AIO-005: Feel the AGI
We were somewhere around Melbourne, on the edge of our weekly token limit, when the AI psychosis began to take hold.
Yes, another AI Ops — Melbourne Meetup event is upon us. An unholy gathering of developers, designers, marketers, founders and automation freaks.
For the first time ever, we've got two full length talks, including one from someone with "AI Ops" in their actual job title, which means this whole fake vibe-coded meetup is now dangerously close to becoming legitimate.
If you only make it to one AI Ops meetup this year, make it this one. This is not the night to miss and then wake up to some LinkedIn lunatic posting "still buzzing from last night" above a blurry photo of a slide, showing just enough sparks of AGI to make you comment "Oh damn, I missed it!" (for the third time this year).
I can only show you the door... you're the one who has to walk through it.
Agenda
5:30pm - 6:00pm: Doors open to our AI-pilled space at the Kogan offices.
6:00pm - 6:45pm: Meet and chat with fellow AI optimists (designers, developers, marketers, etc) over food and drinks while listening to gangsta rap.
6:45pm - 7:15pm: Talk #1 from Adam Brock (Founder of Hypermatic) on how he runs his one-person software startup using Codex, AI agents, and zero human employees.
7:15pm - 7:30pm: Short break between talks
7:30pm - 8:00pm: Talk #2 from Thomas Schwarz (AI Ops at BuildPass) on rethinking SaaS spend, build-vs-buy decisions, and what they're bringing in-house in the age of "Saaspocalypse."
8:00pm - 8:30pm: More time to chat to each other, then you can go home to check on your agents.
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Sponsors
After a huge turnout at the last meetup, we've increased capacity again thanks to Kogan - who are hosting the event and kindly covering food and drinks for all of you lunatics. Check out their open roles at https://careers.kogan.com/ to join an innovative, dynamic, and supportive team.
The meetup is also sponsored by Hypermatic (https://www.hypermatic.com/) - check them out if you want to save 15+ hours per week with their Premium Figma Plugins.
FAQ
What are we going to do at the meetup?
Feel the AGI on the first Wednesday of every month.
Sit around at a cool venue in Melbourne and talk to each other about AI.
Share practical ideas and examples of what we've been experimenting with in our workflows.
Talk about the most interesting things that have happened in AI over the last few weeks.
Speed-run our collective existential crisis.
Figure out how our roles and workflows are evolving together.
You SHOULD apply if:
You are optimistic about technology and AI, and want to explore the new frontier.
You live your life a quarter mile at a time and --dangerously-skip-permissions.
You are actively building, creating, automating or vibe-coding things with AI.
You are learning about and experimenting with AI in your free time.
You are using any kind of AI coding agents (OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Amp Code, etc).
You are using AI tools for design, video, image or content creation.
You are creating and managing AI agents for your own automations.
DO NOT apply if:
You basically have a fake job and don't do any real work.
You are an AI doomer who wants to nuke the data centres from orbit.
You think "workflow optimization" means scheduling another recurring meeting.
You think AI is just hype, but haven't actually tried building anything with it.
You haven't shipped anything real in your life, but you have a lot of AI takes.
Your role exists to slow things down, add friction or wait for permission.
Is this meetup a joke?
Yes (the domain is https://aiops.lol).
Is this meetup real?
What is real? If you're talking about what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. This is the world you know. You've been living in a dreamworld.