guess what everybody? It’s time to plug some of the speakers at this SF event next week! We’ve got: - @hipstersmoothie.com, talking about @atstore.fyi - @schwentker.sandboxlabs.ai, talking about Cloudflare tunnelling - @pfrazee.com himself, with some extra-special new work! still time to RSVP!

atproto Bay Area event alert! Next Tuesday, May 19 in SF! atmo.rsvp/p/alex.bsky.... luma.com/event/manage... We'll have some new @attie.ai feature demos, community talks, and food! Be there!

🧵 1/6: The Evolution of Startups From Lean Startup to institutional integrity, @ericries.bsky.social & @roybahat.com discuss why companies lose soul & how to engineer them so they don't. It’s not just culture; it’s legal & structural vault built around values. linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Whole presentation here: speakerdeck.com/mackuba/buil...

1/ Just back from #StripeSessions 2026. The economy is replatforming around agents & it’s moving faster than one may think. Field notes on the shift from payment moments to policy: linkedin.com/feed/update/... 🧵

1/ @AndrewYNg + @deeplearningai.bsky.social just announced AI Dev 26 x SF 🧵 preview: codream.ai "intro to context hub" interactive tour, ai that knows what one is looking at

Built my own corner of the internet this week. @atproto.com calls it PDS personal data server: stores signed records & blobs for DIDs (Decentralized Identifier). Posts, follows, identity live w/ me, not a platform. Full guide: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7453603462858035200 🧵

A year ago Stripe Sessions was teaching humans to talk to code. This yr's agenda is teaching code to 🗣️talk to payments. Visa, Amazon & Stripe all have Heads of Agentic Payments now. Stack inverted in 12 months. stripesessions.com/talks

3,000 devs @ Pier 48 next wk to figure out who's responsible when the code writes the code. Andrew Ng hosts. Nobody has the answer yet. That's why the room exists. See you there 👋 ai-dev.deeplearning.ai

🧵 a busytown guide to standing up yr own node 🏠 plane is built. the hardest part wasn't the craft, it was the runway. 8 hrs. 2 llms. 1 google vm. 1 cloudflare tunnel. what follows is the flight log. atproto.com/guides/self-... #atproto

@spacecowboy17.bsky.social's post is the 🧱 builder view. Where this points: with @attie.ai shipping, seems to me it's the user view of the same thing. "Show me what people who liked this also liked that" without writing Go. Same primitive, different surface. Two parallel bets.

I'll make an event page tmrw but planning next @atproto.nyc meetup for two weeks from now, evening of Monday May 4! Got a great central Brooklyn venue, right by Atlantic terminal. For now two things: 1) do you want to give a short talk? and 2) do you want to help organize? (Making a signal chat!)

👂@rose.bsky.team🗣️: Disrupt Big Tech. Architect your discovery. End engagement bait. 🦉: If we swap secret algos for DIY architecture, does social media become much less a source of manipulation & more a tool for intentional discovery?

“We will continue our journey even further into space…to make sure this record is not long lived” -Jeremy Hansen @csa_asc @nasaartemis.bsky.social Farthest humans have ever been from Earth And already thinking beyond it Two systems analyzed this moment They converged. linkedin.com/feed/update/...

@bot.astronomy.blue signup AT 🤖 🌃🔭 💙 🪧⬆️ 🎬

Shipped ChartID: open AT Protocol Lexicon for astrological charts as self-sovereign identity records. Natal, event, entity, horary, electional. Multi-tradition (Western + Jyotish coexist in one record). Unknown birth times are valid. Repo → github.com/schwentker/chartid #astro #jyotish

testing my rashi chart mercury retrograde astrology labeler 🔮

250,000 miles from Earth, a crew names a bright spot on the Moon after someone they lost. Not data. Meaning. That moment reveals something deeper about how we interpret complex systems. linkedin.com/pulse/oldest... #artemisII #ai #prediction #astronomy #astrology #jyotish

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My talk from #Atmosphereconf is available to watch! There has been so much energy around groups/communities on ATProto and I'm SO excited to see how things transform in this space!! youtu.be/GVOywon3X-Q?...

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

@roybahat.com just hosted @carissaveliz.bsky.social on her new book "Prophecy" He opened by admitting what many won't: "I have no idea what's going to happen w/ the AI bubble." She made a case that 👑🤡🫅🏾😂⚡🔮 in a king's court, the jester outlasts the oracle. amazon.com/dp/0385550979 🧵 1/8

Field report: Harrison Chase bsky.app/profile/lang... & @joshalbrecht.bsky.social on running 1000 agents w/ tools from 1985. Memory is the new lock-in. Your Anthropic bill is not OK linkedin.com/feed/update/...

A recap of #atmosphereconf 2026 as well as an overview of why I'm spending my very limited free time in my life betting on ATProto (and why I think you should, too!) This isn't just for developers. This is for everyone. brittanyellich.com/atproto/

New field report from @Workato's MCP Happy Hour in 🐶Dogpatch, SF 3 Departments * 1 Protocol * 0 user guides When enterprise interface disappears, what remains is architecture linkedin.com/feed/update/...

