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๐ŸŽ™ Join @DeepStationAI for "What's New in Codex from @OpenAI DevDay" featuring @DamianMontero, Senior AI Advocate at JM Family and Founder of FloridaJS! ๐Ÿ’ฅ Everyone is reading about what OpenAI announced at DevDay 2026, but almost nobody shows you how to actually use it. Damian demos OpenAI's newest developer tools live, right in front of the room: Codex in the cloud, the Decision API, Code Review, the Agent API with computer use, and MCP Events! ๐Ÿ’ก What you'll learn: ๐Ÿ”น What OpenAI announced at DevDay 2026, shown live ๐Ÿ”น How to use Codex in the cloud, Code Review and the Decision API in your own work ๐Ÿ”น Tips and tricks that accelerate everything you build with AI ๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker Spotlight: Damian Montero Damian Montero is Senior AI Advocate and Lead Developer for the AI Center of Excellence at JM Family. Damian founded FloridaJS, one of South Florida's largest developer meetup groups by members, and organizes South Florida's oldest developer group. For the last three years, Damian has worked as a teacher and AI advocate, and has presented at many events, conferences and meetups. In Damian's words: "Developer for more decades than AI thinks there are R's in the word Strawberry." ๐Ÿค– This is part of our AI Demo Night series. ๐Ÿ“… Date: Thursday, October 22, 2026 โฐ Time: 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM ET ๐Ÿ“ Location: The LAB Miami, Wynwood, Miami ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Register: luma.com/deepst-49cd Seats go fast for demo nights. Come see OpenAI's newest tools working live, and leave knowing how to use them! ๐ŸŒŸ ๐Ÿ™‡โ€โ™‚๏ธ Thank you to our venue sponsor, @thelabmiami!
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๐ŸŽ™ Join DeepStation for "AI Cybersecurity: Red Teaming SLMs Before You Ship" featuring Polina Moshenets, Founder at SichGate (formerly HackerOne)! ๐Ÿ’ฅ Everyone says to test your model before you ship, but almost nobody shows you what an attack actually looks like. Polina runs real attacks against a live Hugging Face model, right in front of the room. ๐Ÿ’ก What you'll learn: ๐Ÿ”น The attacks teams face in production, from prompt injection to refusal bypass ๐Ÿ”น Why a model that tests safe can get worse once it's compressed ๐Ÿ”น What to test for before your model ships ๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker Spotlight: Polina Moshenets Polina has a background spanning application security, AI and machine learning supply chain risk, red teaming, and healthtech and biometric security. Previously, Polina was a Threat Hunter at HackerOne. Polina's research, "Safety as a Secondary Objective," is a study of 924 adversarial interactions across six open-weight small language models and 21 attack categories. SichGate, which Polina founded, is a model integrity testing platform that stress-tests small language models for adversarial failures before they ship into regulated industries. In Polina's words: "I picked the unglamorous end of this problem on purpose." ๐Ÿค– This is part of our AI Demo Night series. ๐Ÿ“… Date: Thursday, October 22, 2026 โฐ Time: 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM ET ๐Ÿ“ Location: The LAB Miami, Wynwood, Miami ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Register: luma.com/deepst-49cd Seats go fast for demo nights. Come see what breaks a model before your users find out! ๐ŸŒŸ ๐Ÿ™‡โ€โ™‚๏ธ Thank you to our venue sponsor, The LAB Miami! I truly appreciated Polina's great questions during our previous AI Demo Night and thought she would make a great fit.
