Time together, on record

A full table this time. We spent the session working out what a Thimphu hackathon could look like: who it is for, how long it should run, and what would make people turn up on a weekend.

Tashi Norbu presented his project for keeping context and knowledge available when switching between coding agents such as Claude Code and OpenCode. Agents change; the project's memory should not. He left with a small gift from the group and his write-up is on the site: Persistent Memory Infrastructure for AI Agents.

Kelden walked through six classic artificial-life systems worth demoing live, from Conway's Game of Life onwards, and ran a small Particle Life model. We also put a question to a swarm of Kimi Claw agents and watched them argue about why AI took off after 2022. The notes are written up in Artificial life: topics to explore.

Small turnout, no agenda. Three of us on a bench with one laptop and a pot of tea, which is sometimes exactly the right size for a meetup.

A working session on the terrace: two laptops, a sketch on a tablet, and a website being pulled apart on screen.

Early spring, outdoors, teapot on the table. A relaxed conversation rather than a formal talk.

A smaller April session at a café in town. Exact date lost to the group chat, but the thumbs-up survived.

The first session. Six of us around one laptop on a terrace, tea in hand, hills behind. Mathew showcased his Ollama.cpp setup for running language models locally, and the idea of a regular meetup for people who build things stuck.