Before You Vibe It, See Who's Built It.
Before You Vibe It, See Who's Built It.
How to find, judge and build on open-source tools, with real examples from Hasky and Affinidi.
AI makes it easy to start building. Before you do, check whether someone has already solved the problem, and whether their solution is worth building on. The fastest build is often the one you don't have to start from scratch.
John Ang walks through four or five examples from Hasky's own work. For each one he covers what the team needed, which open-source tools they chose, and what they still had to build or adapt. Along the way he shows how to judge what you find and spot the trade-offs before you commit.
Then Richard Lee, Senior Solutions Architect at Affinidi, picks up one of those examples. He gives a live demo of tools for agent identity, access and accountability: who an AI worker is, what it's allowed to touch, and how you trace what it did.
What you'll hear
Real build-or-borrow calls from Hasky: the need, the tool picked and what still had to be built
How to judge an open-source project before you depend on it
The trade-offs that show up only after you commit
A live Affinidi demo on agent identity, access and accountability
What you'll leave with
A quick way to check what already exists before you build
A clearer sense of when to adopt, adapt or build your own
A fresh take on the idea you walked in with
Who it's for
Builders, founders, product people, operators and aspiring FDEs who are about to build something with AI. You don't need to be an open-source expert. Every example comes from real work.
About John Ang
John is Founder and CEO of Hasky, where the team builds and runs AI workers in production.
About Richard Lee
Richard is a Senior Solutions Architect at Affinidi.
About Affinidi
Affinidi, a Temasek-founded technology company headquartered in Singapore, builds trust infrastructure for the digital economy. Its open-source control layer lets enterprises identify, govern, and audit every AI agent interaction within their walls and beyond. Everything is built on open standards, without vendor lock-in, and data stays with its owners.
Part of Hasky's Forward Deployment Academy. Bring an idea you're about to build, or something you suspect you didn't need to build yourself. Leave knowing what to pick up and what to build.
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.