AI Tinkerers VIP Dinner — Building Software Factories

AI Tinkerers, Kiro, and B-Capital are hosting a 20-person VIP dinner in San Francisco on Wednesday, April 29, centered on building “software factories.” (sf.aitinkerers.org) The event is scheduled for 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Pacific time, and organizers say the exact location will be shared only after attendees are confirmed. (sf.aitinkerers.org) AI Tinkerers describes the dinner as a curated, seated gathering for technical leaders and practitioners who are already building agentic workflows and code-generation systems at scale. (sf.aitinkerers.org) In plain terms, a “software factory” means turning software work into a repeatable production line: a specification goes in, code is generated, tests run, and the system checks its own output before a human signs off. (sf.aitinkerers.org) The discussion agenda is built around three pieces of that pipeline: orchestration patterns for multiple agents, methods for verifying generated code, and how staff-level engineering roles change when teams supervise autonomous coding systems. (sf.aitinkerers.org) Organizers frame the shift as a move beyond “AI-assisted autocomplete” toward automated, spec-driven software production, where the constraint is no longer just the model but the engineering system around it. (sf.aitinkerers.org) The event page points to newer model releases, including Claude 4.7 and Gemini 3.1 Flash, as part of the reason teams are revisiting how much coding work can be delegated to agents. (sf.aitinkerers.org) AI Tinkerers’ San Francisco chapter has been mixing larger meetups with smaller sponsor-backed formats; its homepage lists this dinner as the next event and shows upcoming hackathons and engineering-focused sessions in May. (sf.aitinkerers.org) The VIP dinner format is intentionally narrow. A separate AI Tinkerers page describes these dinners as intimate gatherings for top builders and industry experts rather than open community meetups. (sf.aitinkerers.org) For now, the April 29 dinner looks less like a public conference and more like a closed-door working session for engineers trying to make generated code behave like a production system. (sf.aitinkerers.org)