AI After Five: Knowledge Bases and Skills

Last week, Andrej Karpathy went viral on X(again!) with a simple paradigm: instead of using RAG, maintain a wiki. Don’t just retrieve answers, but instead build a knowledge base that remembers, connects, and compounds. Sha Frasier already did exactly that. He's a financial analyst and music obsessive who used Claude and Obsidian to build a living knowledge base mapping how every genre, album, artist, and influence in music connects. He'll break down how he did it and show you how to apply the same approach to your own projects. Andrew Orobator is a Senior Android Engineer at Reddit asking a different question: what if the secret to better AI agents isn't more compute, it's knowing when to shut them off? He will explore the concept of "vibe engineering" and why functional AI systems need circadian rhythms just like we do. The rundown: 7:00pm: Sha's full walkthrough of the music knowledge base and his process 7:30pm: Andrew's deep dive into vibe-engineering 8:00pm: Free drinks, food, and open hangout time after Doors open at 6:30pm. This is the first edition of AI After Five by Vellum, a speaker series where builders walk you through a real AI project they actually built, how they did it, what worked, what didn't, and then we eat, drink, and talk about it. Come help us kick it off. 📸 Photos and video may be taken during the event for use on Vellum's social media and marketing channels. By attending, you consent to being photographed or recorded.