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Hacker Dojo

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Mountain View, CA, US

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About us

This is a location for Startups, Events, Lectures, Hackathons, DevHouses, tinkering, brainstorming, co-working, and more! We have events occurring on a daily basis @hackerdojo.org

Upcoming events

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Startupa2z Founders Pitch & Mix
Tue, Aug 25 · 5:30 PM PDT
Hacker Dojo, 855 Maude Ave, Mountain View, CA, US
Join StartupA2Z for an engaging community event bringing together Bay Area founders, entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, and startup operators. The event is designed to create meaningful connections, encourage practical knowledge-sharing, and help participants exchange ideas, challenges, experiences, and opportunities in a welcoming environment.

Attendees can expect thoughtful conversations, valuable networking, and opportunities to meet potential collaborators, advisors, customers, and other members of the startup ecosystem.

Whether you are developing an idea, building a company, investing in startups, or supporting entrepreneurs, you will leave with new relationships, practical insights, and greater access to the Bay Area startup community.

Agenda

5:00 PM Networking

5:30 PM Welcome and introduction by Satish

5:40 PM Part 1: Startup Fundamentals

6:00 PM Part 2: Founder Pitches

6:30 PM Part 3: Audience Pitches

7:00 PM Closing remarks by Satish

7:15 PM Post-session networking
Learn more: https://startupa2z.org/
26 attendees
pAIthon MeetUp
Tue, Aug 25 · 6:30 PM PDT
Hacker Dojo, 855 Maude Ave, Mountain View, CA, US
We build things. Usually in Python. Often with AI assistance.
Come join the discussion! This interactive and inclusive event welcomes individuals from diverse backgrounds to learn from one another.

Each week the group will choose to dive into topics related to Python software development often using AI tools. All questions and topics are welcome and we often digress into interesting off-topic discussions.

Between meetings, come chat about your Python and other questions in the Python channel in the Hacker Dojo Discord https://discord.gg/qz3v4ggQdP

You can see topics we've covered at previous meetings here: https://petertheobald.github.io/HackerDojoPythonGroup/

See you there!

ALL ARE WELCOME TO THE DOJO
5 attendees
A Practitioner's Guide to AI-Assisted Coding
Wed, Aug 26 · 6:00 PM PDT
Hacker Dojo, 855 Maude Ave, Mountain View, CA, US
You shipped it in a weekend.
Can you fix it at 3 AM when you get a customer call?

AI writes the code now. The hard part is trusting what you can't fully read —
whether you're an engineer signing off on 2,000 lines a day, a founder
whose whole product was written by something else, or a student wondering how
much you're learning.

The mindset shift we need:
From being an AI-assisted Developer-> To AI-assisted System Architect

A practitioner's talk on building the harness: how to run agents hard without
ending up with a system you can't defend. A little bit of spec-driven development and context engineering -- what's the best tool for you ?

- If you never had to stop it, that's not a clean run — it's one nobody watched.
- Asking nicely doesn't always work. Constraints hold only when something checks them.
- Go only as fast as you can see. How big a task, how often you look, when to
stop trying — all the same call.
- Your corrections are an asset. The same fix you make by hand every other week should
become something the agent stops needing.
- What not to hand over. Speed is worthless if you're moving in the wrong
direction, and delegating the work you haven't learned yet has a cost that
shows up later.

Not a Cursor or Claude Code tutorial . Not a 10x promise. Bring the failure you couldn't explain and everyone will try to find a way to solve it.
37 attendees
Modern C++ Meetup
Wed, Aug 26 · 7:00 PM PDT
Hacker Dojo, 855 Maude Ave, Mountain View, CA, US
Schedule & Example code will be posted here: https://gitlab.com/hd-cpp-meetup

This event is usually hosted in the classroom, there may be simultaneous events in the main room.

Meetup for Modern C++. Introduce yourself and discuss weekly C++ topics. We have live coding, discussion topics, or presentations depending on the week.

For the subset of events with live coding, example code from live coding sessions will made available on GitLab after the meetup ends at this repo: https://gitlab.com/hd-cpp-meetup
3 attendees

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