Mikio Braun's Blog
As with most things related with AI, coding agents is a hot topic and there's a lot of different opinions floating around on the Internet. Some say "coding is essentially solved". Others say it's all...
In my last post I wrote about my experiences of using coding agents to use data science and how their "software engineering" persona didn't perform well at interpreting success or dealing with the...
Recently I tried using a coding agent for doing data science work, and I was surprised how much it struggled. It didn't struggle with the actual coding work. In fact, it was really good at it, and...
The most questions I got on my last post was how my tech stack exactly looked like for me to use Claude Code whenever inspiration strikes: Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB of RAM, 1TB SSD in my living room...
Over the past few months I started exploring AI coding agents, and piece by piece I've created a setup where I can now ship on my phone, from an ICE train over their flaky WiFi, going from idea to...
End of 2017 I moved away from my old blog - after more than a hundred posts, spanning 12 years. I went on to a wordpress hosted blog (margint.blog), then played with substack, and so on. But still,...
Hello Fellow Readers, I've set up a new blog at margint.blog and will continue posting there (hopefully more frequently than I did in the past two years). This blog here will stay around...
First posted on July 30, 2016 on medium . This version contains minor corrections and a few links. When I enrolled in Computer Science in 1995, Data Science didn’t exist yet, but a lot of the...
So this was definitely a long radio silence! Since I blogged last time, a lot has happened. I've quit my PostDoc job and joined Zalando , a big (the biggest?) European fashion retailer (revenue in...
In case you haven't heard yet, Data Science is all the craze. Courses, posts, and schools are springing up everywhere. However, every time I take a look at one of those offerings, I see that a lot of...