Community Catchup #14
Model routing, token budgets, Auckland meetup lessons, enterprise AI case studies, For Good research workflows, second-brain patterns, and local AI strategy.
Every week, our community jumps on Zoom to share what they're building, discuss AI trends, and support each other. Here are the summaries.
Register for the next catchupModel routing, token budgets, Auckland meetup lessons, enterprise AI case studies, For Good research workflows, second-brain patterns, and local AI strategy.
Claude in Slack, adversarial review loops, Adrian's ten-minute data warehouse, Claire's OP Spot build, AI safety debates, and Impact Labs planning.
Chris Barlow's Fable distributed proof project, unused-token research ideas, goals vs skills, Klaus's four-day WebGL game, and sovereign AI discussions.
Strategic model use, Jason's 36-hour website rebuild, commercial readiness scanning, Claire's app sprint, and the economics of agentic engineering.
Model drift, token economics, the NZ skills repository, Jason's Ballad learning platform, data warehouse experiments, and a deep conversation about AI adoption and trust.
Opus 4.8, dynamic workflows, TheColab Skills Explorer live build, open data skills, AI coding quality, token economics, and team context standards.
Wellington meetup planning, AI education and token access, local models versus frontier models, Yadwinder's Nimble QA platform, and the social impact of AI adoption.
AI coding workflows, context management, Jake joining Anthropic, Adrian's data warehouse automation demo, and Adam's Claude Agents SDK triage system.
Claude Agent SDK and managed agents, secure citizen-developer platforms, agent evals, PDF processing, grocery automation, and legacy data modeling.
GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.7 reactions, rising inference costs, agent sprawl and operations, plus demos from Peeyoosh, Claire, William, and Adrian.
Agent harnesses, model cost discipline, Figma-to-web prototyping, data engineering agents, and practical tactics for keeping AI workflows reliable and affordable.
Auckland meetup recap, Anthropic partnership update, major AI news roundup, and brilliant show-and-tells from Jake, an events coordination app, and Claire's multi-role agent system.
WhatsApp group nearing 200 members, April 8th meetup planning, AI governance discussions, and impressive show-and-tells from Dave and Klaus.