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.
Projects
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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Fugue Mechanism Lab
Small agent societies with their own currency, message board, and VMs. A testbed for all kinds of experiments, currently how well we can reconstruct what a group of agents did from its logs.
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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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Alpicool BLE Control
A macOS controller that changes my sleep-cooling box temperature overnight and records its status over Bluetooth.
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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.
Writing
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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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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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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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.