VCN #50: Own the Stack

Heads up: this is a hands-on build night and bringing a laptop is mandatory. Fifty events. One stack. All yours. This is the finale. Across nine builder mornings and nights you assembled a real coding-agent rig one piece at a time: a local open-weights model on bare metal (#41), a disposable sandbox (#42), a throwaway micro-VM (#43), your own agent loop from scratch (#44), an eval bench (#45), fast local serving (#47), repo memory (#48), and the swarm (#49). Today you wire all of it into ONE owned stack. Self-hosted. Fully private. Zero API bill. VCN #50: Own the Stack is the graduation. We book-end the season opener, Bare Metal, and prove the whole thing runs on hardware you control. Format: The arc. A fast recap of the nine builds and how they snap together. Model feeds the loop, loop runs in the sandbox, sandbox lives on the VM, evals keep it honest, memory makes it sharp, the swarm makes it parallel.The assembly. Hands-on. Wire your pieces into one rig: local model + fast serving + sandbox + VM + loop + evals + repo memory + swarm, all self-hosted. Nebius Token Factory credits cover the heavy inference while you assemble.The cut-over. Pull the hosted API. Run your owned stack against a real task. Watch it work with no bill, no data leaving your box.Graduation demos + coffee. Each builder shows their rig. We celebrate the season, hand out the exploded-diagram poster of the stack you built, and call it. By 1pm your coding agent runs entirely on a stack that is yours. No API key required. Builders only. Bring the pieces you built this season, or come assemble from the reference rig we hand out. Doors 10am. Build 10:15. Graduation demos + coffee 12 to 1. Frontier Tower Floor 9. Hosted by Vibe Coding Nights: Rayyan Zahid (Immersive Commons), Michalis Vasileiadis (Hacker Bob), Eric Mockler (AI Geneticist), Devinder Sodhi (Learning Layer Labs). Facilitator: Rayyan Zahid. Guest speaker TBD (open call). Your ticket includes z.ai + Claude Code for the session and Nebius Token Factory credits to run the labs. RSVP if you want to walk out owning your whole coding-agent stack. Frontier Tower members: your ticket is on us. Reach out to the team directly and we'll get you a free RSVP.