Schwentker
@schwentker.bsky.social
Empowering enterprises w/ generative AI education & immersive learning experiences. Bridging communities thru decentralized tech & transformative innovation.
prior:
@AmEx @PayPal @Citi
@BlockchainU founder
@dSocialCommons podcast
twitter.com/schwentker
prior:
@AmEx @PayPal @Citi
@BlockchainU founder
@dSocialCommons podcast
twitter.com/schwentker
"If you need 10 trillion tokens to learn what a human learns in 10 million, you are not intelligent; you are a statistical parrot."
@ilyasut on the goal of compressing the "experience" required for AI learning with @dwarkeshpodcast
@ilyasut on the goal of compressing the "experience" required for AI learning with @dwarkeshpodcast
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"If you need 10 trillion tokens to learn what a human learns in 10 million, you are not intelligent; you are a statistical parrot."
@ilyasut on the goal of compressing the "experience" required for AI learning with @dwarkeshpodcast
@ilyasut on the goal of compressing the "experience" required for AI learning with @dwarkeshpodcast
The math of survival: Painted 1914-16 for Klimt's greatest patrons. Seized by Nazis 1938. Saved when Elisabeth claimed Klimt was her biological father (he wasn't). Her mother swore to it under oath. The lie worked.
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/18/k...
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/18/k...
November 19, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The math of survival: Painted 1914-16 for Klimt's greatest patrons. Seized by Nazis 1938. Saved when Elisabeth claimed Klimt was her biological father (he wasn't). Her mother swore to it under oath. The lie worked.
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/18/k...
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/18/k...
Klimt's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold tonight for $236.4M--2nd highest auction price ever & 100% jump over his previous record.
Painted 1914-16, hung above Leonard Lauder's dining table for decades. 20-min bidding war.
The room erupted! 🔔
Painted 1914-16, hung above Leonard Lauder's dining table for decades. 20-min bidding war.
The room erupted! 🔔
November 19, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Klimt's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold tonight for $236.4M--2nd highest auction price ever & 100% jump over his previous record.
Painted 1914-16, hung above Leonard Lauder's dining table for decades. 20-min bidding war.
The room erupted! 🔔
Painted 1914-16, hung above Leonard Lauder's dining table for decades. 20-min bidding war.
The room erupted! 🔔
.@prefect.io's: @aaazzam.bsky.social critiques:
"glorified REST wrappers designed for SDKs, not agents."
Gap btw protocol elegance & enterprise requirements 🎯 shapes infrastructure emerging at MCP's one-year mark
"glorified REST wrappers designed for SDKs, not agents."
Gap btw protocol elegance & enterprise requirements 🎯 shapes infrastructure emerging at MCP's one-year mark
November 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
.@prefect.io's: @aaazzam.bsky.social critiques:
"glorified REST wrappers designed for SDKs, not agents."
Gap btw protocol elegance & enterprise requirements 🎯 shapes infrastructure emerging at MCP's one-year mark
"glorified REST wrappers designed for SDKs, not agents."
Gap btw protocol elegance & enterprise requirements 🎯 shapes infrastructure emerging at MCP's one-year mark
Apache Mesos creator Ben Hindman asks the question enterprises care about: "Can your MCP server survive a reboot mid-transaction?" PayPal now exposes 32 commerce operations requiring transaction integrity.
November 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Apache Mesos creator Ben Hindman asks the question enterprises care about: "Can your MCP server survive a reboot mid-transaction?" PayPal now exposes 32 commerce operations requiring transaction integrity.
Grader becomes the ⚖️ moral core of AI
What gets measured shapes what gets absorbed
Optimization is no longer neutral it teaches value.
What gets measured shapes what gets absorbed
Optimization is no longer neutral it teaches value.
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Grader becomes the ⚖️ moral core of AI
What gets measured shapes what gets absorbed
Optimization is no longer neutral it teaches value.
What gets measured shapes what gets absorbed
Optimization is no longer neutral it teaches value.
Agent RFT is not faster execution it is wiser behavior
Parallel calls boundary recognition strategic restraint
Learning from consequences compressed into wisdom.
Parallel calls boundary recognition strategic restraint
Learning from consequences compressed into wisdom.
