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Empowering enterprises w/ generative AI education & immersive learning experiences. Bridging communities thru decentralized tech & transformative innovation.

prior:
@AmEx @PayPal @Citi
@BlockchainU founder

@dSocialCommons podcast
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Curious that what looked like fragmentation now reads as specialization

Google optimizes tempo Cognition optimizes insight

Agent RFT shows insight can train itself.

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Learning to Learn: How Agent RFT Completes What Windsurf's Split Began
Robert Schwentker AI Education Strategist | From blockchain to AI: helping leaders navigate tech transitions | 25+ years, 200K+ learners November 10, 2025 This is Article 5 in an ongoing series explor...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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?

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Agent Economics: When Machines Become Primary Web Consumers
Inside Web Discovery Summit 2025, Parag Agrawal explains why publisher relationships must rebuild from infrastructure up Executive Summary: This article documents the afternoon panel from Web Discover...
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November 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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.

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Half-Life Problem: Why Search Indices Became Archaeology
Inside Web Discovery Summit 2025, Or Lenchner and Paddy Srinivasan reveal the temporal crisis forcing search architecture to rebuild from scratch Executive Summary: Or Lenchner Bright Data and Paddy S...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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.

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When Agents Shop: Inside PayPal's Architecture of Autonomous Commerce
When AI agents became shoppers, something fundamental shifted. Not the interface -- the topology of commerce itself.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
“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”

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#AI #agents #infrastructure
Stateful Futures: Letta, Intuit & Architecture of Perpetual Agents
A decade of cloud computing trained organizations to think stateless: spin up, execute, discard. Now the grammar inverts.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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

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Design After Design: Field Notes from Interface Frontier
Tonight the powder room door at Vapi's headquarters unlocks via QR code: a micro-symptom of the evening's theme. Systems that predict your needs while forgetting you might need to leave the room.
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October 16, 2025 at 6:22 AM
.@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 ↓
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Why Boyd Kane's AI vs Software Essay Resonates & the Overlooked Risk Hidden in Deployment Decisions Watched an essay cross 260+ upvotes yesterday with a tone shift worth noting: not hype fati...
Why Boyd Kane's AI vs Software Essay Resonates & the Overlooked Risk Hidden in Deployment Decisions Watched an essay cross 260+ upvotes yesterday with a tone shift worth noting: not hype fatigue or d...
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October 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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.

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Protocols, Not Platforms: Tacit Architecture Behind Agentic Commerce
How Stripe & OpenAI Just Invented the Payment Rail for AI Agents In September 2025, two tech giants architected a solution to a problem most didn't yet recognize: how AI agents transact on behalf of h...
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October 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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.

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OpenAI DevDay 2025: Agents Reach Operational Reality
At OpenAI DevDay 2025, the agent development conversation shifted terrain - from whether agents work to who controls the infrastructure layer that makes them work at scale. The question isn't new.
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October 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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

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Software Development Has Already Changed. Most Haven't Noticed.
Three data points arrived within weeks of each other. Each one unremarkable on its own.
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October 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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

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380 AI Events Signal Shift from 'What If' to 'How To' #SFTechWeek
Executive summary SF Tech Week Oct 6–12 hosts over 1,100 events. 380+ focus on AI.
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October 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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:

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AI Recruiting Conundrum: Using Machines to Help Humans Get Jobs — Alex's Model
What if every candidate who applied actually got an interview? Not a subset. Not the "qualified" ones.
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October 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Model Context Protocol (MCP) update:

* Asynchronous long-running operations
* MCP Registry API
* Server IDs
* Official extensions
* SDK tiering

...all land Nov 2025 - marking MCP’s shift from experiments to backbone for AI integrations.

My thoughts:

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MCP Next Release: From Experiments to Backbone Exec Summary: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is maturing rapidly. The November 2025 release will introduce async operations, stronger scaling… | Robe...
MCP Next Release: From Experiments to Backbone Exec Summary: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is maturing rapidly. The November 2025 release will introduce async operations, stronger scaling foundat...
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September 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Last night @ Frontier Tower:

10 builders showed invisible infra being laid beneath AI agents.

Less "look what AI can do" - more "here's scaffolding we're quietly building."

Commerce layers, auth protocols, data normalizers.

