Kurt Schrader

Founder and CEO of @Korey_AI and @Shortcut. We're building a workspace for agents and people to build software in a words first world - give it a try

[Kurt Schrader @kurt]

https://t.co/WNqClFJ7Ev

[Varadh Jain @varadh]

We' over think making decks way too much

Masa is back with his masterclass

[Kurt Schrader @kurt]

"Hey team, can I interest you in spending the next week trying out the 75 new code diffing tools that have launched this month?"

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Or the LLM token bill

[Josh Cohenzadeh @jshchnz]

When your CFO looks at the Datadog bill

[Kurt Schrader @kurt]

His team just started using AI in earnest two months ago, btw.

[Kurt Schrader @kurt]

I had a random person at my coworking space (who's heard me talking in meetings for the last year) ask me yesterday about how we were tracking and keeping down token costs, because it's a problem at his company.

This is happening everywhere right now.

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

UBS says 60% of companies now watching AI budgets are moving to cheaper models and open-source Chinese models

The pressure is coming from extreme bills, including users spending up to $35K/month, teams exceeding quotas by 200%, and companies cutting internal AI tools from 5 to 2.

Companies are not abandoning AI, they are using model routing, which sends easy tasks to cheaper models and saves premium models for hard reasoning, code, and long-context work.

Chinese open-source models such as Qwen, DeepSeek, MiniMax, GLM, and Kimi now fit the enterprise cost curve because they can be run locally or used through cloud catalogs.

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[Kurt Schrader @kurt]

Is "Watergate wasn't so bad and we do worse things on a regular basis" just something that we're saying out loud now?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

[Kurt Schrader @kurt]

Good stuff in here. As a parent of a 10-year-old I see kids who already have phones and who are completely zoned out.

[Royce Branning @rbfasho]

https://t.co/NY6UYlBuM2

[Kurt Schrader @kurt]

4. Cost of living is everything.

It's the one thread that everyone comes back to in all of my group chats, regardless of where they are in the lives.

Something is clearly broken.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday.

1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.

2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark.

3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost.

4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper.

5. The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something.

6. Don't fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won.

7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn't ask permission. He took the field.

The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.

[Kurt Schrader @kurt]

This definitely lowers the floor for getting started but it will interesting to see where the ceiling is on this vs other providers.

[Anurag Goel @anuraggoel]

The first nail in the coffin of every sandbox-only startup:

[Kurt Schrader @kurt]

Regardless of what you think of him, you have to admit that this is easily one of the best "we won a championship" speeches you've ever heard.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here is Mamdani's entire speech at the Knicks parade, which is easily the best speech I've ever heard at an event of this sort

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here is Mamdani's entire speech at the Knicks parade, which is easily the best speech I've ever heard at an event of this sort

[Kurt Schrader @kurt]

@MeridaMX2025 Yes, very

[Kurt Schrader @kurt]

GLM-5.2 is "cancel your Claude subscription if we don't get Fable back" good.

Can't help but be mad that we're giving away our lead to the Chinese models because of some petty government pissing contest.

[Kurt Schrader @kurt]

@anothercohen 🤷‍♂️

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@zeeg The hundred+ bot generated responses to their post don’t help clear it up for you? 🫤

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@leopardracer @FactoryAI Literally everyone is talking about this.

[Kurt Schrader @kurt]

Honestly very funny X News summary:

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@mikejulian The stories I could tell about a company called "Clubhouse" and the millions (!) of people that couldn't be bothered to read a single word on a website.

[Kurt Schrader @kurt]

@cnnrjcbsn Digging up that coal.

[Kurt Schrader @kurt]

Even setting aside the way that AI messaging is currently landing with normal people, do we all really want to work in a "software factory" going forward?

There must be a more humanist way to approach all of this.

[Kurt Schrader @kurt]

@christkv Updated the post, I meant "software factory"