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๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Codex Community Miami is excited to announce "DevDay Exchange Community Hackathon" to support non-profits with DeepStation and The Miami Foundation on November 7th and 8th at The LAB Miami! ๐Ÿš€ โ˜„๏ธ Miami's first @OpenAI Hackathon will give FREE Codex and OpenAI API credits ($100 in Codex credits + $50 in OpenAI API credits per checked-in member) to over 50 teams building AI agents and tools for the non-profits that keep South Florida running! ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Register here (seats going fast!): luma.com/codexmiami ๐ŸŒด This is โ€œAgents for Goodโ€: teams take real problems from South Florida non-profits, like the forms nobody has time to process or the donor follow-up that never happens, and turn them into working AI agents and tools those organizations can actually use. ๐Ÿ† Awards: ๐Ÿฅ‡ 1st place: $1,000 in OpenAI API credits + 3 months of ChatGPT Pro ๐Ÿฅˆ 2nd place: $500 in OpenAI API credits + 3 months of ChatGPT Pro ๐Ÿฅ‰ 3rd place: $250 in OpenAI API credits + 3 months of ChatGPT Pro Organizer: ๐Ÿ”ธ DeepStation Title Partner: ๐Ÿ”ธ The Miami Foundation ๐Ÿ”ธ The LAB Miami ๐Ÿ”ธ Miami Dade College Acceptance Criteria (one of the following): ๐Ÿ”น Codex ๐Ÿ”น OpenAI API ๐Ÿ”น OpenAI Agents SDK ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿซ Mentors will be on the floor both days, and we're still looking for more sponsors, mentors and volunteers! The forms are in the first comment. ๐ŸŒž A huge thank you to the OpenAI team for helping make this big moment happen for Miami: @paw_lean, Rhiannon Payne, and Gabriel Chua! Weโ€™re so thrilled to be able to help so many non-profit organizations because of your support. ๐Ÿ™‡โ€โ™‚๏ธ Thank you to our title non-profit foundation partner, The Miami Foundation, which has given over $905M to the non-profits that need it most! Huge appreciation to Erica Mohan for championing this effort, and the entire team Iโ€™ve had the amazing fortune to work with: Jocelyn Noya Quintana, Kelley Kessell, Alejandra Rodriguez, and Caroline Miller. ๐Ÿ™ Thank you to The LAB Miami for hosting us! And of course, a massive thank you to our community, volunteers, mentors, and judges. Without all of your community support, none of this would be possible! Together, we will build Miami into a leading global AI & tech center! ๐Ÿ“… Date: Saturday, November 7 and Sunday, November 8, 2026 โฐ Time: 12 PM to 9 PM ET, each day ๐Ÿ“ Location: The LAB Miami, Wynwood, Miami ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Register here (seats going fast!): luma.com/codexmiami Register today and come build for South Florida's non-profits! ๐ŸŒŸ #Codex #Hackathon #AgentsForGood #DeepStation #Miami #MiamiTech #BuildMiami @OpenAIDevs
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๐ŸŽ™๏ธ DeepStation Greece in Athens is excited to share the post-event summary and photos from last week on a journey from idea to NeurIPS paper, and how the paper led to an independent AI research lab! ๐Ÿ”ฌ Building and Scaling an Independent AI Research Lab: Panos Michelakis (Co-Founder and Lead Researcher, Synkrasis Labs) traced it back to an event in Athens, where he and his friend Giannis started talking through an idea they kept building on the side, beyond their day jobs. That idea became a paper accepted at NeurIPS, which they presented at the poster session in San Diego, and the side project became Synkrasis Labs, now about fifteen people strong. He didn't skip the hard part either: "We asked professors at NTUA. Most said no. We rewrote the framing four times." Key Takeaways: ๐Ÿ”น Research didn't need an institution: two friends grew into a team of about fifteen, doing it "for the fun and for the love of the game." ๐Ÿ”น In 2024, with tool calling brand new, they set out to measure the whole path an AI agent takes, not just its final answer. ๐Ÿ”น Getting the paper reviewed took longer than writing it, and help came from a stranger on LinkedIn. Thank you to Panos for sharing the whole journey, rejections included. A huge thank you to Pi55 for hosting DeepStation in their amazing space once again, and to Natalia Vavoula for hosting the night. Deep and special appreciation to the DeepStation Greece team who made it happen: Natalia Vavoula Apostolos Chardalias Christina Petsa ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท ๐ŸŒ‰ Athens, see you at the next one!
