Co-work Fridays @ SQCo - The Stage: Why a single prompt-to-app agent needs domain-ready tools first
Friday @ SQ Collective
Note: Speaker Yaokai will be joining us virtually this session
Friday is our open co-working day. People come to work on their own projects, take breaks together, and usually stay through the afternoon. It's quiet, focused, and builder- and founder-led.
You can arrive anytime from 10AM. Most people show up after lunch and settle in before 1.30pm. Bring your laptop. Grab any open seat. Stay as long as you like.
At 1.30pm, we pause work briefly for a shared session called The Stage, then everyone goes back to working.
This is how Fridays here work.
The Stage @ 1.30pm
The Stage is a short, open-format session where builders and founders share something they are actively working on. A workflow, a technical breakdown, a lesson learned, or just a topic keeping them up at night.
The goal is to spark ideas you can try immediately after, during the same afternoon. After the session ends, most people simply open their laptops again and continue working.
Topic: Trusted Actuators First
Speaker:
Yaokai Jiang, Founder of Momen
Yaokai has 14 years of experience as a backend engineer. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge and an M.Sc. in Large-Scale Information Systems Technology from Carnegie Mellon University. He brings both a deep technical background and a practical startup perspective.
Description:
In the AI era, building software is easier than ever. But there is still a gap between quick demos and applications that actually work in the real world. For non-technical builders, relying only on AI-generated code often leads to fragile systems and loss of control.
Reliability comes from the contract between the AI agent model intent and product execution on safely changing your app
A trusted actuator is a product capability that the agent can safely use. Domain copilots are how the agent earns reliable capabilities one surface at a time. It may start as a focused copilot, and later become a toolset, context pack, validator, and eval suite inside the single agent.
After the session, we go back to work.
About SQ Collective
SQ Collective is a co-working space in Singapore for founders and builders working with AI. Fridays are open co-working days, with a short shared session called The Stage at 1.30pm. People come to work, learn something practical, and go back to building.
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