AI Tinkerers LA - The global community for hands‑on AI builders.

​Priority RSVP for AI Tinkerers members. If you have a profile at la.aitinkerers.org, you're in. New here? Create a profile and we'll prioritize approvals from builders on the platform. Public RSVPs are reviewed on a rolling basis as space allows.

Curious what other AI Tinkerers have been shipping? Come to the next AI Tinkerers LA meetup on May 19 by the beach in Venice. This is a high-trust room where active engineers, founders, and researchers share working code, architecture deep-dives, and hard-won lessons from the frontier of generative AI.

​What to Expect: Real Builds. Real Constraints.

​AI Tinkerers is selective by design. We filter the hype to protect builders, focusing only on signal.

• ​Demos > Decks: Presentations are short (~5 minutes) and must focus on implementation details, architecture, workflow graphs, and context engineering setups. No product pitches or slideware handwaving.

• ​Technical, Not Theoretical: Show us what broke, what trade-offs you made (e.g., MoE vs. dense models, inference speed vs. cost), and how you debugged your agentic workflows.

• ​A High-Trust Room: We encourage early-stage hacks, messy experiments, and novel approaches. The value is in the candid technical lesson learned, not production readiness.

​Submit Your Demo Proposal

​We are actively seeking builders to share their work. Priority will be given to demos showing working demos, and have some sort of take away insight that you learned along the way!

​This is a technical show-and-tell for builders, by builders. We want to see your messy experiments, creative hacks, and technical discoveries in action. Your demo should answer: “How did you build this interesting thing?” not “Why should someone use this product?”