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talkAugust 2026Garage Society, Hong Kong

Teaching Taste to an Agent

Hong Kong Web Dev

Augustin Chan spoke at Hong Kong Web Dev's August 2026 meetup on encoding personal aesthetic judgement into a reusable Claude skill — walking from a chance visit to Watkins Books in London, through the I Ching and the Jiaoshi Yilin, to a four-round iterative loop that generated ink-painting imagery for all 4,096 verses. Hosted by Rhys Turner of Hong Kong Web Dev, with Garage Society as venue partner.

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Reels

Sizzle reel — style is not a suffix
1:15
Organizer reel — Hong Kong Web Developers
Rhys Turner, James Bernardo · 0:53

From the night

An empty meeting room at Garage Society, projector screen showing the Hong Kong Web Developers title card
The room at Garage Society, before doors.
Two organizers standing at the front of a full room, sponsor slide on the screen behind them
Community notes and sponsors, before the talk.
Rhys Turner speaking into a microphone beside the projector screen
Rhys Turner, Hong Kong Web Developers.
Augustin Chan standing beside a screen reading Teaching Taste to an Agent
Teaching Taste to an Agent.
Augustin Chan speaking beside a slide showing the Watkins Books shopfront in London
Watkins Books, London — where the talk starts.
Augustin Chan speaking to a seated audience, slide visible at the left of frame
Working through the loop with the room.
The Iterative Loop slide on screen, audience seated in the foreground
Humans judge; the AI articulates.
The full room seen from the back, every chair taken
A full room on a Tuesday night.
Augustin Chan and Rhys Turner standing together before the talk
Augustin Chan and Rhys Turner, before the talk.

Photos courtesy of Ali Ghorbani ↗

Participants

Augustin ChanSpeaker — Digital Rain Technologies
Rhys TurnerHost — Hong Kong Web Dev
James BernardoDirector, Marketing & Growth — Garage Society