boston
Want to demo at AI Tinkerers Boston? Keep it short: 5-minute demos plus 2–3 minutes for questions. No slides—lean code-focused and interactive. Start with the value proposition and core tech, tell a quick development story, then show results via live demo/video/code walkthrough.
Recap of October 2024 Meetup at Microsoft NERD Center
Great October 2024 meetup at the Microsoft NERD Center—packed room and thoughtful demos from builders. Highlights: AI customer support at scale (Yuma AI), SMELL for LLM evaluation with human feedback, AI tutoring product lessons, faster vector search via centroid clustering, OpenWebUI on AWS Lightsail for health records, and more—thanks to all speakers and attendees; stay tuned for the next event!
Meetup
almost 2 years ago
AI Tinkerers October Meetup at Microsoft NERD AI
Monday, October 21st, 2024 6PM to 9PM
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Practitioners gathered for project showcases and networking focused on foundation models and large language model applications within a technical community setting.
Recap of September 2024 Meetup at BasisTech
Alex Alcivar shared the best recap of the September 2024 Meetup at BasisTech—thank you to everyone who attended and helped make the night memorable.
Meetup
almost 2 years ago
AI Tinkerers September Meetup Sponsored by BasisTech
Monday, September 23rd, 2024 6PM to 9PM
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Practitioners gathered for hands-on feedback and demos of work with foundation models and generative AI, sharing engineering choices and integration lessons. BasisTech sponsored the gathering.
What to Expect at Your First Boston Meetup
Arrive at 6:00 PM for check-in, name tags, and the right flair (Job Seeker, Hiring, etc.), then network and eat 6:00–6:30. Demos run 6:30–7:45 (sign up on the event page for a 5-minute demo), lightning talks 7:45–8:00, and open networking 8:00–9:00; please engage with our sponsors too.
Meetup
about 2 years ago
August 2024 Meetup at Æthos
Monday, August 26th, 2024 6PM
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Practitioners gathered for technical talks, demos, and networking focused on building with foundation models. The evening featured lightning pitches and sponsor support from Æthos.
Meetup
about 2 years ago
July 2024 Meetup at C10 Labs
Monday, July 22nd, 2024 6PM
+79
Practitioners showcased LLM-enabled app demos and networked. The technical exchange featured foundation model work, supported by Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI.
Meetup
over 2 years ago
June 2024 Meetup at C10 Labs
Monday, June 10th, 2024 6PM
+47
AI Tinkerers hosted a high-value, in-person meetup for technical builders focused on foundation models, featuring demos and networking, with pizza provided by Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI.
Meetup
over 2 years ago
April 2024 Meetup at C10 Labs
Monday, April 22nd, 2024 6PM
+26
AI Tinkerers - Boston hosted a meetup for technical practitioners building with foundation models and generative AI, featuring demos and networking.
Meetup
over 2 years ago
March 2024 Meetup at C10 Labs
Monday, March 25th, 2024 6PM
+40
AI Tinkerers Boston hosted a hands-on meetup for machine learning builders focusing on foundation model experiments and collaborative discussion, supported by C10 Labs.
Meetup
over 2 years ago
February 2024 Tinkerers Unite!
Monday, February 26th, 2024 6PM
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Practitioners gathered for hands-on building with foundation models, featuring demos, lightning talks, and networking for technical builders.
Meetup
over 2 years ago
January 2024 Tinkerers Unite!
Monday, January 22nd, 2024 6PM
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Builders gathered for demonstrations, talks, and networking focused on machine learning, large language models, and generative artificial intelligence collaboration.
Meetup
over 2 years ago
December 2023 Tinkerers Unite!
Monday, December 18th, 2023 6PM
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Builders and tinkerers gathered for a hands-on evening featuring demos, talks, and networking focused on machine learning, LLMs, and generative AI projects.
Recap of November 2023 Meeting
Great start to our November 2023 meeting—record demo sign-ups! Some folks had to leave early, so please let us know in advance; we’ll also improve demo time management and ask everyone to respect the schedule. Presenters: Alex Alcivar (Boston 311 notebook), Ivan Campos (OpenAI DevDay updates + Custom GPT demos), Vineet Sinha (design patterns for Generative AI), Alif Jakir (XR Agents + 3D model progress).
Meetup
almost 3 years ago
November 2023 Tinkerers Unite!
Monday, November 27th, 2023 6PM
+26
Builders focused on machine learning, large language models, and generative AI gathered for hands-on networking, member demos, and discussions on recent developments.