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๐ŸŽ™ Join DeepStation Greece in Athens for "From an Idea to NeurIPS: Building and Scaling an Independent AI Research Lab" featuring Panos Michelakis, Co-Founder and Lead Researcher at Synkrasis Labs! ๐Ÿ’ฅ Everyone says AI research lives inside the academic path. Almost nobody shows you how it gets built outside it, and Panos has: an idea that began when he was still a student became a NeurIPS paper, and the paper became a lab. ๐Ÿ’ก What you'll learn: ๐Ÿ”น How an independent AI research lab gets built outside academia. ๐Ÿ”น What it took to turn a student idea into a NeurIPS paper. ๐Ÿ”น Why how an agent gets there matters as much as whether it succeeds. ๐Ÿ‘ค Bio: Panos Michelakis is a forward deployed engineer, AI researcher, and founder of Synkrasis Labs, an independent research group studying how AI agents behave in real world environments. At Wonderful, he leads a technical team building AI systems for banking and insurance. He was previously a Palantir Foundry Data Engineer at D ONE. His work brings research and production together, with a focus on not only whether AI agents succeed, but how they get there. ๐Ÿ“… Date: Monday, September 28, 2026 โฐ Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM ๐Ÿ“ Location: Pi55, Plateon 55, Athens 104 35, Kerameikos ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Register here: luma.com/deepst-0bgz ๐Ÿ™ Thank you to Pi55 for opening their doors to our community once again, and to the DeepStation Greece team making it all happen: ๐Ÿ”น Natalia Vavoula ๐Ÿ”น Apostolos Chardalias Athens, this one is free and seats are limited. See you at Pi55! ๐Ÿš€
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๐ŸŽ™๏ธ DeepStation is excited to share the post-event summary and photos from AI Demo Night at the AI Center at Miami Dade College, three live demos in one evening from OpenRouter, DreamForge, and Hugging Face! ๐Ÿงญ Any model, any agent, a live tour of OpenRouter: Carlos Arevalo (Product Designer, OpenRouter, formerly Apollo GraphQL and Flow) gave a live tour of OpenRouter: hundreds of models behind one API key, rankings that show what developers are actually building with, and media benchmarks that put every model on the same tricky prompt so quality, price, and speed sit side by side. Then guardrails that set the rules for spend, models, and providers, and Ori Harness launching Claude Code and Codex on any model with a single command. ๐ŸŽฎ DreamForge, a playable game that did not exist when the room walked in: John Krajewski (Cofounder, CEO & CTO, DreamForge, formerly Electronic Arts) and Amar Shivdasani (Cofounder, COO & CFO, DreamForge, formerly Deloitte) introduced Forge, the AI that builds a game with you. One photo of the AI Center, Grant as the director, Sergey Brin as a visiting billionaire, a rogue AI called Aura, and the game that loaded was Ghost in the Deep, set in a 3D version of this room. ๐Ÿค— Hugging Face, from a Jupyter notebook to production without the hand waving: Muntaser Syed (Lead GenAI Engineer, Insight Global, formerly NVIDIA) ran the whole pipeline live from a sixteen minute Colab notebook: DistilBERT fine tuned with LoRA, exported through ONNX, quantized to int8, two candidates at the release gate, one promoted and one blocked. On how models go rogue: "there's a human decision that either places or takes away the safeguards." Key Takeaways: ๐Ÿ”น Model choice proved swappable, not a commitment. ๐Ÿ”น Making a game took a conversation and a photo of the room. ๐Ÿ”น A release is a gate, and a person choosing to leave it in. Thank you to Carlos, John, Amar, and Muntaser for building live. Thank you to the AI Center at Miami Dade College for hosting our community. Special appreciation to Arewa Ojelade and Joel Sola, who kept every part of the night turning. ๐ŸŒ‰ Miami keeps showing up for this, and we keep building it for you.
