Cleveland will demonstrate how he built a working AI chatbot using SvelteKit and Svelte 5 that embodies Mayor Harold Washington's strategic thinking - not just his quotes. This "Ancestral Algorithm" approach shows how to create conversational AI interfaces that preserve cultural knowledge and decision-making frameworks.
Technical highlights:
Cleveland will show the live demo, walk through key code patterns, and discuss how Svelte developer experience made rapid prototyping possible for culturally-specific AI applications.
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Cleveland will demonstrate how he built a working AI chatbot using SvelteKit and Svelte 5 that embodies Mayor Harold Washington's strategic thinking - not just his quotes. This "Ancestral Algorithm" approach shows how to create conversational AI interfaces that preserve cultural knowledge and decision-making frameworks.
Technical highlights:
Cleveland will show the live demo, walk through key code patterns, and discuss how Svelte developer experience made rapid prototyping possible for culturally-specific AI applications.
Platform Sponsors

Torc is a community-first platform bringing together remote-first software engineer and developer opportunities from across the globe. Join a network that’s all about connection, collaboration, and finding your next big move — together.
Join our community today!

Don't let broken lines of code, busted API calls, and crashes ruin your app. Join the 4M developers and 90K organizations who consider Sentry “not bad” when it comes to application monitoring. Use code “guild” for 3 free months of the team plan.
https://sentry.io
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