AIO-006: AI Maniacs

Tyler Cowen recently used the term "AI Maniacs."

The kind of people who cancel a first date because their Claude Code weekly usage is about to reset and they haven't tokenmaxxed hard enough yet.

Who greet new model releases with more excitement than the birth of their first-born child... who they named "Fable."

Who put cameras around their house so an AI agent can remind them to drink more water.

If you're reading this thinking, "That all sounds perfectly reasonable..."

Welcome to the party, pal.

Join us for another AI Ops — Melbourne Meetup, featuring two talks from fellow AI maniacs building at the frontier of what's possible.

We'll see you there.

​Agenda

5:30pm - 6:00pm: Doors open to our AI-pilled space at the Stile offices.

6:00pm - 6:45pm: Meet and chat with fellow AI optimists (designers, developers, marketers, etc) over food and drinks while listening to gangsta rap.

6:45pm - 7:15pm: Talk #1 from Adnan Kassem (Commercial Manager at Kassem Group) on how he uses Hermes, an open-source AI Agent with persistent memory.

7:15pm - 7:30pm: Short break between talks

7:30pm - 8:00pm: Talk #2 from Jake Tracey and Ray Tran (both from Noice) on creating an AI Teammate for website content authoring.

8:00pm - 8:30pm: More time to chat to each other, then you can go home to check on your agents.

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​​​Sponsors

Stile Education are kindly letting us use their cool space, and are also taking care of food and drinks for all of you maniacs, so please go and check them out at https://stileeducation.com/ - they are the most engaging, rigorous, and inclusive science curriculum, built on a state of the art teaching and learning platform.

The meetup is also sponsored by Hypermatic (https://www.hypermatic.com/) - check them out if you want to save 15+ hours per week with their Premium Figma Plugins.

​​​FAQ

What are we going to do at the meetup?

Feel the AGI on the first Wednesday of every month.

Sit around at a cool venue in Melbourne and talk to each other about AI.

Share practical ideas and examples of what we've been experimenting with in our workflows.

Talk about the most interesting things that have happened in AI over the last few weeks.

Speed-run our collective existential crisis.

Figure out how our roles and workflows are evolving together.

You SHOULD apply if:

You are optimistic about technology and AI, and want to explore the new frontier.

You live your life a quarter mile at a time and --dangerously-skip-permissions.

You are actively building, creating, automating or vibe-coding things with AI.

You are learning about and experimenting with AI in your free time.

You are using any kind of AI coding agents (OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Amp Code, etc).

You are using AI tools for design, video, image or content creation.

You are creating and managing AI agents for your own automations.

DO NOT apply if:

You basically have a fake job and don't do any real work.

You are an AI doomer who wants to nuke the data centres from orbit.

You think "workflow optimization" means scheduling another recurring meeting.

You think AI is just hype, but haven't actually tried building anything with it.

You haven't shipped anything real in your life, but you have a lot of AI takes.

Your role exists to slow things down, add friction or wait for permission.

What's your website?

The domain is https://aiops.lol