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AI Tinkerers presents the Interfaces Hackathon with Claude, hosted in NYC with support from Anthropic and other community partners to be announced soon. 🎨⚙️🌆

This hackathon invites you to explore what’s possible at the interface layer now that tools like Claude make the hard parts easy. With so much compute, reasoning, and ideation power instantly available, the constraint isn’t the model anymore - it’s our imagination for how people use it.

We’re bringing together designers, engineers, and product-minded builders to experiment with UI patterns old and new: sliders, keypads, menus, timelines, pop-ups, cards, canvases, keyboards, windows, and layouts that break convention entirely. Work alongside Anthropic engineers, builders from the AI Tinkerers community, and a curated room of serious creators as we prototype the next wave of UI patterns for AI. No slide decks, no hand-waving. Bring your design instincts, your engineering skills, and ship something real. Your mission: build experiences that feel fresh, playful, and newly possible.

🎯 Hackathon Theme: Generative Interfaces × Claude

As AI becomes more capable, the bottleneck shifts from raw intelligence to how humans access it.

This weekend is about:

  • Trying UI ideas you’ve never had time to test
  • Using Claude to help you iterate, prototype, and ship
  • Reframing everyday tasks through unexpected UX
  • Interfaces that adapt with purpose
  • Tools where interaction is the innovation
  • Designing experiences that feel different, not just smarter
  • Asking “now that the AI is powerful, what should the screen look like?”

We’re not chasing enterprise use cases or grand societal impact.

We’re chasing novel experiences, thought-starters, and experiments that stretch the imagination for how humans touch intelligent systems.

If you’ve ever looked at a dropdown menu and thought “this is the last decade talking,” this is your playground.

Space is limited and curated — RSVP required.

Who is this for?

This hackathon is for builders who want to make software feel new again, builders who care about how things feel, not just how they run:

  • Full-stack engineers
  • Front-end and UX designers
  • Product thinkers & founders
  • Engineers with taste
  • AI Tinkerers who like weird interfaces, toy apps, and clever workflows

You should be able to code- but you don’t need to be an ML wizard.
This is fully in-person only.
No remote teams. No tourists. No spectators.

We admit 100–150 vetted participants.
Show us your GitHub, bring your skills, find your team on site.

Prizes

(with more to be announced)

1st: $2.5k in Anthropic credits

2nd: $1.5k in Anthropic credits

3rd: $1k in Anthropic credits

when

Saturday
February 21, 2026
9:00 am

LoCATION

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014

agenda

6:00 PM – Doors open

7:00 PM – Opening remarks

7:30 PM– Demos

8:00 PM – Networking & pizzas

9:00 PM – Doors Close

Speakers

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AI Interfaces Hackathon with Claude

February 21, 2026
9:00 am

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AI Tinkerers presents the Interfaces Hackathon with Claude, hosted in NYC with support from Anthropic and other community partners to be announced soon. 🎨⚙️🌆

This hackathon invites you to explore what’s possible at the interface layer now that tools like Claude make the hard parts easy. With so much compute, reasoning, and ideation power instantly available, the constraint isn’t the model anymore - it’s our imagination for how people use it.

We’re bringing together designers, engineers, and product-minded builders to experiment with UI patterns old and new: sliders, keypads, menus, timelines, pop-ups, cards, canvases, keyboards, windows, and layouts that break convention entirely. Work alongside Anthropic engineers, builders from the AI Tinkerers community, and a curated room of serious creators as we prototype the next wave of UI patterns for AI. No slide decks, no hand-waving. Bring your design instincts, your engineering skills, and ship something real. Your mission: build experiences that feel fresh, playful, and newly possible.

🎯 Hackathon Theme: Generative Interfaces × Claude

As AI becomes more capable, the bottleneck shifts from raw intelligence to how humans access it.

This weekend is about:

  • Trying UI ideas you’ve never had time to test
  • Using Claude to help you iterate, prototype, and ship
  • Reframing everyday tasks through unexpected UX
  • Interfaces that adapt with purpose
  • Tools where interaction is the innovation
  • Designing experiences that feel different, not just smarter
  • Asking “now that the AI is powerful, what should the screen look like?”

We’re not chasing enterprise use cases or grand societal impact.

We’re chasing novel experiences, thought-starters, and experiments that stretch the imagination for how humans touch intelligent systems.