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Agent RFT is not faster execution it is wiser behavior
Parallel calls boundary recognition strategic restraint
Learning from consequences compressed into wisdom.
Parallel calls boundary recognition strategic restraint
Learning from consequences compressed into wisdom.
.@DhruvBatra_
“Sometimes the agent should pay for access. Sometimes the agent should be paid for surfacing useful information.”
Attention becomes reciprocity -- value 🔁flowing both ways.
“Sometimes the agent should pay for access. Sometimes the agent should be paid for surfacing useful information.”
Attention becomes reciprocity -- value 🔁flowing both ways.
November 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
.@DhruvBatra_
“Sometimes the agent should pay for access. Sometimes the agent should be paid for surfacing useful information.”
Attention becomes reciprocity -- value 🔁flowing both ways.
“Sometimes the agent should pay for access. Sometimes the agent should be paid for surfacing useful information.”
Attention becomes reciprocity -- value 🔁flowing both ways.
.@sarahmsachs
“If I’m LinkedIn or Reddit and my primary users are agents, is it adversarial or complementary?”
Trust, not tech, defines the next interface.
“If I’m LinkedIn or Reddit and my primary users are agents, is it adversarial or complementary?”
Trust, not tech, defines the next interface.
November 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
.@sarahmsachs
“If I’m LinkedIn or Reddit and my primary users are agents, is it adversarial or complementary?”
Trust, not tech, defines the next interface.
“If I’m LinkedIn or Reddit and my primary users are agents, is it adversarial or complementary?”
Trust, not tech, defines the next interface.
.@paraga @paraga:
“Humans are impatient. Agents work all night. Business model is different.”
Compute replaces clicks. The next economy measures usefulness per token, not attention per second.
“Humans are impatient. Agents work all night. Business model is different.”
Compute replaces clicks. The next economy measures usefulness per token, not attention per second.
November 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
.@paraga @paraga:
“Humans are impatient. Agents work all night. Business model is different.”
Compute replaces clicks. The next economy measures usefulness per token, not attention per second.
“Humans are impatient. Agents work all night. Business model is different.”
Compute replaces clicks. The next economy measures usefulness per token, not attention per second.
.@paddix CEO of @digitalocean - “When you have fresh, relevant data delivered at very low latency, you gain relevancy.”
The shift isn’t bigger models or better search.
It’s search embedded in everything, alive in real time.
The shift isn’t bigger models or better search.
It’s search embedded in everything, alive in real time.
October 31, 2025 at 12:20 AM
.@paddix CEO of @digitalocean - “When you have fresh, relevant data delivered at very low latency, you gain relevancy.”
The shift isn’t bigger models or better search.
It’s search embedded in everything, alive in real time.
The shift isn’t bigger models or better search.
It’s search embedded in everything, alive in real time.
The agent sits between buyer & business, controlling checkout UI & holding payment tokens.
When software intermediates commerce at this level, where does the merchant relationship actually reside? With who renders the interface?
When software intermediates commerce at this level, where does the merchant relationship actually reside? With who renders the interface?
October 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The agent sits between buyer & business, controlling checkout UI & holding payment tokens.
When software intermediates commerce at this level, where does the merchant relationship actually reside? With who renders the interface?
When software intermediates commerce at this level, where does the merchant relationship actually reside? With who renders the interface?
6-month prediction: w/ Shopify's 1M+ merchants entering test mode for ChatGPT Instant Checkout, we'll see meaningful uptake by Q1 2026.
Protocol adoption follows a pattern: early infrastructure layer (done), reference implementation (live w/ Etsy), then the land grab (Shopify rollout = this).
Protocol adoption follows a pattern: early infrastructure layer (done), reference implementation (live w/ Etsy), then the land grab (Shopify rollout = this).
October 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
6-month prediction: w/ Shopify's 1M+ merchants entering test mode for ChatGPT Instant Checkout, we'll see meaningful uptake by Q1 2026.
Protocol adoption follows a pattern: early infrastructure layer (done), reference implementation (live w/ Etsy), then the land grab (Shopify rollout = this).
Protocol adoption follows a pattern: early infrastructure layer (done), reference implementation (live w/ Etsy), then the land grab (Shopify rollout = this).
