Ship Better Code With AI
A community where developers practice coding with AI
- Hands-on practice
- Tool & prompt swaps
- Live-coding real projects
Leave every session with working code and fresh insights.
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The Problem We Solve
AI can supercharge development, but the tooling landscape is chaotic and changes weekly.
👉 AI Code Foundry turns solo trial-and-error into a shared discovery process - so you skip the dead ends and keep the breakthroughs.
The Weekly Live Build
Once a week we jump on a 60-minute Zoom call and tackle a real member project – no canned demos.
👉 You’ll see every prompt, tool swap, and code review in the open, learning how to guide AI from blank file to working feature.
The Online Community
Between live builds, everything lands in our community space: video archive, prompt snippets, quick-win screen-caps, and discussion threads.
👉 It’s both lab notebook and hangout – swap ideas, post questions, and revisit any session whenever you need a refresher.
Hi! I'm Thanos 👋
Over the past 25 years I’ve written software at every layer—from front‑end to firmware—while serving as CTO, VP Engineering, and hands‑on IC at companies like Uber, Included Health, and several lean startups.
Everywhere I worked I noticed the same theme: capable teams slowed down by dated practices and inertia.
Curiosity about smoother, saner ways of working led me to help teams ship clean, reliable code.
Now the ground is shifting again.
AI-powered tools are rewriting the way we build software, and the pace of change is dizzying.
My favorite tools have changed several times in the past few months.
The ways I use these tools are rapidly evolving.
I am becoming massively more productive, but I also feel there are probably even better ways that I'm missing.
That’s where the idea of the AI Code Foundry came in.
What if there was a place where we could all learn from each other?
1. Real-World Practice
Get hands-on each week as we tackle an actual repo, not toy examples.
2. Workflows That Work
Steal a growing library of proven prompts, extensions, and workflows.
3. Peers, Not Just Content
Bounce ideas in the community – code reviews, quick wins, and accountability.
Inside the 60-Minute Weekly Live Build
Here's the format we're starting with. True to agile, we'll adapt this as we learn.
1. Rapid-Fire Wins (~5 minutes)
We kick things off with quick, one-sentence victories from the past week – maybe a prompt that shaved hours off a task, a new extension discovered, or a stubborn bug finally squashed. These lightning shares pump energy into the call and surface bite-sized tactics you can try the same day.
2. Tool / Demo Spotlight (~10 minutes)
Next, a member or guest walks us through one AI-coding aid – an extension, CLI tool, or prompt pattern – showing exactly how they use it in real work. Live Q&A keeps the demo honest and practical.
3. Live Coding on a Volunteer Project (~40 minutes)
A brave volunteer shares their repo, and we co-craft prompts, iterate, and commit code together. Nothing is pre-scripted; mistakes and dead ends stay in because that’s where the real learning happens. You watch raw problem-solving and walk away with repeatable prompt flows and a Git diff you can study later.
4. Retro & Next Steps (last 5 minutes)
We close with a quick debrief: what worked, what flopped, and one concrete takeaway each attendee will test before the next session – seeding next week’s rapid-fire wins.
Can’t make it live? We'll record every session, and upload it to the Video Archive within 24 hours, so you can pause, rewind, and code along on your own schedule.
Come Code With Us
Sign up to receive the link for the next weekly Live Build and access to the community space where we share replays and prompts. It’s free, and you can step back whenever you like.