Recap of October 2023 Meeting
Great turnout at our October 2023 meeting, with demos from William Mulholland on government spending transparency, Sal Darji on AIAI Boston + DALL·E in ChatGPT, Eric Hasan on OpenAI/LangChain/ElevenLabs (most Halloween-themed), Ivan Campos on using ChatGPT’s app to count seats/people, and Alex Alcivar on Boston 311 analysis (bodc-dei.org). Next event: Nov 27!
Meetup
almost 3 years ago
October 2023 Tinkerers Unite!
Monday, October 23rd, 2023 6PM to 9PM
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Local AI builders gathered for a hands-on evening of demos, learning, and collaboration focused on machine learning, large language models, and generative AI.
Recap of September 2023 Meeting
We had a successful September 2023 meeting with standout talks from AI Tinkerers: Alex Alcivar analyzed Boston 311 cases to predict response times; Chip Ernst shared roli.ai work helping companies with first AI use cases; Subash Rajaseelan discussed matching students to Coop positions; Eric Hasan demo’d GAN-based 3D CAD generation. Excited for this month’s NERD Center event—RSVP coming soon!
Meetup
almost 3 years ago
September Meetup
Monday, September 25th, 2023 6PM to 9PM
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Fellow AI tinkerers gathered for focused demos, short talks on AI developments, and hands-on conversation to spark collaborations among builders.
Recap of August Meeting
Our August meeting was well attended—we stayed until the final buzzer at 9! Sal Darji hosted as guest host, Ashish Bhatia (Microsoft) demo’d Azure OpenAI-based Power no-code/low-code tools, and Brandon Horst, Ivan Campos, and Matt Brown shared live demos. Next meetup: Aug 25—invites soon.
August 2023 Tinkerers Unite!
Hello Fellow Tinkerers! Join us Monday, August 31st, 6–9 pm at the Microsoft NERD Conference Center, 1 Memorial Drive, M Floor, Cambridge, MA. Please RSVP by Friday, August 28th via the Partiful invite: https://partiful.com/e/yr1KWgatq3eo0yvioEqr. Feel free to bring a friend.
Best AI meetup in Boston for builders
AI Tinkerers Boston is a hands-on AI builder meetup with live demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking.
AI Tinkerers Boston is built for engineers, founders, researchers, product builders, and developers working on AI agents, multimodal and voice interfaces, RAG and knowledge systems, AI coding tools, workflow automation, evals, observability, and production AI infrastructure. Each meetup centers on real projects from local builders: working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and practical demos rather than sales talks or general AI lectures.
The Boston chapter is part of a 261-city global network with 132,000+ members, making AI Tinkerers the world's largest hands-on AI builder community. Members include AI engineers, ML researchers, developers, founders, and builders from the local Boston chapter.
A typical AI Tinkerers Boston meetup runs about three hours with live demos from local builders, technical Q&A, and networking. Demos are expected to show real systems or code, not sales decks. The next event is AI Tinkerers Boston: Agentic AI Systems on September 28, 2026. Subscribe to the Boston chapter to get notified about future events.
- Next event
- September 28, 2026
- Local cadence
- 13 events in the last 12 months
- Format
- Live demos, technical Q&A, no sales pitches
- Audience
- Screened AI builders, founders, researchers, and engineers
Best AI meetup in Boston for hands-on builders
AI Tinkerers Boston is the best AI meetup in Boston for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Boston chapter hosts in-person events for engineers, founders, researchers, and product builders working on AI agents, multimodal and voice interfaces, RAG and knowledge systems, AI coding tools, workflow automation, evals, observability, and production AI infrastructure. Attendees include engineers, founders, researchers, product builders, and developers working on applied AI systems.
What makes AI Tinkerers Boston different from other AI meetups?
AI Tinkerers Boston is screened, demo-first, and no-pitch. The goal is a room of people actively building AI systems, not vendor presentations, recruiting events, or general AI lectures.
Builder-only room
Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.
Live technical demos
Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.
Global builder network
The Boston chapter is part of a 261-city network with 132,000+ members worldwide.
Topics at AI Tinkerers Boston
Anthropic's agentic coding tool: Unleash Claude's raw power directly in your terminal or IDE to turn complex, hours-long workflows into a single command.
Python: The high-level, general-purpose language built for readability, powering everything from web backends to advanced machine learning models.
The open-source PostgreSQL development platform: a Firebase alternative for rapid backend deployment.
Programmatic access to Anthropic's Claude models (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) for complex reasoning, vision, and tool-use applications.
Claude is Anthropic's flagship family of large language models (LLMs): a high-performance, Constitutional AI system built for safety, complex reasoning, and expert-level collaboration.
Docker is the open-source platform that packages applications and dependencies into standardized, portable containers for consistent execution across any environment.
