Marko Stokić
Munich

Marko Stokić is a

Marko Stokić is a generalist.

I had more ideas than skills. Now I have a second brain, a chief of staff and a dock full of agents. This is my actual desk. Click around.

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Good at everything. Specialist at nothing.

I was always a little jealous of specialists. They could take an idea all the way to something real. I couldn’t, at least not alone.

I had ideas for apps and tools all the time. I could write the business plan, and then I got stuck. I taught myself Python more than once, then JavaScript, on every course platform I could find. It was never enough to actually build the thing.

So most of my ideas stayed ideas. Here is how that changed.

Marko on a stage chair with a microphone, explaining something with his hands, at the Open AGI Summit
On stage at the Open AGI Summit. Explaining things was always the easy part.

Every choice closed a door.

Scroll down my path.

  1. Frankfurt, 1993

    Every path is open.

    You start with all of them. Nobody tells you that each choice quietly closes the others.

  2. Frankfurt and Milan

    I picked finance.

    Finance in Frankfurt, then business school in Milan. Science, engineering, design and film moved a little further away. I didn’t notice. That is how it works.

  3. Wayra, Telefónica’s venture arm

    Venture capital taught me to learn fast.

    I invested in early-stage teams and had to understand a new kind of enterprise tech every week. Maybe my one real talent: getting to 50% understanding of almost anything, very quickly. In VC, that is about what a generalist can hope for.

  4. Blockchain

    Then I jumped into decentralized tech.

    The Bitcoin whitepaper pulled me in. Ethereum kept me there: a credibly neutral system matters even more once AI agents act for us. Still, 50% is not enough to build something alone.

  5. 2025

    Then agents brought the other 50%.

    I bring the direction and the judgment. Agents bring the depth. Science, engineering, design, film: every closed door opened again.

  6. Today

    AI engineer at Blockbrain.

    I work in the Frontier team of a Series A startup in Munich, directly with the CTO. The finance graduate ships production software now.

Then the generalist got specialists.

This is the other 50%. Every specialist I could never afford is now an agent, a skill or a hook on my machine. I bring the direction, the taste and the final call. They bring the depth.

These are the real names on my machine. Most of them I built myself.

SpecialistBeforeNow
Chief of staff/gmIdeas and open tasks scattered in my head.A briefing every morning: open loops, project health, drafts that wait for me.
Memorysecond brainExplaining myself to every new chat.About 240 notes on how I write, decide and think. Every agent reads them first.
EngineeringClaude CodeA developer I could not afford.One agent that thinks hard, one that builds fast. Often several sessions at once.
DesignDesign DNAA brief, an agency and a month.My taste in one file. Every agent designs with it.
Review/pr-panelHoping it works.Independent reviewers vote on every change before it ships.
Writingvoice-lintA blank page, or text that sounds like a robot.A hook that refuses to save anything that doesn’t sound like me.
Videovideo studioSomebody else’s job.HTML scenes, a voice track and a script that cuts on the pauses.
Researchnewsletter digestWeekends of reading.An agent reads my newsletters and keeps only what is worth my time.

I want everyone to feel what I feel right now.

Endless options. Every path open again.

You don’t need my job title for it. Start where I started, in this order.

  1. Build your second brain.

    A folder of plain notes that every agent reads before it starts: how you write, what you decided and why, what you believe. You hardly write it yourself. You drop in sources, and the agent files them and keeps the links current.

    Mine has about 240 notes, from how I write to my favorite recipes.

    Start with Karpathy’s LLM Wiki idea file

    A sketch of my brain. Hover the notes.

  2. Build your chief of staff.

    One command every morning. Mine checks my projects, my open loops, my inbox and my brain, then tells me what needs me today. Everything else waits.

    Mine is one skill file and a list of my projects. That is the whole trick.

    GM Marko. Here is your day.

    • 3Open loopsclose before you start
    • 1Drafts waitingAI Psychosis weekly, ready to review
    • 6Brain inboxnew sources to read and file
    • 2Newslettersworth your time, 14 skipped
    • okProjectsall sites up, one traffic spike

    An example morning, not today’s numbers.

  3. Then read my Claude Code guide.

    Everything I teach in workshops, on one free page: what to install, how to brief an agent, and how to stop fighting it.

    Open the Claude Code guide

things I built

Things I built.

Proof beats claims. Everything here is real, most of it is live, and I built all of it with agents. Some of it I retired, which also counts.

  1. Screenshot of Eternity

    In TestFlight

    Eternity

    Every family is a constellation.

    An iOS app where every relative becomes a star, and their stories stay in the sky. A team of AI agents runs product, design and marketing with me.

    Why: I want my kids to hear my parents’ stories the way I heard them.

    eternity.family
  2. Screenshot of Nobel Explained

    Live

    Nobel Explained

    Every Nobel Prize since 2020, actually explained.