Prediction: Agentic frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, n8n) will adjust strategy significantly in next 6 months as both OpenAI's AgentKit & Anthropic's Agent SDK reshape market.
Not extinction - evolution. Specialization deepens where platforms can't follow. Stay tuned.
Not extinction - evolution. Specialization deepens where platforms can't follow. Stay tuned.
October 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Prediction: Agentic frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, n8n) will adjust strategy significantly in next 6 months as both OpenAI's AgentKit & Anthropic's Agent SDK reshape market.
Not extinction - evolution. Specialization deepens where platforms can't follow. Stay tuned.
Not extinction - evolution. Specialization deepens where platforms can't follow. Stay tuned.
Question worth considering: If AgentKit commoditizes orchestration complexity where does differentiation migrate next?
To eval quality? Specialized reasoning? Domain-specific tool libraries?
Layer that remains hard may determine which frameworks capture value over next 24 months.
To eval quality? Specialized reasoning? Domain-specific tool libraries?
Layer that remains hard may determine which frameworks capture value over next 24 months.
October 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Question worth considering: If AgentKit commoditizes orchestration complexity where does differentiation migrate next?
To eval quality? Specialized reasoning? Domain-specific tool libraries?
Layer that remains hard may determine which frameworks capture value over next 24 months.
To eval quality? Specialized reasoning? Domain-specific tool libraries?
Layer that remains hard may determine which frameworks capture value over next 24 months.
"The model already has a lot of capabilities. I'm convinced that even w/ current generation models, there's way more intelligence in there than we've been able to unlock."
@brada, Product Lead, Claude Developer Platform
on unhobbling AI vs constraining it w/ scaffolding
@brada, Product Lead, Claude Developer Platform
on unhobbling AI vs constraining it w/ scaffolding
October 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"The model already has a lot of capabilities. I'm convinced that even w/ current generation models, there's way more intelligence in there than we've been able to unlock."
@brada, Product Lead, Claude Developer Platform
on unhobbling AI vs constraining it w/ scaffolding
@brada, Product Lead, Claude Developer Platform
on unhobbling AI vs constraining it w/ scaffolding
"We can help you get self-improving & continuously improving outcomes out of Claude. Not better execution of predetermined plans. Outcomes that improve themselves through intelligent iteration."
Claude's @katelyn_lesse on what happens when frameworks become liabilities
Claude's @katelyn_lesse on what happens when frameworks become liabilities
October 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"We can help you get self-improving & continuously improving outcomes out of Claude. Not better execution of predetermined plans. Outcomes that improve themselves through intelligent iteration."
Claude's @katelyn_lesse on what happens when frameworks become liabilities
Claude's @katelyn_lesse on what happens when frameworks become liabilities
Paradox: democratizing access by automating gatekeeping.|
"We believe if you apply for your dream job, you should get that interview. It shouldn't be about if you went to an Ivy League. Just: can you tell me about the skills you bring?"
AI making hiring more human, not less.
"We believe if you apply for your dream job, you should get that interview. It shouldn't be about if you went to an Ivy League. Just: can you tell me about the skills you bring?"
AI making hiring more human, not less.
October 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Paradox: democratizing access by automating gatekeeping.|
"We believe if you apply for your dream job, you should get that interview. It shouldn't be about if you went to an Ivy League. Just: can you tell me about the skills you bring?"
AI making hiring more human, not less.
"We believe if you apply for your dream job, you should get that interview. It shouldn't be about if you went to an Ivy League. Just: can you tell me about the skills you bring?"
AI making hiring more human, not less.
If you could interview EVERY candidate who applied at near-zero marginal cost, would you?
What if the bottleneck isn't candidate quality but processing bandwidth?
Companies figuring this out first are building data moats via superior talent pools.
What if the bottleneck isn't candidate quality but processing bandwidth?
Companies figuring this out first are building data moats via superior talent pools.
October 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
If you could interview EVERY candidate who applied at near-zero marginal cost, would you?
What if the bottleneck isn't candidate quality but processing bandwidth?
Companies figuring this out first are building data moats via superior talent pools.
What if the bottleneck isn't candidate quality but processing bandwidth?
Companies figuring this out first are building data moats via superior talent pools.
