IronClaw Meetup
AI Builders Meetup #9
Manifesto
The harness layer, straight from the author of Attention Is All You Need.
About
A megaton meetup with Illia Polosukhin, co-author of Attention Is All You Need and co-founder of NEAR Protocol. A 10-year arc from Transformer to harness layers. Sovereignty architecture for open-source AI agents. IronClaw's security philosophy launched live. 179 attendees. Illia + Yeachan Heo (oh-my-codex) + Donggyu Kim (AutoRAG) + Jeff Wang (Windsurf CEO).
Highlights
- 01Illia Polosukhin: Co-author of Attention Is All You Need
- 02NEAR Protocol Co-Founder → IronClaw
- 03Transformer to Harness: a 10-year trajectory
- 04Yeachan Heo: oh-my-claudecode (11K stars), oh-my-codex
- 05Donggyu Kim: AutoRAG, k-skill, Nomadamas lead
- 06Jeff Wang: Windsurf CEO fireside chat
- 07IronClaw: Rust-based security · WASM sandbox · zero telemetry
- 08Partners: Sionic AI · instruct.kr · ULW · tiro.ooo
Program
19:00
Arrival / check-in
19:10
Welcome — Goobong Jeong
19:20
Illia Polosukhin keynote (20min)
19:45
Yeachan Heo (20min)
20:10
Donggyu Kim (20min)
20:35
Fireside — Illia × Jeff (25min)
21:00
Networking
People
Illia Polosukhin
Keynote
NEAR / IronClaw
Yeachan Heo
Speaker
oh-my-codex
Donggyu Kim
Speaker
Nomadamas / AutoRAG
Jeff Wang
Fireside
Cognition (Windsurf)
Goobong Jeong
Host
Team Attention
Quotes
“From Transformer to Harness — a 10-year trajectory”
— Event Theme
“Who owns the execution layer of agents”
— Event Theme
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