OpenMates Meetup Group

Who is this for?

Developers who use (or want to use) AI-powered tools as part of their software development workflow.

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What to bring?

• Your laptop 💻
• A willingness to share your workflow, demo your tools, and learn from others

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Description

AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Augment Code, and many others aren’t perfect—but they can dramatically speed up development and empower individual developers to build things that used to require a full team.

However, working with AI can be a mixed experience: some days it feels magical, other days you’re yelling at your AI assistant in frustration.

This meetup is all about sharing real-world workflows:

• What tools and setups have worked well for you?
• Where are you currently running into pain points?
• How can we use the right IDEs, extensions, MCPs, and workflows to get the most out of these tools?

Come ready to show, discuss, and learn so we can all become more effective at building with AI together.

From experimenting together with AI tools to build mini projects, all the way to orchestrating multi agents systems and creating extensive requirement files to work on complex projects with large code bases.

For who:
Do you have experience in software development, design or education? Uncomfortable with the idea of letting greedy profit-at-all-costs tech companies decide what AI tools we all use in the years to come? Want to participate in building an actual alternative? Then check out our monthly dev meetup.

About OpenMates:
OpenMates aims to become an open source alternative to ChatGPT, Claude, Manus, etc. - focused on the best user experience, fulfilling your tasks using a wide range of apps, privacy & encryption by default and compatibility with a wide range of AI models - making it also independent of specific companies. Currently in an early alpha stage online. The perfect time for you to join in on the development with your feedback & contributions.

Format:

• OpenMates Introduction
• New developments from last month
• Deep dive discussions into 2 of 6 possible sub topics
• “What to prioritize next?” Discussion
• What events would you like to see?