Senior Software Engineer at SpendAi | ex founder https://teapaw.org/t.co/rt2pMm3I6o, founding mts @8090_factory, eng @uwaterloo I ❤️ coding
Seattle
Joined November 2020
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Arjun Krishna retweeted
This is @pocketmodelai
In the video I take Qwen 3.5 0.8B, a model small enough to run on a potato, and teach it to sort voice assistant commands into 16 intents. Out of the box it gets 63%. GPT-6 Luna and Claude Sonnet 5.5 both get 94%.
11 cents of training later, the adapter scores about a point behind the frontier models. On the same test rows it cost less than half of what GPT-6 Luna did and about 1/40 of Claude.
My favorite part is a data row asking for the train schedule to Berkeley. Every model got it “wrong”, including both frontier models, because the dataset itself had labelled it as booking a ticket. Pocket Model shows you every answer next to the data, so you catch problems like that before you train on them.
At the end I hand the whole job to an agent with one paragraph of instructions. It imports the data, fixes the bad labels, trains and evaluates, and reports back about 12 minutes later. The app updates live while it works, so you can watch your agent and step in at any point.
If you’re paying a frontier API for a narrow, repetitive job, you can probably own a small model that does it just as well.
youtube.com/watch?v=F747Xq2m…
Arjun Krishna retweeted
Not sure who needs to hear this, but being everywhere isn't leadership.
It actually makes you the bottleneck.
Arjun Krishna retweeted
The natural reaction when you tell somebody that you work on the weekends is "damn that sucks".
I think less than 1% of people working weekends do it because they absolutely love their work.
I like the Steve Jobs quote
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
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Feels like skating
I've found that many ambitious young people 15-25 will "grind" to make more money.
Money is a resource and can be very useful.
But there is no better feeling in the world than waking up excited to work because you actually enjoy it.
It feels like play.
teapaw.org/blakeandersonw/status/…
Arjun Krishna retweeted
Introducing Berkeley Demo Night: Berkeley's biggest demo night of the year, with Pear VC, which just raised a $333M Fund V to back people like you!
On November 5, come see what Berkeley's sharpest builders are building, or even demo something of your own
BerkeleyDemoNight.com
Arjun Krishna retweeted
We're bringing Gagan Biyani (Founder of The Horowitz Andreessen Academy) to Berkeley
Gagan will share his journey founding Udemy, raising over $80M across Sprig and Maven, and starting his new venture with 150 of Berkeley's most ambitious students
RSVP link below. Limited spots
Arjun Krishna retweeted
Signups are now open for @LiteLLM Handoff, our two-week workshop for developers building cloud agents.
You’ll work with the LiteLLM team to build an agent and deploy an internal beta in your own cloud.
The workshop is remote and limited to 50 developers, October 26 – November 9, 2026
