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Builder & AI education 🏗️ @at_proto #mpp 6 series #BlueskyCommunityVoices podcast w/ @bluesky pre-launch. @BlockchainU founder. xPayPal 📍 Oakland
IETF's AIPREF is at draft v6 — users will be able to say "don't train on me." Meanwhile: 50k machine operators on ATProto, 1 disclosure record. (h/t @schwentker.sandboxlabs.ai) Consent infrastructure for content is outpacing identity infrastructure for agents. Shields before labels.
65 teams. 1 day. 1 signal: the frontier is the 🚪gate. At @awscloud's Loop Engineering Hackathon w/ @tokensandai agents planned, acted, observed & self-corrected. Autonomy around denial, agents w/ wallets & budgets, verification as product. My 5 picks: linkedin.com/pulse/loop-e...
Loop Engineering Hackathon: 65 Self-Directing Agents Tell Us About What's Next
The frontier of innovation, one Friday in San Francisco Today I spent the day at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Builder Loft in San Francisco for the Loop Engineering Hackathon * with a deceptively sim...
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New post: when my deterministic engine disagrees w/ its own source methodologies, which one's wrong? 4 failure modes wearing one mask🎭. What could possibly go wrong? Evidence fidelity & decision fidelity don't always move together & interesting cases live where they split. 🍨 lnkd.in/p/g59-7EDC
Full house at 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀' 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁, 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗮, hosted by Torrenegra Co with OpenAI's Applied AI team, Apoorv Jha & Sai… | Robert Schwentker
Full house at 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀' 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁, 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗮, hosted by Torrenegra Co with OpenAI's Applied AI team, Apoorv Jha & Sai Mandhan https://luma.com/u23xrvh6 Founders & engineers brought a...
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When agents show up at a service door, whose credential do they carry & who decides if it's enough? Spent an evening w/ @okta @auth0 @trySkyfire @Experian @Mastercard & Blackhawk Network watching that question play out live linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7479738443355332608
When Agents Knock, Which Credential Answers? | Robert Schwentker
Field notes from an evening on agentic commerce with Okta, Auth0, Skyfire, Experian, Mastercard, Blackhawk Network and others. The demos worked. And signaled the dawn of an agentic era where agents h...
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Wrote up last night's @PayPal AI Innovation Meetup. Sold as token-burn cuts w/ context plugins. Real Q: not can agents buy, but are they allowed to. Coherence not capability is the constraint. & trust has no rail yet. linkedin.com/feed/update/...
When Agent Is Buyer, Who Owns Last Mile? | Robert Schwentker
AI Agents Can Shop, But Who Lets Them Pay? PayPal's AI Innovation Meetup focused on lowering token burn, but the debate quickly shifted from cost to permission: Who authorizes an AI agent to transact...
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Artiji, quietly open. Jyotish charts & election timings for founders & world citizens. SF Bay & beyond. When to ship, when to wait, what the sky holds for the moment. Computed precisely, read with care.
Harness Engineering Hackathon by Senso.ai team 77 submissions, one brief: make agents act. strongest made agents transact. once an agent prices its own work & sells to another agent, the web changes shape. field notes: linkedin.com/feed/update/...
When Agents Start Paying Each Other | Robert Schwentker
Agents stopped waiting for instructions. They started quoting prices. I watched the six finalist demos from Saroop Bharwani’s Context Engineering Hackathon in person, then read across 77 submissions...
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The room used to be an auto shop. You could still see where the lifts bolted into the floor. Workato converted it into a living lab & 300+ IT leaders gathered to ask the hardest question: what does it actually take to put AI agents to work? @workato.bsky.social linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Agents Hit Their Gateway Moment | Robert Schwentker
The room used to be an auto shop. You could still see where the lifts bolted into the floor. Workato converted it into a living lab & on a Tuesday afternoon in SF, roughly 300 IT leaders gathered (s...
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OpenAI's ClawFather @steipete #MSBuild @github.com "Models are good enough now. Limiting factor is imagination." Two nights, one thesis. No better model required. 🦞 linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Clawfather Says Models Are Done. Imagination Is Next.
Two OpenClaw appearances at Microsoft Build, one repeated claim, and the strange fact of who kept saying it. Across two nights of Build week, the fastest growing open source project in history appeare...
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Fascinating: universities don’t lack open data. They lack developer programs. Research output is already public, structured & machine-readable. Missing: docs, portals, OAuth & a real front door.
API Evangelist@apievangelist.com · 2mo agoI pulled the API surface for 219 of the world’s top-ranked universities — set that I built into the API Evangelist network. Which schools publish the most? Which countries show up? And what kind of APIs do universities actually have? apievangelist.com/blog/2026/06...
parallel.ai An AI company, built a museum to the web before AI. Spent months gathering artifacts of a web its own agents never touched. @p0 Museum of the Human Web, 238 King St SF. Wrote up what it's like to stand inside that #contradiction 🔗 linkedin.com/pulse/relics...
