Zeno Mercer

Head of Robotics & AI Research. ROBO Global | TMX | Interwoven Ventures

[Zeno Mercer @Zenomercer]

I had similar takeaways to @satyanadella below after the @HumanXCo conference in my April 15 piece HumanX 2026 AI Conference Takeaways: The Gap Is Widening.

"There are now two types of companies in the world:

The first treats headcount AND agentic workflows + token usage/optimization as equally important inputs into how the business runs.

The second is still in discovery, without a real AI strategy. The gap between them is widening by the quarter."

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[Zeno Mercer @Zenomercer]

@mignano I would say now more than ever - the crossover between enterprise and consumer are going to completely merge in a federated, but collaborative ecosystem.

Best practices for all, in the way individuals prefer to work, in environments enterprises will allow.

[Zeno Mercer @Zenomercer]

@mignano I pitched a primitive version of this for my USV analyst application back in 2017!

Timing DOES matter =P

[NBA @NBA]

OG ANUNOBY WITH THE PUTBACK.

KNICKS COMPLETE THE 29-PT COMEBACK FOR THE WIN.

LARGEST COMEBACK IN NBA FINALS HISTORY 🤯

[Zeno Mercer @Zenomercer]

Overheard New York as someone slams their laptop shut at a coffee shop:

“Thank Claude”

(Instead of Thank God)

[Zeno Mercer @Zenomercer]

@IntCyberDigest @grok on a scale of 1/10, historically, how bad is this?

[Zeno Mercer @Zenomercer]

@Dan_Jeffries1 @ylecun Does this mean AI will create more “necessity to work” to raise quality of life? Seems wrong.

We look at low unemployment as the ideal state when arguable it’s not.

This also assumes AI hits some plateau in digital and physical world…

Is it work? Or vibe-vocation?

[Brian Halligan @bhalligan]

No matter what kind of company you are...start making your internal company data legible to AI. Today.

As a founder, you are essentially building two versions of your company: the one humans work in and the digital twin that AI agents navigate to do the heavy lifting for you.

[Zeno Mercer @Zenomercer]

Important to note that some additional sound heard in the first video came from the escorting (and filming) helicopter.

Side note: learned that this heliport where Blade operates now has been here since 1956!

[Zeno Mercer @Zenomercer]

Reflecting on the @jobyaviation S4 EVTOL test flight yesterday… awesome to witness. Check my video to see POV.

Quieter w/ less vibration, no exhaust, better cabin layout will be amazing.

And for airport xfers? Blade takes less time than just getting into the Holland Tunnel.

[Zeno Mercer @Zenomercer]

@nbaschez Yes and…

the avg user (personal or enterprise) is not going to want to bop around Claude, codex, local and sovereign ai cloud.

Testing out a system that self optimizes (and tries its hardest) to ensure compliance + continuity of the latter 2.

Goal of “only” the latter 2.

[Zeno Mercer @Zenomercer]

Purposeful friction can be wonderful.

[Olivia Moore @omooretweets]

A consumer software rule that has proven pretty true over the past decade:

The more slick the onboarding, the further from PMF

Why? More beautiful flow typically = more setup needed from the user

Consumers need to be able to pick up and use a product - they have no patience!

[Zeno Mercer @Zenomercer]

@wintonARK @BrunoMars TLDR; we shouldn’t just reward the bot swarm that has the fastest time to task completion to rule the roost.

[Zeno Mercer @Zenomercer]

@wintonARK @BrunoMars Was thinking this very thing today as my agents begin to resource-maxx for themselves and for me.

Watching it operate makes me realize that things will have to change at massive scale to adopt to highly adaptable and agile agents that are resource efficient and token hungry.

[Zeno Mercer @Zenomercer]

@chamath But then… again, that wasn’t a winning trade to play when you call it early and the market has to appear and adjust.

[Zeno Mercer @Zenomercer]

@chamath I’ve been saying this since 2019.

[Zeno Mercer @Zenomercer]

It’s a bot make bot world out there.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

This was an incredible moment for me because of what it taught me.

He showed me what looked like a chip schematic.

Me: “what chip is this?”
Elon: “this is not a chip. It’s the factory layout. It’s a machine that makes machines.”

I’ve taken that with me ever since.

[Zeno Mercer @Zenomercer]

@omooretweets 🫣

[Zeno Mercer @Zenomercer]

@romainhuet Aka I have Gstack hook that connects to codex for review in Claude code.

[Zeno Mercer @Zenomercer]

@romainhuet Wait - I’ve been doing this for a bit without a plugin. What are the advantages of this vs just setting it up manually?