Wellington AI Meetup — June 2026
Wellington AI Meetup — June 2026
Thursday 4th June | 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
📍 Hnry — 2/45 Johnston Street, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please do not come up to Level 2 until it's 5pm. One of our organisers will let you know when you can come up :)
Welcome to another Wellington AI Engineering meetup. We have two exciting talks on leveraging AI tooling to get more done, faster and to a higher quality. Read on for more details.
🏢 Venue — Hnry — Best venue in town! Thanks, Sammie, for hosting us three months in a row!
🍕 Drinks/Food — Younity — Shoutout to 🔗 Joel Norris for being a legend and supporting the AI Meetup!
Smoking Gun: Day-to-Day AI Tooling at Sterling
Sterling is a four-person team building AI agents that take the accounting busy work off finance teams' plates. Small team, high leverage. So they've built a stack of internal AI tooling: CLI commands, internal APIs and scheduled agents.
The cool stuff: a forward-deployed accountant who can investigate task issues, agents that triage overnight and create PRs, and slash commands the whole team uses.
The not-so-cool stuff: AI agents are very confident they've found "the smoking gun" even when they haven't. Overnight triage sometimes sweeps real bugs under the rug.
Ellery walks through the tools and the smoking guns that weren't.
Gert from Qrtr.ai
Gert from Qrtr.ai uses AI-first software development full-time to build their platform, even overnight while he sleeps. He will talk about his "do work autonomously while I sleep" spec-driven workflow that lets him brainstorm ideas and turn them into specs during the day, and run full implementation and review loops at night.