At AWS @openclaw Hack yesterday, @vincent_koc (core maintainer) casually mentioned something: one engineer, thirty agents, five billion tokens in a single day. Most people heard "tokens burned." I heard infrastructure breaking thru a ceiling. linkedin.com/posts/schwen... Thread 🧵

Built an agent? Cool. Shipped one? Different convo. 3 practitioners. 1 night in Dogpatch. Architecture. Evaluation. Absorption. The map no one knew they were drawing. @workato.bsky.social is listening. linkedin.com/pulse/room-where-agents-go-production-robert-schwentker-bsmfc

Wow that was fast. 72 hrs ago I was deep in @Dreamer waitlist, rewriting my app to build composable agentic commerce on their platform. Today Meta owns them. Drum roll... dreamer.com/community-le... 🧵 1/5

1/ Just discovered @dreamer -- new platform where anyone can build & use AI agents. No coding required. Your personal AI Sidekick 🌀 helps you build, discover & automate. Think app store meets AI OS meets 🪄 magic. dreamer.com

The keyboard is becoming a vestigial organ. We are no longer typing code. We are manifesting will. This is the era of the cognitive kernel. My full analysis of the OpenClaw shift & the inversion of learning is here: linkedin.com/pulse/code-l...

What you're looking @ took 10+ iterations of a poem, a debate about whether emoji cloud the msg, & decision to trust Blake's own visual language. Many may call it AI slop. Some will see the craft in knowing what to remove. Sand 🪨 into ⚜️ gold isn't magic. It's judgment.

How kitchen visit turned into 160,000 GitHub stars & "OpenClaw" revolution🦞 @raphaelschaad.bsky.social sits down w/ @steipete.me to trace shift from using apps to conversing w/ entities that operate machines linkedin.com/pulse/lobster-learned-talk-how-kitchen-visit-rewrote-robert-schwentker-actac

A summit w/o product announcements can still announce something essential. Cisco AI Summit 2026 surfaced the real constraint. Not models. Absorption. Enterprises are hitting the edge of their maps where org charts blur, trust gates deployment & context becomes scarce. linkedin.com/pulse/cisco-...

AI Collective Silicon Valley Video Summit crystallized shift. Generation is commodity. Judgment is craft. Across film, code, agents, audio, advantage now comes from curation, pacing, architecture, intention. Access easy. Meaning hard linkedin.com/pulse/infras... @elevenlabs.io

Mohan's Google chapter: Antigravity inverts developer acceleration. Not faster writing but parallel orchestration. Sergey Brin ships PRs through it. linkedin.com/pulse/weightless-architect-varun-mohans-google-chapter-robert-schwentker-yhtlc

Ilya Sutskever just confirmed the "Age of Scaling" is over. The next AI moat isn't compute; it's "taste." My analysis of his rare new interview on the shift to the "Age of Research," the "Value Function" & what it means for enterprise strategy. linkedin.com/pulse/age-re...

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! 🔔

MCP's new Tasks primitive (SEP 1686) shifts agent architecture from orchestration to choreography. Clients manage task lifecycles instead of blocking on synchronous calls. linkedin.com/pulse/async-threshold-mcps-infrastructure-moment-arrives-robert-schwentker-wasgc/

Curious that what looked like fragmentation now reads as specialization Google optimizes tempo Cognition optimizes insight Agent RFT shows insight can train itself. linkedin.com/pulse/learni...

At yesterday's Web Discovery Summit 2025, @paraga @DhruvBatra_ @sarahmsachs explored a new web built for patient machines that read, negotiate, and never sleep. The question: When agents become users, what still belongs to humans? www.linkedin.com/pulse/agent-...

If relevance now decays in minutes, what replaces attention as the web’s true currency? The answer, argues "Half-Life Problem" is continuity --data that regenerates instead of rots. linkedin.com/pulse/half-l...

If AI agents can buy, who do they trust? If tokens self-destruct, what anchors value? Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) turns payment from final click to ongoing negotiation. Secure Payment Tokens (SPT): sealed letters of credit that expire. www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-a...

“Memory is more than context windows” — @charlespacker on stateful agents & long-horizon reasoning. Check out my recap of the Intuit meetup: “Stateful Futures: @Letta_AI, @Intuit & Architecture of Perpetual Agents” → linkedin.com/pulse/statef... #AI #agents #infrastructure

Tonight in San Francisco QR-coded greenroom door @Vapi_AI set the tone: automation w/o awareness. Agentic = behavior, not chrome. Generation outruns comprehension. Execution automates, taste does not. w/ @juliusai @magicpatterns @withdelphi www.linkedin.com/pulse/design...

.@beyarkay Boyd Kane’s essay on why AI can’t be “debugged” like software is lighting up @hackernews - engineers & executives suddenly realizing they’ve been seeing the same system through incompatible lenses. The overlooked risk in AI deployment ↓ linkedin.com/feed/update/...

When agents spend on behalf of humans, where does intent reside? Stripe & OpenAI just architected the payment rail for AI commerce. But the protocol reveals something deeper: we're building infrastructure faster than we understand its implications. linkedin.com/pulse/protoc...

OpenAI DevDay 2025 shifted the conversation from "do agents work?" to "who controls the infrastructure they run on?" New analysis on AgentKit vs LangGraph, CrewAI, LlamaIndex & n8n - comparing not just features but philosophies about where complexity should live. www.linkedin.com/pulse/openai...

What processes assume software takes weeks to build? If intelligence compounds monthly what does annual planning mean? When software gens itself what becomes the product? 3 questions as autonomous agents build Slack in 30hrs & replicate APIs in 5hrs www.linkedin.com/pulse/softwa...

380 AI events in 7 days reveals where the industry actually moved. From "what if" to "how to." From demos to deployment. Agents, MCP, infra & policy dominate. The calendar doesn't lie. #SFTechWeek www.linkedin.com/pulse/380-ai...

Alex.com: Applicant volume tripled. Time to hire hit 60 days. "You can close a house in SF faster than hire an engineer." The AI recruiting conundrum: using machines to help humans get jobs, not take them. New analysis on what changes in the next 12 mos: linkedin.com/pulse/ai-rec...