AI Meetups & Real Life Convos | Where Are We In The Adoption Curve?

AI Meetups & Real Life Convos | Where Are We In The Adoption Curve?

From Mere Morpheus by Kyrin Down

April 23, 2026 · 34 min · Episode 72

About this episode

Kyrin discusses insights from AI meetups and conversations, exploring the current state of AI adoption and the challenges faced.

What have I learnt from AI meetups & real life conversations Welcome everyone, Kyrin here with Ep#19 of Mere Morpheus. Today we're going over the types of people I have met interacting with AI and where this says we are in the adoption curve.  Along the way, I reflect on why we’re still in the 1–2% tinkerer phase, where hallucinations and data curation remain hard and why understanding agent architecture (without deep coding) still matters. Meetups are exploding, practical use-cases are piling up and the trade-offs between frontier closed models and fast‑catching open models continue.  This is a Value 4 Value show so please provide back any value you got with some time, talent or treasure!  Timeline: (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:07) Pre‑mingle at AI Builders Brisbane and the cybersecurity skeptic (00:04:32) Curious but not technical: the early majority hit a wall (00:06:33) Super‑users in the wild: young builders changing education (00:08:20) Limits of personal aptitude: from maths analogies to AI architecture (00:09:15) Everyday people buffeted by hype: jobs, fear, and indifference (00:11:01) The tinkerer’s lane: playing, not plumbing the depths (00:12:48) Juan the…

People in this episode

Host: Kyrin

Topics covered

  • AI adoption
  • meetups
  • technology
  • education
  • user experience
  • data curation

Keywords

  • AI meetups
  • adoption curve
  • data curation
  • agent architecture
  • user experience
  • technology

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