{"version":1,"type":"story","url":"https://digestai.news/story/simon-willison-hosts-agentic-engineering-meetup-on-14th-october","json":"https://digestai.news/story/simon-willison-hosts-agentic-engineering-meetup-on-14th-october.json","markdown":"https://digestai.news/story/simon-willison-hosts-agentic-engineering-meetup-on-14th-october.md","slug":"simon-willison-hosts-agentic-engineering-meetup-on-14th-october","headline":"Simon Willison hosts agentic engineering meetup on 14th October","summary":"Simon Willison announced an evening event in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October, co‑hosting with Jesse Vincent. The gathering is aimed at people building \"weird and interesting things\" with coding agents, offering an informal show‑and‑tell where participants can compare notes, share experiments, and discuss challenges that have not yet been made public.  The format is a single flowing conversation without required presentations, emphasizing early‑stage exploration rather than product pitches.\n\nWillison listed recent AI articles as context, including Claude Opus 5.5, GPT‑6 Sol, GPT‑6 Luna, a new price war, Jev’s System One (Decision Models) from 21st September 2026, and a piece on generating running routes with GPT‑6 Astra and ChatGPT Work from 12th September 2026.  The event is positioned as a chance to celebrate the weirdness of agentic AI and to learn from unfinished projects that lack an obvious market.","keyPoints":["Event scheduled for Wednesday 14th October in San Francisco, hosted by Simon Willison and Jesse Vincent","Focus on informal show‑and‑tell of coding‑agent experiments, no product pitches required","Participants encouraged to share unpublished, odd or unfinished agentic AI work"],"whyItMatters":"Provides a rare forum for early‑stage AI agent developers to exchange ideas, accelerating community learning and innovation.","category":{"slug":"agents","name":"Agents & Tools","url":"https://digestai.news/category/agents"},"entities":{"companies":[],"models":["Claude Opus 5.5","GPT-6 Sol","GPT-6 Luna","GPT-6 Astra","ChatGPT Work","System One"],"people":["Simon Willison","Jesse Vincent"]},"firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-23T02:53:19Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-23T02:53:19Z","sourceCount":1,"hasPrimarySource":false,"sources":[{"outlet":"Simon Willison","title":"SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering","url":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/23/bof-agentic-engineering","publishedAt":"2026-09-23T02:53:19Z","type":"newsletter","primary":false,"lead":true}],"sourceNotes":null,"discussions":[],"thread":null,"cite":{"text":"Digest AI, \"Simon Willison hosts agentic engineering meetup on 14th October\", 23 September 2026, https://digestai.news/story/simon-willison-hosts-agentic-engineering-meetup-on-14th-october","publisher":"Digest AI","title":"Simon Willison hosts agentic engineering meetup on 14th October","datePublished":"2026-09-23T02:53:19Z","url":"https://digestai.news/story/simon-willison-hosts-agentic-engineering-meetup-on-14th-october"},"generatedBy":"Written by Digest AI's editorial model from the linked sources; the sources are the record.","license":"Headlines, digests and key points are written by Digest AI and may be quoted with a link to the story page. Linked articles belong to their publishers. Terms: https://digestai.news/terms#reuse"}