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Betaworks, 29 Little W 12th St, San Francisco
Feb 04 (Wed) , 2026 @ 06:00 PM
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How are you turning design into code? This month's AI Tinkerers demo day is focusing on a specific focus, which is taking visual media- mockups, screenshots, design, & turning them into production ready code.
Everyone has design context floating around. Figma files, screenshots, PR comments, Notion docs, bug tickets, Slack threads, CI logs.

This meetup is a builders' night about the design code loop. How teams are codifying design intent, making it testable, & wiring it into modern AI-assisted coding workflows. Screenshots are one common implementation detail, but the real question is bigger: how do you turn design intent into something engineers (and agents) can act on?

Come share what you've been jamming on, & learn with the Baz team as they walk through their Spec Reviewer Design Spotlight work: capturing runtime UI evidence, localizing the right element for a requirement, & rendering artifacts that stay readable across device sizes. Expect a live demo. Then we'll do community demos from teams building on this theme across frontend, QA, design parity, CI, & AI coding tools.

No slide decks please. Just working systems & the people who built them.

What To Expect
Short technical talks + live demos. Show your workflow, not your opinions.
Design-to-code loops in the real world. Requirements, design systems, UI verification, PR review, & AI-assisted iteration.
A builders' room. Engineers, designers-who-code, QA/infra folks, & anyone trying to make design intent computable.
Pizza, little bites, soda. Maybe even a white claw or two.


Who is this for?
We are not just AI enthusiasts, we are AI Tinkerers. The core essence of AI Tinkerers is active collaboration around early-stage discovery & innovation, which requires a high degree of experimentation, vulnerability, openness to sharing challenges & learnings, & collaboration among individuals with a shared level of expertise. This unique environment allows us to embrace experimentation, foster an atmosphere of trust & innovation, & create world-changing solutions.

What is AI Tinkerers?
AI Tinkerers is a meetup exclusively for practitioners with technical, machine learning, & entrepreneurial backgrounds who are actively building & working with foundation models, such as large language models (LLMs) & generative AI. If you're deeply passionate about creating LLM-enabled applications, have hands-on experience in building such systems, & want to connect with like-minded people who share your level of commitment, then this group is the perfect fit for you. With AI Tinkerers meetings happening in many cities, we support a dedicated global community.

Demo Submissions
Submit your demo proposal here: Submit Your Demo Proposal

We want demos that answer the prompt: How are you taking designs & incorporating them into your AI coding flow? Examples:

Turning Figma/design system intent into checkable requirements. Bonus points if it involves the Figma MCP.
UI verification workflows that aren't brittle (visual, structural, or hybrid)
Design parity checks beyond naive pixel diffs
Runtime evidence pipelines (screenshots, DOM snapshots, interaction traces) & how you make them reliable
PR review workflows that connect design intent evidence code change
Multi-step flows (login/onboarding/payment) & how you verify states match intent
Tooling that links artifacts back to a requirement, test step, or code path
Pitch decks are not allowed. We want to see your work in progress, no matter how messy.

Please note: capacity is limited, so we'll prioritize folks who can present a demo.

agenda
6:00 PM - Doors open

7:00 PM - Opening remarks

7:30 PM- Demos

8:00 PM - Networking & pizzas

9:00 PM - Doors Close
 
 
 
 
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