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๐ŸŽ™ Join DeepStation for AI Demo Night! Third spotlight: "Any Model, Any Agent: A Live Tour of OpenRouter" featuring Carlos Arevalo, Product Designer at OpenRouter (formerly Apollo GraphQL & Flow). ๐Ÿ’ฅ Hundreds of AI models, one account, and the coding agent you already use. Almost nobody knows where their model spend actually goes. Carlos shows you, down to a single request, live. ๐Ÿ”ธ The Demo A live tour of OpenRouter: finding the right model in a multimodal catalog from leading labs and providers, rankings that reveal what developers are actually building with, and media benchmarks that test models on the same tricky prompts so you can compare quality, price, and speed side by side. Then into chat to try those models live with a custom prompt. You'll also see guardrails that set the rules for spending, models, and providers, solo or as a team, and how those rules follow you into Ori, a suite of tools for AI agents, where Ori Harness launches Claude Code, Codex, and more with a single command. ๐Ÿ’ก What you'll learn: ๐Ÿ”น How to pick a model by quality, price, and speed instead of habit ๐Ÿ”น How guardrails control spend, models, and providers for a solo builder or a team ๐Ÿ”น How to launch Claude Code, Codex, and other agents with one command through Ori Harness ๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker Spotlight: Carlos Arevalo Carlos is a Product Designer at OpenRouter, where developers access hundreds of AI models with one API key; his work spans the platform, from multimodal experiences to enterprise products and terminal-based agents. He started out studying architecture at Miami Dade College and has spent more than ten years in design since: as a Staff Product Designer at Apollo GraphQL he shaped tools for companies using GraphQL at scale, and as a Lead Product Designer at Flow he built AI systems and operator tools for managing buildings around the world. Originally from Barranquilla, Colombia, and a longtime Miami local, he loves the beach, exploring new places, video games, and Lord of the Rings lore. ๐Ÿค– This is part of our AI Demo Night series: OpenRouter, Hugging Face, and DreamForge, one evening, three live demos. Muntaser Syed (Hugging Face) and the cofounders of DreamForge take the stage with demos of their own. ๐Ÿ“… Date: Thursday, September 17, 2026 โฐ Time: 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM ET ๐Ÿ“ Location: AI Center, Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, Miami ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Register here: luma.com/uuapbq7w Seats go fast for demo nights. Bring the model question you've been arguing about! ๐ŸŒŸ Thank you to the AI Center at Miami Dade College for hosting our community.
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๐ŸŽ™ Join DeepStation for AI Demo Night! Second spotlight: "Bringing the Heat: Supercharging Your ML Pipelines with HuggingFace" featuring Muntaser Syed, Lead GenAI Engineer at Insight Global (formerly NVIDIA) and hosted at Miami Dade College! ๐Ÿ’ฅ The Hugging Face Hub made foundation models easy to reach. Almost nobody shows you the road from a Jupyter notebook to a production deployment. Muntaser walks it, live. ๐Ÿ”ธ The Demo A deep look at the Hugging Face ecosystem: end-to-end ML workflows that scale from constrained edge devices to multi-GPU clusters, using the full stack (accelerate, peft, and optimum) for parameter-efficient fine-tuning, strict evaluation metrics, and faster inference. Whether you run massive cloud pipelines or ship quantized models to the edge, you leave with a framework for treating AI as robust, scalable engineering rather than an API call. ๐Ÿ’ก What you'll learn: ๐Ÿ”น Parameter-efficient fine-tuning with accelerate, peft, and optimum ๐Ÿ”น Evaluation metrics strict enough to trust before you ship ๐Ÿ”น Inference that scales from edge devices to multi-GPU clusters ๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker Spotlight: Muntaser Syed Muntaser is Lead GenAI Engineer at Insight Global and a former Technical Lead in AI at NVIDIA. A computer engineering PhD researcher, he builds AI, robotics, and large-scale ML systems, with deployment experience across banking, DevOps, and multi-agent systems. He is a researcher, practitioner, and developer working in ML and AI across industry and academia, and no stranger to the DeepStation stage: he brought MCP best practices in January and explainable AI in March. ๐Ÿค– This is part of our AI Demo Night series: OpenRouter, Hugging Face, and DreamForge, one evening, three live demos. Carlos Arevalo (OpenRouter) and the cofounders of DreamForge take the stage with demos of their own. ๐Ÿ“… Date: Thursday, September 17, 2026 โฐ Time: 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM ET ๐Ÿ“ Location: AI Center, Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, Miami ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Register here: luma.com/uuapbq7w Seats go fast for demo nights. Bring the model you've been meaning to ship! Thank you to the AI Center at Miami Dade College for hosting our community.