If AI agents can authorize payments, what shifts follow?
• Who holds accountability when things go wrong: user, merchant or agent provider?
• Could Mandates extend into healthcare, data sharing, or gov services?
• What signals tell us this trust layer has gone mainstream?
• Who holds accountability when things go wrong: user, merchant or agent provider?
• Could Mandates extend into healthcare, data sharing, or gov services?
• What signals tell us this trust layer has gone mainstream?
September 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
If AI agents can authorize payments, what shifts follow?
• Who holds accountability when things go wrong: user, merchant or agent provider?
• Could Mandates extend into healthcare, data sharing, or gov services?
• What signals tell us this trust layer has gone mainstream?
• Who holds accountability when things go wrong: user, merchant or agent provider?
• Could Mandates extend into healthcare, data sharing, or gov services?
• What signals tell us this trust layer has gone mainstream?
"This window will end. It'll be over in 2-3 years from now. Between a year ago & 3 years from now, this is when the next hundreds of great companies will get started"
@levie.bsky.social
The AI opportunity window is brief but massive.
@levie.bsky.social
The AI opportunity window is brief but massive.
September 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"This window will end. It'll be over in 2-3 years from now. Between a year ago & 3 years from now, this is when the next hundreds of great companies will get started"
@levie.bsky.social
The AI opportunity window is brief but massive.
@levie.bsky.social
The AI opportunity window is brief but massive.
AI paradox:
Technology that requires no technical selling. Marketing leaders try ChatGPT & immediately see value.
Conversation shifted from
"Will AI matter?"
to
"How do we make it safe, reliable & trustworthy?"
Technology that requires no technical selling. Marketing leaders try ChatGPT & immediately see value.
Conversation shifted from
"Will AI matter?"
to
"How do we make it safe, reliable & trustworthy?"
September 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
AI paradox:
Technology that requires no technical selling. Marketing leaders try ChatGPT & immediately see value.
Conversation shifted from
"Will AI matter?"
to
"How do we make it safe, reliable & trustworthy?"
Technology that requires no technical selling. Marketing leaders try ChatGPT & immediately see value.
Conversation shifted from
"Will AI matter?"
to
"How do we make it safe, reliable & trustworthy?"
If 90% of a company's intellectual property lives in unstructured data (contracts, presentations, communications) that resists automation, what strategic advantage could you gain by making that data computationally accessible?
September 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
If 90% of a company's intellectual property lives in unstructured data (contracts, presentations, communications) that resists automation, what strategic advantage could you gain by making that data computationally accessible?
By March 2026🔮 we'll see first wave of "context engineering bootcamps" - intensive programs teaching professionals to write docs AS product specs for AI agents.
The skill gap isn't prompting - it's designing work so agents can actually do it.
Documentation becomes code.
The skill gap isn't prompting - it's designing work so agents can actually do it.
Documentation becomes code.
September 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
By March 2026🔮 we'll see first wave of "context engineering bootcamps" - intensive programs teaching professionals to write docs AS product specs for AI agents.
The skill gap isn't prompting - it's designing work so agents can actually do it.
Documentation becomes code.
The skill gap isn't prompting - it's designing work so agents can actually do it.
Documentation becomes code.
Speed paradox of agent systems:
Like hiring a team of 20 researchers instead of one fast typist.
Levie: "I don't care if it takes 5 seconds or a minute when 20 agents work in parallel."
We spent decades optimizing for sequential speed. Now thoroughness at scale beats velocity.
Like hiring a team of 20 researchers instead of one fast typist.
Levie: "I don't care if it takes 5 seconds or a minute when 20 agents work in parallel."
We spent decades optimizing for sequential speed. Now thoroughness at scale beats velocity.
September 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Speed paradox of agent systems:
Like hiring a team of 20 researchers instead of one fast typist.
Levie: "I don't care if it takes 5 seconds or a minute when 20 agents work in parallel."
We spent decades optimizing for sequential speed. Now thoroughness at scale beats velocity.
Like hiring a team of 20 researchers instead of one fast typist.
Levie: "I don't care if it takes 5 seconds or a minute when 20 agents work in parallel."
We spent decades optimizing for sequential speed. Now thoroughness at scale beats velocity.