Know Enough to Be Dangerous
AI Generalists — Know Enough to Be Dangerous
You don't need to be a machine learning engineer to make AI work for you. You just need to know what's out there, what's actually useful, and how to plug it into the things you're already doing.
That's AI Generalists. Every Wednesday, we get together to cut through the noise — the hype cycles, the benchmark wars, the "this changes everything" posts that change nothing — and focus on what matters: what tools exist right now, how real people are using them, and whether they're worth your time and money.
This meetup is for the person wearing five hats. The small business owner automating client intake at 2am. The freelancer who figured out how to use Claude to do in twenty minutes what used to take a full afternoon. The ops person who built a workflow that saved their team ten hours a week and nobody even noticed. The curious one who just wants to understand what's happening fast enough to make good decisions about it.
We go wide on purpose. Models, agents, automation platforms, prompt engineering, API costs, open-source alternatives, when to build versus when to buy — all fair game. One session might be a deep dive on which coding assistants are actually worth paying for. The next might be a breakdown of where AI saves real money versus where it's an expensive toy. We bring pricing data, real-world results, and honest assessments. No vendor pitches. No vibes-only demos.
The format is built for participation, not passive listening. Short, dense presentations followed by small group breakouts where you actually talk to people doing the work. The best insights at these meetups don't come from the slides — they come from the person sitting next to you who already solved the problem you're stuck on.
You don't need to be technical. You don't need to be non-technical. You just need to be curious and willing to share what you know. That's what makes a generalist — someone who connects dots across domains instead of staying in one lane.
Come figure out what's real. Leave with something you can use next morning.
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