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๐ŸŽ™ Join DeepStation for AI Demo Night! First spotlight: "DreamForge: Personalized AI Video Games" featuring cofounders John Krajewski (formerly Electronic Arts) and Amar Shivdasani (formerly Deloitte). ๐Ÿ’ฅ Anyone can prompt an AI for a story. Can it turn the people in the room into the cast of a playable 3D adventure before the night is over? That is the DreamForge demo. ๐Ÿ”ธ The Demo DreamForge is an AI video game generator and gaming platform for personalized story adventure games. John and Amar will build a custom game with the audience, live: you brainstorm the topics, you become the characters, and you watch generative AI produce assets across many media types, assembled into one game you can actually play. ๐Ÿ’ก What you'll learn: ๐Ÿ”น How generated assets across media types become one coherent playable game ๐Ÿ”น What separates a shippable AI experience from an impressive demo ๐Ÿ”น Where AI gaming is heading next, from the people building it ๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker Spotlight: John Krajewski John is a veteran game developer and founder with a lifelong passion for world-building. He began his career at Electronic Arts and Midway Games on titles like Batman: Dark Knight and Lord of the Rings, then founded Strange Loop Games solo and created Eco, which passed $20 million in sales and 800,000 paid downloads while the studio grew to 30+ people without outside funding. At DreamForge he leads product and technology, with a deep belief in player-driven creativity. ๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker Spotlight: Amar Shivdasani Amar is an entrepreneurial operator across finance, strategy, and growth. He started at Deloitte Consulting advising Fortune 500 companies on digital transformation, then joined WayTrade as its second employee and Chief Strategy Officer, helping scale it from pre-revenue to more than $50 million in annual recurring revenue in under a year. With an MBA from UC Berkeley and a home in Miami Beach, he leads DreamForge's business strategy, partnerships, and go-to-market. ๐Ÿค– This is part of our AI Demo Night series: OpenRouter, Hugging Face, and DreamForge, one evening, three live demos. OpenRouter and Hugging Face take the stage with demos of their own. ๐Ÿ“… Date: Thursday, September 17, 2026 โฐ Time: 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM ET ๐Ÿ“ Location: AI Center, Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, Miami ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Register here: luma.com/uuapbq7w Seats go fast for demo nights. Come play a game that did not exist when you walked in! ๐ŸŒŸ Thank you to the AI Center at Miami Dade College for hosting our community.
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๐ŸŽ™๏ธ DeepStation Greece is excited to share the post-event summary and photos from our Athens meetup, โ€œAI Smart Agriculture and Business Growthโ€ ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท ๐Ÿค– Building Neuroagro with ML and Agentic AI Pavlos Dimadis, Founder & CTO of Neuroagro4.0, presented a practical look at how AI can move from data to real-world agricultural decisions and actions. His core message was clear: AI in agriculture matters only when farmers can trust it and use it in the field. He explored: โ€ข The challenges facing modern agriculture, from rising input costs to climate instability and yield pressure โ€ข Neuroagroโ€™s closed-loop approach: Measure โ†’ Predict โ†’ Recommend โ†’ Act โ€ข How IoT sensors, agronomic models, ML, and automation work together โ€ข Why messy, seasonal, and fragmented farm data makes real-world deployment challenging โ€ข How agentic AI can help small teams scale sales, customer support, reporting, and operations โ€ข The role of agentic ERP systems in coordinating inventory, installations, payments, and customer workflows โ€ข How Chatagro can provide farmers with explanations, guidance, and support while escalating complex issues to human agronomists ๐Ÿ’ก Key takeaways: ๐Ÿ”น Applied AI requires more than powerful modelsโ€”it needs reliable hardware, quality data, agronomic expertise, simple UX, and clear ROI. ๐Ÿ”น AI becomes truly valuable when it connects sensors, decisions, and actions in a complete operational loop. ๐Ÿ”น Agentic systems can multiply the capacity of small teams without replacing human expertise. ๐Ÿ”น Trust is essential: farmers need to understand not only what action is recommended, but also why. A special thank you to ฯ€55 for sponsoring the venue and supporting DeepStation Athens, and to all the volunteers who helped make the event possible. ๐Ÿ™Œ Thank you to everyone who joined us. Weโ€™re looking forward to sharing more about our next event soon! ๐ŸŽฏ
