First Live Demo of the CodeYam Software Simulator at the Boulder AI Builders Monthly Meetup

A recap of the August 14, 2024 Boulder AI Builders Meetup along with a recording of the first-ever live demo CodeYam's software simulator in action.

CodeYam cofounder and CEO, Nadia Eldeib here. After shipping our functional demo video of the CodeYam software simulator last week, we had the exciting opportunity to do a live demo at the August Boulder AI Builders Meetup earlier this week! This meetup was organized by the Freeplay, Matchstick Ventures, and Ombud teams and hosted at the Kiln coworking space in Boulder, CO. With 130+ RSVPs, 5 demos, and standing-room only in the meetup space, this was an electric and inspiring event. 

CodeYam was the final AI builder demo of the night. For a short recap of all four sessions, see below. 

August Meetup Demos of Builder AI Builders: 

1. Jane Fine from Google demoed their new Google Labs Code AI “Data Science Agent” with a timely example of creating graphs using data from the recent Paris Olympics.

2. Nathan Robinson, CEO and Founder of Plotzy, an AI for commercial real estate startup, demoed how they use RAG and agentic AI to improve their user experience for understanding zoning information and other real estate information, including a cool mapping use case.

3. Anneliese Niebauer demoed ShowStop, a startup that helps companies create great ad content by using AI to more efficiently stitch together content into videos and optimize performance. 

4. Matt Bruehl from NVIDIA demoed their NIM serverless endpoints on Hugging Face, highlighting some of the speed and cost efficiencies this introduces as well as the idea of Inference-as-a-Service.  

5. I demoed CodeYam. After sharing a bit of background on why software simulation is so exciting, I dug into a pull request review workflow example. Fun fact: PRs really haven’t changed all that much in the past 14 years (source). Software simulation adds a completely new dimension to reviewing a PR, and has the potential to radically improve how we understand, test, review, and demo code changes.

Another meetup attendee, Blair Simpson, shared a great detailed writeup of the demos as well, which you can find here. 

If you’d like to see the full CodeYam demo, you can watch a recording here: 

Thanks to Liz Cohen, founder of Lizco Studios, for capturing this first CodeYam live demo. And thanks to the hosts and sponsors organizing this awesome meetup, and the amazing crowd! There were awesome questions and the energy in the room was palpable. It was also a blast discussing AI and what different folks were building in the pizza happy hour after the demos. 

We are hard at work on CodeYam, and plan to share more demos of our progress on software simulation soon. If you’re interested in following along, please subscribe to the CodeYam blog. 

And if you’re based in Boulder, Denver, or nearby, the next AI Builder Meetup is coming up in September. You can RSVP here for that event, which will be in Denver as part of the Denver Startup Week lineup. 

If you want to try out CodeYam on your project, you can also sign up for our waitlist on our website and I’ll follow up. 

This first live demo was an exciting milestone for our team.

Now back to building!