AI Friday New Orleans

Friday evening, a porch in New Orleans, and one empty chair.

FridayOctober 2

5:30 in the evening
Venue TBD, New Orleans

Pull up a chair

Can’t make it? Come by the Slack.

A monthly meetup for people who use a computer all day and are curious what AI can actually do for the work they already have. Almost nobody here is a developer. Bring a question, or bring nothing.

Four people talking on the front porch of a New Orleans double shotgun house at dusk, with one empty wooden chair turned toward the steps.

What this is

Once a month a few dozen people get together for two hours and show each other what they've been making with AI.

Teachers, lawyers, nurses, restaurant managers, people who run a one-person business out of a spare room. Some have been at it for a year. Some opened ChatGPT for the first time last week and haven't told anybody.

Nobody presents from a stage. Somebody puts a laptop on the table and the rest of us lean in. Then we eat something and keep talking.

Between Fridays, everyone hangs around in Slack.

What people are making

Four things members brought to a recent Friday. None of them write code.

A round enamel table on the porch with a pitcher of iced tea, mismatched glasses, a bowl of satsumas and an open notebook.

  • A bot that does the first ten minutes of a client call

    Renée, family law, Mid-City

    It asks the same questions she always asks, writes the answers up, and has a file waiting before she picks up the phone.

  • Lesson plans that still sound like her

    Dominique, seventh-grade science, Algiers

    She fed it two years of her own worksheets. Now it drafts and she edits for ten minutes instead of ninety.

  • A schedule that stops texting people on their day off

    Tuan, a restaurant on Freret

    Twenty-two employees, everybody's availability, one group thread. It builds the week in about a minute.

  • Every grant deadline, out of one person's head

    Alice, a neighborhood nonprofit, Central City

    It reads the funder emails, pulls the dates, and tells three people on Monday what's due Friday.

What you'll leave with

One

Something you can use on Monday

Every Friday somebody shows a small trick that saves them an hour a week. You'll get at least one, written down, that works on your actual job.

Two

Three people who do what you do

We do introductions on purpose, out loud, at the start. You'll leave knowing who to text the next time you get stuck at 11pm.

Three

A straight answer about what this stuff can't do

Half of what you've read is oversold. We're honest about the parts that don't work yet, so you stop wondering if you're the problem.

A porch ceiling of beadboard painted pale haint blue, with a single warm bulb lit.

Come by anytime

The light stays on between meetups. Slack is where people post what they're working on, ask the question they'd feel silly asking out loud, and get an answer before lunch.

Join the Slack