Humans in the Loop: a small AI community in Dubai

Nobody has read the paper · The agent has been almost working since March · We ripped it out and went back to regex · Have you tried a bigger model? · The eval is vibes · We will fix the prompt later · Backup plan is a farm · Did you check Anthropic's latest tweet? · It is not a bug, it is a temperature setting · We became an AI first company on Monday · Just wrap it in an agent · The demo was running on a cached response · It only hallucinates on the important ones · Somebody added RAG and nobody remembers why · We benchmarked it against ourselves · Ninety percent done since February · The intern's notebook is in production · It passed the eval and failed the client · The model got better and our product got worse · Adding the word please improved accuracy · We turned the temperature down and it got sad · Nobody wants to own the prompt file · Please stop putting a chatbot on it · The context window will save us · AGI is two weeks away, again · We are pivoting to agents on Thursday · My cofounder is a spreadsheet with an API key · The roadmap is whatever shipped last week ·

The lead

Nobody is caught up. Not even the guy who posts about it daily.

Humans in the Loop is a small community in Dubai for people who work with AI. A handful of us, meeting on a Saturday afternoon to keep pace with it together, and to stay human while doing it.

Request a seat

A round table set for a dozen, chairs pulled in, the Dubai skyline through the window behind it.

A small gathering, not an event

No stage, no speakers, nobody sitting in an audience. Small enough that you are never waiting for a gap to talk, and small enough that people remember you the next time.

People who actually work with AI

Engineers, researchers, designers, technical PMs. Seniority is not the filter. A junior engineer shipping something real belongs here more than a director who read a report.

Whatever you found, bring it

Somebody always has a tool, a workflow or a way of working that quietly changed their week, and hearing it first hand beats reading about it later.

When	Saturday, 4 to 6
Where	Dubai, address with the invitation
Size	Small, and no stage
Cost	Nothing
Getting in	By request, on Luma

Comment

Not that kinda meetup

We're small on purpose

Dubai has an AI event most days of the week. Big room, free entry, a keynote on the future of work, and a sponsor who would love to show you their platform. You leave with a tote bag and nobody's number.

This one is kept small. Small enough that everyone gets heard, that nobody ends up as an audience. Somebody explains the thing you never got round to reading, somebody has the opposite opinion and a good reason for it, and you go home knowing something you did not know at four. Some of it is not useful at all, like whose backup plan is a farm and what everyone intends to do when the AI overlords arrive.

Small enough that if you do not turn up, it is noticed.

Standing

House rules

Six lines that keep it a good room

No pitches, no panels, no slides.nobody is selling anything
Nothing is recorded.no photos without asking
Phones face down.face down, not just silent
Everyone gets heard.including whoever is quietest
Nobody has to prove anything.no credentials at the door
Small enough to hear each other.one conversation, not five

The charter, in full, on request

The invitation

Request a seat

Almost everyone comes on their own and knows nobody when they walk in. That is the normal way to arrive. Come once and see whether these are your people.

Request a seat

Wrong Saturday? Ask to hear about the next one

Hands reaching across a table over papers and coffee cups.