Jev, Open Weights, and Coding Agents
An event for leading AI engineers, researchers, and founders, having Socratic discussions about new models, coding agents, harnesses, AI orchestrators, research papers, and more technical topics.
Topics This Month
Jev, CLiNER, CLiClass, and other AI Classifiers.
New models: GLM-3, Fable 5.1, Astra — down into the architecture rabbit hole
AI engineering: Orca, Agent Grid, VSCode Agents, Codex, and Claude Code — keep up with the AI coding cycle
Blog post: https://aisocratic.org/blog/ai-socratic-sep-2026
Participation is highly selective, conversations are high-signal and low-noise.
Agenda
6:00 PM Welcome — food, and drinks
7:00 PM Socratic Dialogues
8:00 PM Presentations
9:00 PM Networking at a bar nearby
Socratic Dialogues
We begin this session with a quick 5-seconds each intro round to get to know each other.
Then we dive into the topics, reading the last article from the blog, experts on the current topic are encouraged to share anything they know on it.
Slides: aisocratic.org/slides/nyc-sep-2026/1
Blog post: aisocratic.org/blog/ai-socratic-sep-2026
Presentations
Let's focus this event on sharing dev environments, AI tools, open source orchestrators.
Add yourself here to present: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pJ93aZQBCevLpCS0VVUPlFfmQ_xDmyYmdw3LK_zbwSA/edit?tab=t.0
Sponsors
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