Time flies when you’re having fun — it’s been over half a year since Chris Pecaut, Jensen Loke, and I (and later our mysterious LinkedIn-less benefactor Ian Choo) started the Agentic Builders Collective! And now we’re done with our 6th meetup.
(Fun fact: We were a “Claude Code Club” before an official one popped up, and we pivoted to a cooler name with so many more syllables. (We could have settled for Agentic Builders Club, but Collective has two entire more syllables!!))
It’s been especially great seeing former students show up at events after many years! This time round, we had (Dr!) Gaurav Manek share his personal claw guidelines, and I got to tell folks this dude used to gleefully demo the, eh, very educational capabilities of Wireshark during Infocomm Club CCA time.
(Pictured: With ex-students Gaurav and Qiao Han — he with an all-time best/worst GitHub username — at Google, at our 5th meetup, which I forgot to post about, because I am too busy trying to use up all my tokens to post OK)
We also now have a proper website, at agenticbuilders.sg, vibe-designed with Claude and Codex. To get a terminal-like look and feel, I had to regularly yell at the agents to please stop using 1.125rem and 0.875rem, no, please stop, you introduced another font size again, you stupid bot, I have it in bold in CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md, aghhhh.
It’s an Astro site, with data rendered from Markdown and YAML files, architected in a unique manner: If community members want, they can add themselves, and their projects, to it by submitting pull requests on GitHub at our hilariously long URL github.com/agentic-builders-collective/agentic-builders-collective.github.io.
The secret, though, is that you don’t need to understand Astro — we left instructions and breadcrumbs for your favourite coding agent to help you out! (Thanks Alex Teo for the assist too!)
So, all you need to do is fork the repo*, point your agent at it, and demand that it add you, your project, and/or your article to our community or showcase page. It’s like a puzzle game! That’s really kinda boring! And in which you barely do anything!!
(Not presentations for now; those are from actual in-person events; the next one is 23 May at AmChamSG! Register now! Thanks Hsien-Hsien Lei for having us!)
*Don’t know enough GitHub? I made a video. It has me trying to talk long enough that the agent finishes generating code.