If you’ve ever looked at a dropdown menu and thought “this is the last decade talking,” this is your playground.

Space is limited and curated — RSVP required.

Who is this for?

This hackathon is for builders who want to make software feel new again, builders who care about how things feel, not just how they run:

  • Full-stack engineers
  • Front-end and UX designers
  • Product thinkers & founders
  • Engineers with taste
  • AI Tinkerers who like weird interfaces, toy apps, and clever workflows

You should be able to code- but you don’t need to be an ML wizard.
This is fully in-person only.
No remote teams. No tourists. No spectators.

We admit 100–150 vetted participants.
Show us your GitHub, bring your skills, find your team on site.

Prizes

(with more to be announced)

1st: $2.5k in Anthropic credits

2nd: $1.5k in Anthropic credits

3rd: $1k in Anthropic credits

When

February 21, 2026
9:00 am

Where

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014
RSVP

Agenda

6:00 PM – Doors open

7:00 PM – Opening remarks

7:30 PM– Demos

8:00 PM – Networking & pizzas

9:00 PM – Doors Close

Speakers

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Sponsors

Proof of Full Vaccination Required

Betaworks requires all visitors to show proof of full vaccination to enter. No exceptions. Two ways that you can show proof:
  • Official vaccine card with at least 2 weeks having passed since the date of the last required dose (1 dose for J&J/AstraZeneca, 2 for Pfizer/Moderna)
  • An active digital pass such as the NY State Excelsior Pass or the CLEAR app

Feb

21

Public Event

In Person

AI Tinkerers:

AI Interfaces Hackathon with Claude

Register for Event
Register Now

AI Tinkerers presents the Interfaces Hackathon with Claude, hosted in NYC with support from Anthropic and other community partners to be announced soon. 🎨⚙️🌆

This hackathon invites you to explore what’s possible at the interface layer now that tools like Claude make the hard parts easy. With so much compute, reasoning, and ideation power instantly available, the constraint isn’t the model anymore - it’s our imagination for how people use it.

We’re bringing together designers, engineers, and product-minded builders to experiment with UI patterns old and new: sliders, keypads, menus, timelines, pop-ups, cards, canvases, keyboards, windows, and layouts that break convention entirely. Work alongside Anthropic engineers, builders from the AI Tinkerers community, and a curated room of serious creators as we prototype the next wave of UI patterns for AI. No slide decks, no hand-waving. Bring your design instincts, your engineering skills, and ship something real. Your mission: build experiences that feel fresh, playful, and newly possible.

🎯 Hackathon Theme: Generative Interfaces × Claude

As AI becomes more capable, the bottleneck shifts from raw intelligence to how humans access it.

This weekend is about:

  • Trying UI ideas you’ve never had time to test
  • Using Claude to help you iterate, prototype, and ship
  • Reframing everyday tasks through unexpected UX
  • Interfaces that adapt with purpose
  • Tools where interaction is the innovation
  • Designing experiences that feel different, not just smarter
  • Asking “now that the AI is powerful, what should the screen look like?”

We’re not chasing enterprise use cases or grand societal impact.

We’re chasing novel experiences, thought-starters, and experiments that stretch the imagination for how humans touch intelligent systems.

If you’ve ever looked at a dropdown menu and thought “this is the last decade talking,” this is your playground.

Space is limited and curated — RSVP required.

Who is this for?

This hackathon is for builders who want to make software feel new again, builders who care about how things feel, not just how they run:

  • Full-stack engineers
  • Front-end and UX designers
  • Product thinkers & founders
  • Engineers with taste
  • AI Tinkerers who like weird interfaces, toy apps, and clever workflows

You should be able to code- but you don’t need to be an ML wizard.
This is fully in-person only.
No remote teams. No tourists. No spectators.

We admit 100–150 vetted participants.
Show us your GitHub, bring your skills, find your team on site.

