Imagen Dev Meetup

Join us for an evening of live coding, honest career stories and AI agents running in production, hosted by Imagen AI! 🎊 About us: Imagen is developing disruptive technology for the professional photo editing market. We use the past editing history of each of our Imageners (clients) to create a personalized AI profile. That profile lets photographers optimize their workflow, cut down on painstaking editing work, and keep their unique editing style. Wedding, event and portrait photographers around the world use it to get back hours of their time. At this Meetup the people behind the product take the stage. React Runs Your Terminal: Let’s Build One Live Tal Moskovich, Senior Full Stack Engineer at Imagen AI Claude Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenAI Codex CLI, Prisma, Gatsby. What do they all have in common? They're React apps - just not in your browser. Ink is a React renderer that outputs to the terminal instead of the DOM, using the same Yoga flexbox engine as React Native, with full support for hooks and context. In this live coding session, we'll start from an empty index.tsx and build "Troll Code": a working AI-powered CLI, live! Compose terminal layouts with React components and Flexbox Manage streaming responses with useState and useEffect Handle keyboard navigation and real user input Push the renderer from ~30fps to optimized 60+ If you already know React, you're already most of the way to building your own dev tool, AI assistant, or interactive CLI. Starting Over: Are Our Boundaries Really Technical? Meirav Grimberg, Backend Engineer at Imagen AI As developers, are our boundaries really set by our technical knowledge? After four years deep in low-level development, I made the jump to backend and found myself starting over. In this talk, I'll share what that shift actually felt like: the fear of being "the junior" again, the skills that carried over in surprising ways, and the things that were completely new. Along the way, it changed how I think about career