Abhishek Garg

@hireyai
@UofIllinois

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Developer: I built an AI agent that can replace an entire team!

Security Guy: Is it safe?

Finance Guy: How much does it cost?

Developer: Can we just appreciate the demo for five minutes?

Pretty much sums up the conversations I had around AI last week, as I got to judge hackathons and moderate a panel at @awscloud in San Francisco on Shipping Agents to Production.

Had a great discussion with @RocketRideAI, @tenki @snyksec, and @adalagent about the less glamorous but equally important side of AI: security, governance, reliability, and the cloud bill.

One takeaway from all these experiences is how quickly we're moving from "Look what AI can do!" to "Okay, but can we actually trust it to do that?"

Big thanks to AWS, the organizers, panelists, and all the builders who made it happen!

SF tech community keeps giving me more reasons to leave my apartment.

#AI #AIAgents #Hackathons #SanFrancisco

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How I walk into a room after hearing there are investors here 💸

#themask #jimcarrey #sfhalloween

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Had a great chat with Aria Shi from @adalagent at the @awscloud about how they're using their own AI agents to automate GTM workflows, from writing blogs and creating demo videos to scheduling content.

AdaL is not just a marketing tool. It's a coding agent that can build apps, automate custom workflows and even turn a codebase into demo videos.

Aria also shared how their small team achieved growth in just one month using their own agents!

They're looking to collaborate with startups, solo founders and content creators.

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Great time at @vercel Ship 2026! 🚀

Really cool seeing what’s next for AI development and how the way we build and ship software is evolving.

Even better connecting with founders, builders, and people pushing the boundaries of AI.

Thanks @vercel for bringing everyone together!

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Great time at @COLM_conf

One of my favorite parts of these conferences is meeting the founders behind the AI companies.

Had a great chat with the team @MartinaBeg @abaka_ai about how they’re helping AI labs build better models through high-quality training data.

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Had a great chat with James Douitsis @BuildOnSapien about a problem I hadn’t thought much about:

Robotics companies can have mountains of labeled data, but still not know which frames are actually good vs. bad.

Sapien is building a validation layer to help figure that out.

Thanks to @rachelwrr1118 and the @paiooncl team for bringing together such a great group of builders and operators 🤖

[Wu | HiRey.ai @Walterwu44739]

hirey has this since May?
since openclaw we support openclaw, and then codex everything.

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Great time at the SF Voice AI Meetup with @AssemblyAI

Met some really interesting people building in voice AI, chatted with the AssemblyAI team and a few VCs.

Got to see what people are actually building with voice beyond just assistants.

Thanks to the great host and dear friend @iHarnoorSingh

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Met @shonn_li, a @UWaterloo grad, building https://t.co/vniskemN6Q to help businesses accelerate growth with their own Al harnesses and memory layer.

After starting in consumer Al, he's now focused on B2B and is looking for FDE to join the team.

Fun conversation about the pivot, Al, and building from zero. If this sounds interesting, reach out to him 👇
https://t.co/sk8L8uBets

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Your first hackathon doesn’t need a perfect build. Start with a good idea.

Caught up with @iaviralbhardwaj to talk about building hackathon communities and what first-timers get wrong.

As someone from GTM, I’m taking this as permission to finally stop looking for a technical cofounder 😂

Checkout: https://t.co/C4BrhLePdn

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From Google’s self-driving project to Waymo.

Really interesting hearing @dmitri_dolgov co-CEO of @Waymo at @spc talk about the journey of building autonomous driving technology over more than a decade.

A good reminder that some of the technologies that feel inevitable today started as very uncertain bets.

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@adamstac Looking forward to next one ✊

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Great evening at @PlanetScale listening to @adamstac and @scottcjohnston on @changelog IRL.

Really interesting conversation on what building software looks like in the agent era and where AI is actually useful vs. where the hype gets ahead of reality.

Also got the shirt, so pretty successful evening 😄

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I think B2B could be the wedge into a lot of these consumer products. Insurance especially feels interesting as you can start by solving workflows for brokers/carriers, build the data + distribution layer, then move downstream to consumers.
wondering if you see B2B to consumer becoming a common playbook?

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@mirr_selena @AsideAI @hyojun_at @su_adeline_k It was pleasure meeting you as well! Enjoy the city :)

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Went to the first @AsideAI Meetup tonight.

Really cool seeing founder @hyojun_at and power users demo how they’re using AI agents to automate actual work, not just talk about what agents could do.

Great job @su_adeline_k on hosting the event and making it super fun.

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This founder from Brazil is building a computer for $1.

Not to compete with Apple.
Not to make kids consume more.
His goal: give more people the chance to build, learn, and create.

Met @claudIOolmedo_ in Silicon Valley and asked him why he’s doing it 👇