Prizes

(with more to be announced)

1st: $2.5k in Anthropic credits

2nd: $1.5k in Anthropic credits

3rd: $1k in Anthropic credits

when

Saturday
February 21, 2026
9:00 am

LoCATION

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014

agenda

6:00 PM – Doors open

7:00 PM – Opening remarks

7:30 PM– Demos

8:00 PM – Networking & pizzas

9:00 PM – Doors Close

Speakers

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Sponsors

2/21/2026

Betaworks

AI Interfaces Hackathon with Claude

Presented by

AI Tinkerers presents the Interfaces Hackathon with Claude, hosted in NYC with support from Anthropic and other community partners to be announced soon. 🎨⚙️🌆

This hackathon invites you to explore what’s possible at the interface layer now that tools like Claude make the hard parts easy. With so much compute, reasoning, and ideation power instantly available, the constraint isn’t the model anymore - it’s our imagination for how people use it.

We’re bringing together designers, engineers, and product-minded builders to experiment with UI patterns old and new: sliders, keypads, menus, timelines, pop-ups, cards, canvases, keyboards, windows, and layouts that break convention entirely. Work alongside Anthropic engineers, builders from the AI Tinkerers community, and a curated room of serious creators as we prototype the next wave of UI patterns for AI. No slide decks, no hand-waving. Bring your design instincts, your engineering skills, and ship something real. Your mission: build experiences that feel fresh, playful, and newly possible.

🎯 Hackathon Theme: Generative Interfaces × Claude

As AI becomes more capable, the bottleneck shifts from raw intelligence to how humans access it.

This weekend is about:

  • Trying UI ideas you’ve never had time to test
  • Using Claude to help you iterate, prototype, and ship
  • Reframing everyday tasks through unexpected UX
  • Interfaces that adapt with purpose
  • Tools where interaction is the innovation
  • Designing experiences that feel different, not just smarter
  • Asking “now that the AI is powerful, what should the screen look like?”

We’re not chasing enterprise use cases or grand societal impact.

We’re chasing novel experiences, thought-starters, and experiments that stretch the imagination for how humans touch intelligent systems.

If you’ve ever looked at a dropdown menu and thought “this is the last decade talking,” this is your playground.

Space is limited and curated — RSVP required.

Who is this for?

This hackathon is for builders who want to make software feel new again, builders who care about how things feel, not just how they run:

  • Full-stack engineers
  • Front-end and UX designers
  • Product thinkers & founders
  • Engineers with taste
  • AI Tinkerers who like weird interfaces, toy apps, and clever workflows

You should be able to code- but you don’t need to be an ML wizard.
This is fully in-person only.
No remote teams. No tourists. No spectators.

We admit 100–150 vetted participants.
Show us your GitHub, bring your skills, find your team on site.

Prizes

(with more to be announced)

1st: $2.5k in Anthropic credits

2nd: $1.5k in Anthropic credits

3rd: $1k in Anthropic credits

speakers

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Schedule

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WHEN

Saturday, February 21, 2026
9:00 am

WHERE

Betaworks
29 Little West 12th Street
New York, NY 10014

Agenda

6:00 PM – Doors open

7:00 PM – Opening remarks

7:30 PM– Demos

8:00 PM – Networking & pizzas

9:00 PM – Doors Close

Tools
For
Thinking

How New Technologies are Changing How We Create, Share, and Build Knowledge

When

February 21, 2026
9:00 am

Where

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014
or livestream
Proof of Full Vaccination Required

RENDER is Over, but Camp is just beginning

We had some great speakers and participants turn out for Render, and we all got to participate in very interesting conversations. You can find recordings of all of our sessions below. If you're working on a Tool for Thinking and want to participate in our upcoming accelerator program, you can learn more here.

Building Bicycles for the Mind

AI Tinkerers presents the Interfaces Hackathon with Claude, hosted in NYC with support from Anthropic and other community partners to be announced soon. 🎨⚙️🌆

This hackathon invites you to explore what’s possible at the interface layer now that tools like Claude make the hard parts easy. With so much compute, reasoning, and ideation power instantly available, the constraint isn’t the model anymore - it’s our imagination for how people use it.

We’re bringing together designers, engineers, and product-minded builders to experiment with UI patterns old and new: sliders, keypads, menus, timelines, pop-ups, cards, canvases, keyboards, windows, and layouts that break convention entirely. Work alongside Anthropic engineers, builders from the AI Tinkerers community, and a curated room of serious creators as we prototype the next wave of UI patterns for AI. No slide decks, no hand-waving. Bring your design instincts, your engineering skills, and ship something real. Your mission: build experiences that feel fresh, playful, and newly possible.

🎯 Hackathon Theme: Generative Interfaces × Claude

As AI becomes more capable, the bottleneck shifts from raw intelligence to how humans access it.

