Mark Schröder

I build tools and systems, mostly involving AI. I’m interested in AI safety and the game theory of how humans and digital agents coordinate and organize through shared digital systems. Feel free to reach out if any of this is relevant to you.

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Work

Knowing what to search for

Search over large amounts of data works well now. The bigger problem is that an agent often doesn't know there is something to search for, so it needs a map of what it knows.

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Growing our own Hugging Face incident

Small agent societies we fully control, to run all kinds of experiments on. First up: how well can we reconstruct what a group of agents did from its logs?

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Watcher

A general-purpose watcher primitive: a small model monitors a stream of text or visual data and triggers an action for a person, an agent, or another system.

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The dictation shortcut I use all day

I wanted fast, private dictation on my Mac. This little app has become how I write most of my text.

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Building a sleep cooling system for a fraction of the price

A €200 water-cooled mattress built from an Alpicool camping fridge, a 5 W pump, and a local macOS BLE controller.

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AutoAnki

A desktop app that turns notes, screenshots, and study material into Anki cards I review before exporting.

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Canvas Lab

A tiny local design canvas for wireframing with Codex or Claude: chat on the left, live browser preview on the right.

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Don't sleep on this: 2024 edition

Why scaling laws made me update toward much faster AI progress.

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Could our greatest invention be our last?

We let markets decide which technologies get built. An early essay on why that stops working once the downside is extinction.

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About Me

Now: AI Lead at Needs since late 2025. Building digital coworkers in a team of three.
Before: Bachelor's thesis at Audi on LLM tooling for requirements management. Two years as a research assistant at the WZL, RWTH Aachen.
Study: Still finishing the Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen at RWTH Aachen.
From: Schleswig-Holstein → Aachen → Vienna.
Languages: DE / EN

Otherwise

Outside of work I kitesurf, play volleyball, dive, read (lately a lot of ancient history), and build whatever catches my interest. Spent six months on Work & Travel in New Zealand, back in 2020.