Daytona AI Builders - SF, September 2026

An event dedicated to exploring all things AI Engineering!

Event partners: WorkOS & LlamaIndex

​Agenda

​​​​​🕒 5:30 pm – 5:35 pm
Welcome and Opening Remarks

🎤 Borna Perak, GTM & Partnerships @ Daytona

​​​​​​​🕒 5:35 pm – 5:50 pm
Talk "Your Agent's Slowest Tool Is Its Mouse"​

🎤 Muhammad Annas Hashmi, DevRel at Daytona

​​​​​​​Outline:

Every click a GUI agent makes costs a full screenshot and a model round trip, and it only lands if the layout stayed where the model last saw it. Chain a task out of clicks and you have bought seconds of waiting and a context window full of pixels for work a shell one-liner could have done. Screenshots are heavy. Text is light. And a click sequence is the most fragile program ever written. No variables, no error handling, and the only retry is asking the model again.

This talk builds the cost model of computer use. Where the waiting actually comes from, why pixel agents break when nothing is wrong, and the levers that fix it: read structure (a DOM, an accessibility tree) instead of rendering it to an image first, write code instead of emitting one click at a time, and cache what worked so the second run costs nothing. I'll then follow up with a demo of what we're doing at Daytona to address these.

​🕒 5:50 pm – 6:05 pm
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🎤 Speaker from WorkOS

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​🕒 6:05 pm – 6:20 pm
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🎤 Speaker from LlamaIndex

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​🕒 6:20 pm – 6:30 pm
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​🕒 6:30 pm – 6:40 pm
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​🕒 6:40 pm – 6:50 pm
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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​🕒 6:50 pm - 8:00 pm

​​Networking

With pizzas and beverages

About event

This is dynamic gathering for AI enthusiasts, innovators, and professionals to collaborate, share ideas, and explore the latest advancements in artificial intelligence. Whether you're building AI products, researching cutting-edge algorithms, or simply passionate about the field, join us to connect, learn, and drive the future of AI forward.