AI Cafe: Becoming An AI Power User: Timeless Principles For Understanding And Leveraging AI
AI Cafe: Becoming An AI Power User: Timeless Principles For Understanding And Leveraging AI
Beginner friendly!
If you already use ChatGPT, Claude, or other AI tools and want to take your understanding to the next level, this talk is for you. We’ll break down AI from first principles in a way that will stay useful even as the tools, models, and best practices keep changing. Rather than focusing on short-lived tricks, we’ll build durable mental models for understanding what AI is doing, how to work with it more effectively, and how to think about the next wave of AI products and agents.
Topics we’ll cover:
The anatomy of AI systems and how models process information.
What tokens are and what happens when you send a message to an AI tool or agent.
Context management, memory, and sub-agents.
The differences between models, harnesses, tools, skills, and connectors.
Agenda - AI Networking
8:45 - 9:30 am • Coffee and Socialize
9:30- 10:30 am • Talk, Demo, Q&A
July 23rd, 2026
Jonathan Schwartz is the founder and CEO of GLIF, a blockchain-based application that automates loans to large data center providers globally and has processed billions of dollars in value since 2018.
He is a full-stack developer with more than 15 years of industry experience, and over the last two years has been building custom AI agents to reshape how he builds software, operates his business, and manages his personal life. Before founding GLIF, Jonathan taught software development at a coding bootcamp in New York.
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