    Each prize is a short course at three depths: five-year-old, undergrad, expert. A guide called Lumen keeps asking why, and you guess before you read. The 2026 prizes went up within days, with a short video for every depth. Facts come from the official Nobel API, and a wrong fact fails the build.

    Why: The prizes are announced every October and quietly slip by. I wanted to understand them.

    nobelexplained.com

    A telescope made of ice, in one minute

  3. Screenshot of AI Psychosis

    Live

    AI Psychosis

    It agreed with everything.

    An awareness site on AI psychosis with a private self-check, plus a weekly research watch that turns new papers and news into one clear argument.

    Why: Chatbots are built to agree. For some people that turns a passing thought into a fixed belief.

    ai-psychosis.info

    Watch #13, 68 seconds

  • Live

    Design DNA

    Stop re-explaining your taste to every AI.

    Click through real fonts, colors and shapes. Get one DESIGN.md file that every coding agent reuses, so your projects stop looking like everyone else’s.

  • Open source

    ui-review

    Point at the thing that is wrong.

    A Claude Code plugin. Click any element on the page you are building, pin a comment, and copy a located punch list straight back to your agent.

  • Private tool

    Session Desk

    A control room for parallel AI sessions.

    I run many coding agents at once. This page tells me which one needs me, in plain words. Designed with rules from power-plant control rooms: quiet by default, color only when it means something.

  • Screenshot of RateMyClaudemd

    Live

    RateMyClaudemd

    Share and rate CLAUDE.md files.

    A small community site for the instruction files that steer coding agents. Built and shipped in one sitting.

  • Personal

    Gym tracker

    A gym log with a coach that changes my next session.

    Offline first, runs on my phone, costs nothing to run. Once a week an AI coach reads my notes and adjusts the plan.

  • Seasonal

    Oktoberfest bot

    A bot that finds open Oktoberfest tent reservations.

    It checks seven tent booking portals and pings me on Telegram when an evening slot opens. Munich problems need Munich solutions.

  • Private tool

    Newsletter digest

    An agent reads my newsletters so I read less.

    It has its own inbox, reads ten newsletters, and puts the few items worth my time into my morning briefing. One click turns an item into a note in my brain.

  • Retired

    Tito

    A voice in my menu bar that started my workday.

    A Mac app that asked me hard questions every morning and refused to do the work for me. I retired it when I stopped needing it. That is also a result.

writing & talks

Writing and talks.

Two years of one argument: AI agents need trust you can verify, privacy that is real, and memory that belongs to the user. Plus the occasional career advice.

Columns and essays

Elsewhere

On stage

Marko speaking into a microphone on a conference stage

Trustless agents. Keynote, ETHDam Amsterdam, May 2025. How AI agents can sign, settle and prove what they did.

free stuff

Everything I learn, I give away.

I love mentoring and I love free education. So whatever I figure out ends up somewhere you can use it.

Marko presenting to a room of students

Mentoring

Students and career switchers who want to work in AI: send me what you are trying to build and where you are stuck. I did the switch without a computer science degree, so I know which parts feel impossible and which only look that way.

Write me

For teams

I run workshops for companies that want their people building with agents, not just chatting with them. A keynote, a half-day diagnostic and a build day.

Ask about a workshop

more about me

More about me, if you want it.

What I believe, where I was wrong, and what I do when I’m not building.

Three things I believe

All my beliefs, tested every week

  • Don’t trust. Verify.

    Agents will soon move money and sign things for us. They need identity, limits and proof, not promises. I have written about this for two years, and I apply it to my own agents first.

  • Prompts are suggestions. Code is enforcement.

    A rule in a prompt makes a mistake rarer. A hook, a test or a gate makes it impossible. When a rule really matters, it belongs in code.

  • Ownership is the answer.

    Capitalism rewards owners. Most people under 40 own almost nothing, and AI will widen that gap before anything closes it. That is the crack I watch most closely.

Where I changed my mind

I write my beliefs down and check them against the news every week. Sometimes the news wins. Here are four times it did. Tap a card to see what I think now.

When I’m not building

  • Fermenting

    Kombucha, sauerkraut and whatever else fits in a jar. The kombucha is already great.

  • Bullet chess and SciFi

    Three-minute chess when my brain needs a fight. A hammock and Alastair Reynolds when it doesn’t.

  • Astronomy

    The live course I wanted ran in a US time zone. So my agents built me one.

  • What stays scarce

    If AI can make almost everything, what stays scarce? I don’t buy “taste”. I think it is a category nobody has named yet.

Your turn.

You don’t need to become technical. You need to start. Build your second brain this weekend, then fix one annoying thing in your week. If you get stuck, write me.

marko@stokic.ai