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๐ŸŽ™ Join DeepStation Greece in Athens for "AI Smart Agriculture and Business Growth" featuring Pavlos Dimadis, Founder & CTO of Neuroagro4.0! ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Register here: luma.com/deepst-zvnh ๐Ÿ’ฅ Anyone can use AI in a demo. Building one that survives a real growing season, and a real business on top of it, is another job entirely. That's the job Pavlos does. ๐Ÿ”ธ The Real Challenge Agriculture is one of the hardest places machine learning has ever been asked to work. The data is messy, the conditions never repeat, and a model that shines in a demo still has to earn its keep in a field. ๐Ÿ”ธ What You'll See Both halves of one problem, walked end to end: how ML-Agro models actually get built, and how agentic business models turn them into a company instead of a paper. ๐Ÿ”ธ Why It Matters Agentic systems are rewriting what a small team can build and operate, and the industries software was slowest to reach stand to gain the most. Agriculture is at the front of that line. ๐Ÿ’ก What you'll learn: ๐Ÿ”น How ML models earn their keep on real farms. ๐Ÿ”น Where agentic systems multiply what a small team can ship. ๐Ÿ”น What it takes to build a company around applied AI. ๐Ÿ‘ค Bio: Pavlos Dimadis is the Founder and CTO of Neuroagro4.0. He was previously a Research Associate at DLR Dresden and an intern at Siemens, and holds an MEng and an MSc. ๐Ÿ“… Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026 โฐ Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM ๐Ÿ“ Location: Pi55, Plateon 55, Athens 104 35, Kerameikos ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Register here: luma.com/deepst-zvnh ๐Ÿ™ Thank you to Pi55 for opening their doors to our community once again, and to the DeepStation Greece team making it all happen: ๐Ÿ”น Natalia Vavoula ๐Ÿ”น Apostolos C. ๐Ÿ”น Christina Petsa Athens, this one is free and seats are limited. Come see what AI looks like when it leaves the notebook and goes to work in a field. See you at Pi55! ๐Ÿš€
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๐ŸŽ™๏ธ DeepStation and Miami Tech Works are excited to announce SkillBloomAI, an AI workforce development platform of professionally curated AI tools, verified online certificates, and localized courses to meet the needs of people everywhere, starting with South Florida! ๐Ÿšจ Grant Kurz, Founder & CEO of DeepStation:ย  โ€The global community is facing a pivotal moment in this wave of AI. As the most interesting moment of human history is upon us, people globally must become AI literate and learn the AI tools of the future. SkillBloom helps: ๐Ÿ”น Identify the AI tools that are most pressing for career advancement ๐Ÿ”น Find credible sources of AI education amongst the noise ๐Ÿ”น Certify folks to represent being ready for the new wave of industry ๐Ÿค Doing so alone is a challenging task, so we are working with our global community and partners to continuously empower the platform with leading AI tools, certificate programs, and courses to support folks in the most pressing of time. As a leading workforce development organization for South Florida, Miami Tech Works is the perfect partner on this initiative.โ€ ๐Ÿ’ฅ Jon Q. Adell, MBA, Grant Project Manager of Miami Tech Works: โ€œEvery employer we work with is asking the same question: can your candidates use AI tools? This resource helps South Florida answer yes. It gives residents a starting point to build real, job-relevant skills without needing a degree or a subscription to get started.โ€ Want to recommend AI tools or certificate programs? Simply sign in and propose a new tool using our dedicated form.ย  What AI tools and certificate programs should we add next, and what else do people need to succeed in this AI wave?