Museum of the Human Web: Relics of When Humans Did This Alone
Field report from inside an AI company's museum to the web before AI luma.com/h85fumdt 238 King Street, San Francisco, late afternoon on the final day.
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Bands seen 👁️🗨️ PUBLIQuartet: SF Artes Vocales: LA Chucho Valdes: Cuba Guaco: Venezuela Gamelan Sekar Jaya: Bali Dave Brubeck: St Louis Al Hirt: Houston Grand Combo: Puerto Rico Isaac Delgado: Cuba Malang Music Group: Rajashtan Santana: Detroit Anacaona: Havana female orchestra (roadie Cuba, NYC tours)
Tessa Brown@tessa.germnetwork.com · 3mo agointroduce yourself with 11 bands / musicians you've seen live (in order) Blink-182 The Offspring Wheatus Fall Out Boy Jagged Edge Nine Inch Nails The Old Kanye SZA Alice Smith Carl Cox Octave One
first bay area @atproto.com @ @trueventures.com last night. clearest signal wasnt hype, it was working software. bluesky may be the visible surface but AT proto is becoming the substrate. discovery, identity, structured data & agents. 1/7 linkedin.com/posts/schwen...
AT Protocol as Infrastructure: Field Notes from True Ventures | Robert Schwentker
Went to the first bay area AT protocol meetup @ true ventures this week & walked out convinced of one thing. Bluesky is the visible surface, but AT proto is quietly becoming the substrate. Three buil...
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Come watch me babble about @atstore.fyi
Alex@alex.bsky.team · 3mo agoBay Area! this is tonight! luma.com/ze1qqe4k atmo.rsvp/p/did:plc:vm... See you at 501 3rd St in SF at 5:30! there will be food and soft drinks! there may be after-drinks! come see @pfrazee.com and @tessa.germnetwork.com and @knowtheory.net and @schwentker.sandboxlabs.ai and @hipstersmoothie.com !
@atstore.fyi answers the question "what can I actually do with my Atmosphere account?" @hipstersmoothie.com
@schwentker.sandboxlabs.ai built a labeler for astrology related posts. artiji.xyz is an app for astrological charts built with an astrological lexicon
Artiji · Reflection Scaffold for Founder Decisions
Pre-mortem scaffolding for forming cofounder pairs. Vedic vocabulary, plainspoken founder language, and honest tiers for exact, approximate, or unknown birth time.
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Bay Area! this is tonight! luma.com/ze1qqe4k atmo.rsvp/p/did:plc:vm... See you at 501 3rd St in SF at 5:30! there will be food and soft drinks! there may be after-drinks! come see @pfrazee.com and @tessa.germnetwork.com and @knowtheory.net and @schwentker.sandboxlabs.ai and @hipstersmoothie.com !
Bay Area atproto May '26 Meetup · Luma
Get in the car[/BART/Muni/tandem e-bike], we're building the future of the social web! AT Protocol is the open social layer that powers Bluesky and 1000+ more…
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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!
Alex@alex.bsky.team · 3mo agoatproto 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!
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!
Bay Area atproto May '26 Meetup
Get in the car[/BART/Muni/tandem e-bike], we're building the future of the social web! AT Protocol is the open social layer that powers Bluesky and 100+ more apps. Join us to learn more about shipping...
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🧵 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/...
Governance Before Gravity | Robert Schwentker
Twas January 2011. SOMA. 2nd floor of a corner building. Lean Startup workshop before the book was even out. At the time the language was MVPs, innovation accounting, build-measure-learn. Felt like a...
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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/... 🧵
Day 119 of the Singularity: Unveiling Stripe's New Primitives for AI | Robert Schwentker
The economy is currently being redesigned for a customer who doesn't have a pulse. At 8:43 a.m. inside Moscone, PUBLIQuartet played contemporary string compositions to a room so over-capacity that ha...
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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
codream.ai — A New Learning Experience
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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 🧵
How to Set Up Your Own PDS: An Edo Guide for Citizen Builders | Robert Schwentker
Most of what you post online lives in someone else's building. I built my own instead. A small Personal Data Server (PDS) on ATProto: – runs in a Docker container – reachable through an outbound-...
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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
Stripe Sessions 2026 | Talks
Stripe Sessions is a 2-day, in-person event with discussions about important internet economy trends, the future of commerce, and Stripe product updates. Register now to secure your spot.
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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
AI Dev 26 x SF | AI Developer Conference
Join us for a transformative experience in building with AI in San Francisco on April 28-29, 2026.
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