Mark Schellhas

AI Lead at Eidra
Co-founder, Taptics

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

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[GitHub @github]

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[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

Well, didn't expect Palantir being the ones to remind everyone of the obvious traps of frontier-lab reliance.
But here we are.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Our thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty.

1. Your AI sovereignty dictates your institution’s future. Sovereignty is the precondition for choice. Relinquishing sovereignty transfers the future choices of your institution to others, who are likely to exploit it for their gain and your loss.

2. Data retention is your treasure. Transfer it at your own peril. Your ability to win is dictated by your ability to recognize and use your unique edges, and you keep winning by compounding the underlying data to generate new insights. Transferring that data hands over access to your pre-existing winning plays and yields the means of production for new ones.

3. Tokenmaxxing hijacks your value orientation and decreases your institutional fortitude and intelligence. The pursuit of high token usage incentivizes disposable scripts over robust software — with the addictive feeling of false progress. There is a reason why those selling tokens refuse to charge based on value.

4. Controlling your weights is controlling your fate. Weights are the distilled form of hard-won, accumulated institutional knowledge. If you let others control your weights, you are allowing them to migrate the alpha of your business to theirs.

5. There is no contradiction between sovereignty and alpha. The architecture that maximally preserves sovereignty is one that enables institutions to own their tribal knowledge, and to compound it as alpha.

6. Politicizing the technical issues involving sovereignty is what your adversary wants. Techno-politicization is the wellspring of false sovereignty. Techno-politicization drives decisions that seem to reduce dependency, but ultimately limit agency — especially on the battlefield in the West.

7. Real expertise is existential. Allowing politics or favoritism to determine your technical decisions rewards whoever is best at politics, not whoever is right. Listen to those closest to the problems, not those speaking most compellingly about them.

8. Learn from institutions that are winning or that have consistently delivered. Institutions facing existential threats do not have the luxury of making technical decisions based on political preferences.

9. Only listen to institutions, countries, and people who have a proven record of being right. A track record of correctness is the best and only signal for future correctness. Judging something as right or wrong based on who you like is exceedingly misguided.

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

The English always sing: "It's coming home"...
The Germans sing: "We're coming home" 😅

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

@pascalefung This… we’re holding an event in Stockholm to discuss this, would you be open to considering speaking with us?

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

@shebangalang @karpathy @salomon_diei Yup

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

The midjourney pivot is… interesting

[Cassandra Unchained @michaeljburry]

I am a fan of midjourney, but wow. Read until the end.
This is indeed how medicine and health care can be reimagined in this new paradigm of untold processing power.
https://t.co/8mSGxt5fnA

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

Trying this, will post my evals later:

“Work it harder, make it better
Do it faster, makes us stronger
More than ever, hour after hour
Work is never over”

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

Absolute game changing way to prompt agents. I add this to every prompt and have seen internal evals improve by over 23%

"You gotta be
You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser
You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger
You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together
All I know, all I know, love will save the day"

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

One of the top video models, top voice models, top coding models, and best performing harnesses.. @xai is gaining ground… finally! This rate of innovation is crazy. Well done.

[xAI @xai]

Grok TTS delivers the most human-like speech

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

Forget Kaparthy wiki...
Grok build + Apple Notes + Reminders + Calendar is 🤯

@grok #grokbuild

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

@dhh Bravo! It’s really great, website included. You should be proud of how you’ve kept your culture of keeping things simple, despite the temptation of doing otherwise after all these years!

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

@karpathy 🙈

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

what a legend.. and this one applies to most things, even tech/AI today

thinking about the human.. in the loop

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

@PeterDiamandis He says, with text

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

@zilasino “Django - The Data Science tool” a little dramatic there 😅 I’ve used Django, it’s nice, but “data science” never crossed my mind. I still use Rails too though

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

@joemasilotti 🤦‍♂️ Wake up babe, use https://t.co/IqhqvdcYp4 instead, it’s free, and open source.

It’s 2026, this kind of thing should NOT be a paid thing at all (free “until you ship” is not free)

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

@yeab2k Good job! I do love how you’re documenting your process. All the very best to you!

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

Unfortunately history shows that it’s not the best architecture that wins, but the popular one (*with momentum). Look at x86, React, PHP, Windows, etc…

We’re humans at the end of the day: we’ll chase memes, follow the herd, pick the widely-accepted tool…

Most devs aren’t engineers, just programmers reaching for whatever everybody else is using.

But forever is a long time, for sure

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

@LexnLin @perplexity_ai They discovered @_chenglou‘s “future of interfaces” 😂

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

@karpathy LLM doesn't "argue", it simulates argument. Whatever happened to thinking for yourself? (critical thinking included)

[Mark Schellhas @MarkSchellhas]

@ThePrimeagen @chrysb @cursor_ai "usage"