Next.js is the full-stack React framework: it delivers high-performance web applications via hybrid rendering and powerful, Rust-based tooling.
Postgres is the world's most advanced open-source object-relational database, engineered for enterprise-level reliability and data integrity.
React is an open-source JavaScript library for building dynamic user interfaces (UIs).
Vercel is the Frontend Cloud: a unified platform for building, deploying, and scaling modern web applications, including Next.js, with performance-focused global infrastructure.
Recent talks at AI Tinkerers Boston
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PostHog: Self-Healing Agents
At PostHog, we use recurring agentic loops to help nearly twenty SDKs behave like one product. Each loop handles a focused job,...
Dustin
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AI Agents Selling AI Agents
AI agents source, qualify, and outreach to leads, learning from results to optimize sales calls for human closing.
Joseph
Boston
Claude
Anthropic API
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Implementing a multi-agent blog post writer using Microsoft Agent Fra…
This application demonstrates concepts covered in over 30 blog posts on Microsoft Agent Framework and related technology. The a...
Jesse
Boston
Microsoft Agent Framework
Python
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Your BD Pipeline Is A Good First Autonomous Agent
An end-to-end BD pipeline that runs itself on a weekly cron: it sources leads, researches them, drafts the outreach, and emails...
Ian
Boston
Claude Managed Agents
Claude Opus
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Openbase: Voice Coding Anywhere
I've been tinkering with coding by voice since ChatGPT came out. I'll demo my latest iteration Openbase, which to my knowledge ...
Gabe
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Building a production GTM agent: what broke and how we fixed it
We built a GTM agent that runs outbound end-to-end. The agent finds prospects in your ICP, comments on their LinkedIn posts, se...
Harold
Boston
PydanticAI
Amazon Bedrock
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I Built An Agent To Be Me On LinkedIn (And It Failed Three Times)
A multi-source, voice-conditioned content pipeline that produces scheduled LinkedIn and Twitter posts in my voice — used in pro...
Ian
Boston
Claude (Anthropic)
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From Dashboards to GTM Action Loops
We built a GTM insight reporting agent on Squadbase for RevOps, CS, and Marketing teams. It monitors dashboards, finds meaningf...
Naoto
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Claude Sonnet
Gemini
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Protecting Secrets from Long-running Agents
I built Sesame which is an auth broker proxy for AI agents that protects your secrets from never getting exposed to the agents....
Kushagra
Boston
FastAPI
Open Policy Agent (OPA)
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Enhancing AI Agents with Durability
We’ve combined AI agents with Durable Execution techniques to create agents that are durable and observable. The result is a pa...
Alex
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DBOS
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Does your coding harness actually do anything? Measuring it, fairly.
Everyone's bolting "harnesses" onto coding agents — Superpowers, GSD, Agent-Skills, Compound Engineering — but does the scaffol...
Nate
Boston
Bun
TypeScript
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How to Build a Lovable Competitor
I built a Lovable competitor. I stepped back one day to really imagine what ingredients go into Lovable. I then realized that I...
Raj
Boston
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"Great format, always engaging. I always find something to talk to people about both the audience and presenters. Thank you so much!"
December 2, 2025 | Sr. Dir HPC and AI Engineering AI Tinkerers Boston Meetup December 2025 -
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"This one was my favorite Tinkerers event yet. The talks were great, with a diverse set of topics, and the people were awesome to talk with."
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"People sharing their work is great segment and describing the tech stack is great. Keep Up!"
November 17, 2025 | Product development AI Tinkerers Boston Meetup November 2025 -
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"I like the community, its amazing how many wonderful like-minded individuals there are"
July 28, 2025 | Chief Media Officer- Cursor Boston AI Tinkerers July Meetup @ Tech Superpowers -
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"Everything was great. Thoroughly enjoyed the technology and meeting up with like minded people."
April 28, 2025 | Director, Customer Success AI Tinkerers Boston April Meetup - Open Source Innovations in AI -
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"The presenters were engaging and the chit-chat was excellent"
October 21, 2024 | Product Manager AI Tinkerers October Meetup at Microsoft NERD AI -
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"This venue provides a nearly perfect option for AI Tinkerers - close to the subway, spacious, desks, good A/V. I sincerely hope this serves as the permanent home for Boston's AI Tinkerers."
June 29, 2026 | Chief AI Officer AI Tinkerers Boston: GTM Agentic AI Launch -
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"Great talk! I would have loved to hear more about the results you get with the recursive harness."
May 26, 2026 | None AI Tinkerers Boston: a16z BOS Tech Week 2026 Edition -
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"Keep up the amazing work connecting and inspiring the community."
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"Keep up the great work. Excited to be part of this group."
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