Cape Town MS Developer User Group (@CPTMSDUG)

Accso is in Suite 302 in the Clock Tower building. Nearest parking is in the Clock Tower parking.

This event is 17:30 for 18:00. The session content will start promptly at 18:05 PM. Attendees are welcome to arrive earlier for networking and snacks!

Agenda

Community Intro and Welcoming

18:00 - Community Intro and Welcoming

18:05 - Beyond the Algorithm: How AI Enhances Human Creativity

I’ll be speaking on AI capability and creativity, showing how creativity and AI can work hand-in-hand to build innovative ideas, products, and applications. During the session, I’ll provide a short introduction to how embracing AI can enhance creativity, followed by a demo of a web app I built called Smart Trendz.

Smart Trendz is a free, open-source AI trends aggregator that helps AI enthusiasts, developers, and engineers stay up-to-date with the latest AI news and trends. It provides personalized summaries, highlights relevant points to your interests, and allows for easy sharing. The app is built using FastAPI and Python on the backend, with a modern HTML/CSS/JavaScript frontend, and is hosted on Hugging Face Spaces.

The demo will show how one can generate customized AI trend reports, keep track of developments relevant to their work, and explore emerging trends in a simple, beautiful interface.

Looking forward to sharing this with the community and showing how AI can boost both creativity and capability!

Speaker: Warrick Sabatta
AI Engineer at Dixona.

19:05 - Programming with Agents Without It Going Off in Weird Directions

Let's explore how to work effectively with AI coding agents like Copilot. So they stay on track, even across sessions, multiple contributors, and complex projects. We’ll discuss and demonstrate practical strategies for guiding agents, avoiding unwanted outcomes, and ensuring consistent, high-quality results, ending with a live demo that puts these ideas into action.

Speaker: Neil Thompson
Managing consultant at Accso

20:30 - Closing and SWAGS exchange

The annual CPTMSDUG Games evening!!

Watch this space for the games and also the prizes for us to end the year with some fun!!