Coffee and Tech: Let's Try Kimi K3 Together

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Description (English) Coffee and Tech: Kimi K3 Thursday 27 August · 5:00–9:00 PM · Starbucks Reserve Roastery, West Nanjing Road By popular demand — one more get-together in Shanghai before Hanley heads back to Hong Kong. Coffee and Tech is the classic Lunatechs format. Our Hong Kong crew has been doing it for the better part of a year — find a cafe, open your laptop, tinker over a drink, meet people while you're at it. Now it's Shanghai's turn. Kimi K3 gives us something to focus on this time. Rather than read other people's takes on it, let's sit down together and open it: write some code, wire up an agent, throw a long document at it, break it and see what happens. Then compare notes with whoever's next to you. You don't have to touch it at all, though. Come sit, get a drink, and talk about AI and tech — that's a completely valid way to spend the evening. This isn't a workshop. There's no curriculum, no homework, and nobody's testing you. One thing worth knowing: Hanley will be there, so come grab him for vibe coding advice. How to get started, which tools are worth your time, whatever you're stuck on — just ask. Bring your own Kimi K3 access If you want to get hands-on, set your Kimi account up before Thursday — then you can dive straight in rather than doing admin at the table. Accounts and API keys are the one thing we can't hand over, so that part's yours to sort. This one's a hang-out rather than a class, so there's no formal setup session — just people trying things and comparing notes. Not set up, or not planning to? Come anyway. Pull up a chair, look over someone's shoulder, join the conversation — that's a perfectly good way to spend the evening. Where exactly Starbucks Reserve Roastery 789 West Nanjing Road, Units 110 & 201, Jing'an District Metro: walkable from West Nanjing Road station (Lines 2\/12\/13) ⟵ exit confirmed in the day-of update We have not booked anything. This is a public cafe and we're turning up like any other customer — grabbing a table and seeing how much space we can hold. So: What do I need to bring? Just yourself. No ticket, no project, no prep, no prior knowledge. If you want to get hands-on, bring your own laptop and your own Kimi account. If you're just coming to talk, bring nothing at all except your enthusiasm. Chinese or English, both work. Drop in any time between 5 and 9 — no need to stay the whole evening. About Lunatechs Lunatics + Tech = Lunatechs — a community for tech enthusiasts. Started in Hong Kong, now 1,500+ members, since expanded to Singapore. What we do is simple: get people who like tech in the same room, get a drink, and talk about what everyone's building. No barrier to entry. You don't need to know much — you just need to be into it. Co-founded by Hanley Leung (ex-Apple, EA, Yahoo!) and Jason Xu (ex-Google, Alibaba). This is a stop on the Lunatechs 2026 World Tour: https:\/\/lunatechs.social\/tour\/