This weekend is about:

  • Trying UI ideas you’ve never had time to test
  • Using Claude to help you iterate, prototype, and ship
  • Reframing everyday tasks through unexpected UX
  • Interfaces that adapt with purpose
  • Tools where interaction is the innovation
  • Designing experiences that feel different, not just smarter
  • Asking “now that the AI is powerful, what should the screen look like?”

We’re not chasing enterprise use cases or grand societal impact.

We’re chasing novel experiences, thought-starters, and experiments that stretch the imagination for how humans touch intelligent systems.

If you’ve ever looked at a dropdown menu and thought “this is the last decade talking,” this is your playground.

Space is limited and curated — RSVP required.

Who is this for?

This hackathon is for builders who want to make software feel new again, builders who care about how things feel, not just how they run:

  • Full-stack engineers
  • Front-end and UX designers
  • Product thinkers & founders
  • Engineers with taste
  • AI Tinkerers who like weird interfaces, toy apps, and clever workflows

You should be able to code- but you don’t need to be an ML wizard.
This is fully in-person only.
No remote teams. No tourists. No spectators.

We admit 100–150 vetted participants.
Show us your GitHub, bring your skills, find your team on site.

Prizes

(with more to be announced)

1st: $2.5k in Anthropic credits

2nd: $1.5k in Anthropic credits

3rd: $1k in Anthropic credits

Speakers

Howard

Rheingold

Author
Tools for Thought
@hrheingold
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Schedule

11:30 AM
Doors Open
12:00 PM
Welcome
with MC
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM
How Do We Define Tools for Thinking and Why Do They Matter?
Join Jerry Michalski and John Borthwick as they talk about their interest in tools for thinking, and what excites them the most about the future of the category.
12:20 PM – 12:50 PM
Inflection Points for Tools for Thinking
What are the key inflection points that will supercharge Tools for Thinking in the near future? How will new technologies, user metaphors, and funding models change how people build these tools? John Borthwick will be discussing how the landscape is changing with the co-founders of Readwise, Daniel Doyon & Tristan Homsi.
12:50 PM – 1:00 PM
Q+A
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Demo: Protocol Design for Tools for Thinking
Gordon Brander will be presenting a brief demo on Subconscious and the Noosphere, products he and his team are working on to allow Tools for Thinking to become interoperable and better connected.
1:15 PM – 2:00 PM
Lunch and Networking
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
The History and Future of Software as Tools for Thinking
Some of the earliest examples of software explored by pioneers like Doug Engelbart, JCR Licklider, Alan Turing, and others were at their core technologies that help magnify, inspect, and spread our ideas. Jerry Michalski will be sitting down (virtually) with Howard Rheingold, author of Tools for Thought, to explore the history and future of "mind-amplifying technology".
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Q+A
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Tools for Thinking Product Demos
We’ll hear from builders and thinkers deep in the space and get to take a look at what they’re working on. We’ll be checking out Plexus, Re:Collect, Jerry’s Brain, Subconscious and more. 
4:15 PM – 4:45 PM
Leveraging AI and ML in Building New Tools for Thinking
Alice Albrecht and Linus Lee will be sitting down with Chris Pedregal to discuss their work in leveraging AI and Machine Learning for creating new kinds of tools for thinking.
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Q+A
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Idea Dimensionality and Representing Semantic Meaning
How do ideas - and the human brains that make and hold them - interact?  Get prepared for meta! Esther Dyson and Jerry Michalski, will discuss the idea of how people work together to shape, compare, intertwine and ultimately produce multi-faceted ideas and multi-dimensional idea spaces.  As David Waltz (Thinking Machines) once said, “Words are not in themselves carriers of meaning, but merely pointers to shared understanding.” Watch and lob questions as the two of them try to build and share the idea of how better ideas can be developed through collaboration.
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM
Q+A
5:45 PM – 7:00 PM
Closing and Happy Hour

Proof of Full Vaccination Required

Betaworks requires all visitors to show proof of full vaccination to enter. No exceptions. Two ways that you can show proof:
  • Official vaccine card with at least 2 weeks having passed since the date of the last required dose (1 dose for J&J/AstraZeneca, 2 for Pfizer/Moderna)
  • An active digital pass such as the NY State Excelsior Pass or the CLEAR app
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