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MCP Demo Night at Frontier Tower SF
A curious convergence at frontiertower last night. (The 16-floor innovation hub in heart of San Francisco is dedicated to advancing deep tech & frontier tech - first node of an inter-city "network sta...
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September 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
.@DrHowardGardner & @AntheaERoberts rethink knowledge work in the age of AI. From dragonfly vision to the second Socratic inversion, the future may belong to question-architects, not answer-providers.

my thoughts: linkedin.com/pulse/when-c...
When Cognitive Giants Rethink Intelligence: Gardner's Radical Vision for the AI Age
Howard Gardner, the Harvard cognitive scientist who revolutionized how the world thinks about intelligence, has arrived at a startling conclusion: most of what schools teach may soon become optional. ...
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September 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
From click-to-buy to cryptographic consent.

Google’s new AP2 protocol could be the missing trust layer for agent-led commerce. My analysis here:

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From Chat to Checkout: How Google’s AP2 Protocol Turns AI Agents into Trusted Shoppers
Executive Summary On September 16, 2025, Google introduced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) with backing from 60+ partners across networks, wallets, crypto, & SaaS. AP2 is an open standard that lets ...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
. @levie.bsky.social

"Imagine the 50 person company where all of a sudden they can act like a 500 person company"

...on AI's leverage effect.

Small teams, big reach changes everything.

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AI Moment Is Here: Why It's Nothing Like Cloud
Unlike the cloud, AI sells itself. Business leaders can experience the value firsthand, shifting the conversation from "if" to "how.
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September 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Agents can unlock the 90% of work stuck in unstructured content, but only if we redesign how we work.

Agent-first design, context engineering, platform literacy.

#BoxWorks 2025 San Francisco @levie Keynote

My recap: www.linkedin.com/pulse/strate...
Strategic Vision: Educational Infrastructure for Intelligent Content
Insights from Aaron Levie's vision for organizational transformation in the age of agents TL;DR: The vast majority of enterprise work involves unstructured data that AI can finally unlock. Success req...
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September 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
BoxWorks VP panel exposed the AI velocity paradox:

🚀 Releases faster than ever

🏢 Enterprises can’t absorb change

Insights: capability frameworks > feature training, platform literacy > silo adoption.
Part 3 of 4 in my BoxWorks 2025 series:

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Executive Reality: Managing AI Velocity in Enterprise Time #BoxWorks
VP Panel: The Innovation Velocity Challenge The BoxWorks VP panel revealed a fundamental tension in enterprise AI adoption: product development moves at unprecedented speed while organizations struggl...
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September 15, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Conversations from the trenches of enterprise AI:

* Integrators debugging MCP servers.
* Banks modeling AI unit costs.
* Peace officers trained in 15 min bursts.
* Consultants building brand voice agents.

The bottleneck isn’t tech...it’s education.

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BoxWorks Expo: Solving the Last Mile of Enterprise AI
Conversations from the trenches of enterprise AI adoption Between keynotes & code lies the messy middle of AI adoption. BoxWorks expo hall revealed the gap between vision & daily implementation realit...
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September 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
87% of orgs piloted AI agents, only 24% have governance. The gap isn’t tech...it’s education imho.

From MCP debugging to 15-min peace officer training, BoxWorks 2025 shows the last mile of enterprise AI.

Article 2 of 4 👉
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w/ @vishalmanohar @ShawnDeines
BoxWorks Expo: Solving the Last Mile of Enterprise AI
Where theory meets the messy reality of implementation 87% of organizations have piloted AI agents. Only 24% have established governance frameworks.
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September 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
BoxWorks 2025 spotlight: protocols like A2A, ADK & MCP shaping intelligent content: content that reasons, remembers & complies.

⚖️ Which workflows in enterprises demand deterministic sequences for compliance?

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@Box @AliArsanjani

@shurrey.bsky.social
BoxWorks 2025: Protocols, Agents & the Dawn of Intelligent Content
Standards create freedom through constraint. Protocols enable spontaneity by removing friction.
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September 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Reposted by Schwentker
Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference by Horace He (Thinking Machines' blog, an AI lab founded by Mira Murati)

Connectionism will cover topics as varied as their research is: from kernel numerics to prompt engineering. Here, they share what they are working on.
Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models. For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT the...
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September 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This is how one signals ones building something different

The choice to focus on determinism isn't randon: it's a direct line to enterprise-grade AI where reliability isn't a feature, it's a requirement

Seems to me they're playing a long game starting w/ trust & repeatability.
September 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Developer education 🧩 is shifting fast

My latest dive: New Playbook for AI Dev Ed

Prediction🔮 Next 6 months we’ll see rise of voice-powered agent-driven content development:

--> new paradigm for how AI 🤖teaches & learns alongside us

#AI #DevEd

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New Playbook for AI Developer Education: From IDE Embeds to Advocacy Engines
Competition for developer mindshare in AI has shifted. The companies that win aren't just building better models: they're building better teachers.
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September 11, 2025 at 7:06 AM