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๐ŸŽ™๏ธ DeepStation Academy is thrilled to share that our โ€œVibe Code Course: Boost Productivity with Apps, Skills, and MCPโ€ successfully concluded with over 20 cohort alumni developing capstone projects and receiving certificates! Over 4 weekends, we taught each student how to: ๐Ÿ”น Build their own application using a modern tech stack with AI coding assistants ๐Ÿ”น Connect AI coding assistants to the tools they use every day such as Google Drive and Notion ๐Ÿ”น Connect special MCP servers to enhance vibe coding productivity ๐Ÿ”น Develop automations easily with an AI technique called skills ๐Ÿ”น Gain visibility for their websites and apps with AI SEO ๐Ÿ”น Assign lead agents and subagents to tasks for project management During every course, there is always a special moment where I learn something new from each student. It shows how we are all navigating this most interesting moment of human history, together.ย  One of the best moments was how learner after learner raised their hand to share their final capstone project. It was amazing to see a few people who had no coding experience create applications that their teams are now using internally at their jobs and in their careers.ย  Thank you to our co-instructors who helped me teach, and without a doubt this would not have been possible without: ๐Ÿ”ธ Gabe Klein, Member of Technical Staff at DeepStation ๐Ÿ”ธ Katherine Burge, AI Enablement at Workday and formerly Google ๐Ÿ”ธ Micah Berkley, our AI & marketing guest instructor for week 3 And of course, thank you to all of our students of the Vibe Code Course, who powered through each Saturday to gain hands-on experience! Weโ€™re proud to call you alumni ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐ŸŽ“ We're excited to announce our next wave of courses soon!
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Content is becoming easier to create and harder to make memorable. ๐ŸŽฏ At our recent Vibe Marketing event, @Mariana Lara shared what creativity looks like when AI becomes part of the process. As the founder of BOUND and AiLand, Mariana uses AI to explore and execute ideas faster. But the technology doesnโ€™t decide what is worth creating. Curiosity, taste, and creative direction still shape the work. That distinction matters. As more brands gain access to the same tools, access itself stops being an advantage. The real advantage becomes knowing what your brand believes, how it should feel, and which stories are worth telling. ๐Ÿ’ก AI can accelerate execution. It cannot create a meaningful point of view on your behalf. Thank you, Mariana, for reminding our community that the future of creativity still needs human direction. ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿš€ #VibeMarketing
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๐ŸŽ™๏ธ OpenAI Build Week was a dream! We had a packed room full of builders, developers, professionals, students, and enthusiasts who all had one thing in common: wanting to build the future using ChatGPT Codex. ๐Ÿค The DeepStation team walked through how to build an application using ChatGPT Codex and a modern tech stack, whether technical or not at The LAB Miami!ย  ๐Ÿ“ As Andrej Karpathy said, the hottest new programming language is English. So If you can speak any native langauge, you can now code and build applications that solve real problems.ย  ๐Ÿ’ก I believe everyone today is a junior developer, whether they know it or not. We shared the high level concepts underpinning modern applications, from HTML and CSS to NextJS, APIs, and GitHub.ย  Afterwards, we had over 150 people in the room following along to build their own linktree app or their own projects using: - ChatGPT Codex - NextJS - TailwindCSS - PostgreSQL - GitHub - Vercel Best of all, it was amazing to see so much incredible energy together helping one another out and connecting further within the community. ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿค– Deep and special appreciation to our volunteers who went around the room to make sure folks were progressing with the application: - Gabe Klein - Katherine Burge - Oraida Rodriguez - Joel Sola - Gardy Dupiton - Jared Rivera For folks that missed it, stay tuned! Weโ€™re planning an online recording to help get you up to speed as well ๐Ÿซก
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Most people ask AI to start writing before theyโ€™ve figured out what they actually want to say. ๐Ÿค– @GrantKurz believes that approach leads to generic content. Before opening ChatGPT, get clear on four things: your message, your audience, your brand voice, and your goal. ๐ŸŽฏ Once you know those, prompting becomes much easier, and the content starts sounding like your business instead of every other AI-generated post online. The tool can help you write, but the direction still has to come from you. ๐Ÿ’ก
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