20 Builders, No Slides

20 Builders, No Slides
MARCH 29, 2026
Got invited to a dinner during SXSW. Twenty or so AI builders from various disciplines, all seated at Juniper on East 1st downtown. Hosted by Google DeepMind and AI Tinkerers — and I'm pretty sure Google picked up the check for everyone.
No presentations, no slides. Just a room full of developers talking shop over good food. That's the kind of event I'll always say yes to.
I still need to work on talking to more people at these things. I tend to grab a few folks in proximity and get cooking — deep into a thread before I've even looked around the room. It's a pattern I'm aware of. Not fixing it anytime soon.
Good time. Good people. Grateful to Google and the AI Tinkerers group for putting it together and picking up the tab. That's the SXSW I'll show up for.




