netto.eth (in SF, then NYC)@alextnettoMay 19, 2026
Thread about the @AITinkerers meetup last night in SF around the theme of building "go to market" tools with AI.
The AI Tinkerers events are so, so good, because they really are 100% "show us what you've been building."
I said at the beginning of my talk that the AI tinkerers events remind me powerfully of being a self-taught programmer, arriving at graduate school surrounded by *very good* engineers, and realizing that the next few years would basically be an apprenticeship to learn the craft of full stack software development. (Really, really full stack: from designing hardware all the way up through new user interfaces that enabled applications that hadn't previously been possible.)
I mean, I did research and wrote papers, too. But mostly I sat next to great programmers and learned how they thought about what they were doing, what tools they used, and how they worked step-by-step on very ambitious projects.
Everything is new, right now! We're all figuring this stuff out together. Watching someone live demo, in Claude Code, a workflow they've figured out is amazing.
netto.eth (in SF, then NYC)@alextnettoLast night I went to the GTM Engineers event at @AItinkerers in SF.
5 founders showing how they are doing it. 5 very different approaches.
Here are the insights:
