Data Scientist in Berlin
Former Bard College prof
For my after-work alter-ego, see @elstersen.bsky.social
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Arseny Khakhalin
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This is nuts. The only reason to do this is the cruelty and the racism. It will actively harm the U.S. economy. We're not talking about undocumented migrant workers here. These are legal PERMANENT residents.
As a product supply guy, I love this story (can liven any presentation on demand forecasting)
Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.
Brandon Friedman
Arseny Khakhalin
Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.
Scaling coding agents beyond simple tasks...
- Write a prd.md (goals, not implementation details)
- Pull prd into Claude Code. Chat about high-level architecture and interfaces (no code). Save to spec.md.
- Pull in spec. Have agent write tests.
- Pull in prd + spec. Have agent write implementation.
Fast-forward less than a year and a 4b open-weight model (Qwen3.5-4b) can do this now, albeit with some tweaking and offloading easier parts of the task to a Python wrapper. Now I can probably afford to put up a public demo (coming soon).
What comes next? Hopefully lots of new adventures, but more on it soon :)
Arseny Khakhalin
Today I'm saying goodbye to hylogic.com - a wonderful consulting company for automation in product supply. I learned a ton, it was a great adventure, and the only reason I'm leaving is that they are in Warsaw, and I'm in Berlin 🥹 It's very hard to effect change while fully remote. But it was fun!
Not sure we want to be less polarized. Also who gets to decide on policies like this? But it's an interesting thought.
Gordon
I love how when a professional writer says that they write with AI it means something approximately opposite to what a rando would assume it means
Videogames (learning to play a new video game) as an unexpected frontier. Half-way between robotics and symbolic reasoning? A question of hardware?
Wow the regional split in Paris mayoral election!! Not every sports rivalry shows that level of partisanship!
The overall left-right split is due to the dominant wind direction of course (I kid you not - read this thread:
bsky.app/profile/elst...
) But still, very impressive and rather unusual!