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Martin Elstner @martin.elstner.dev · 15/06/2026

Den Optimismus der Statistik kann ich nicht ganz teilen, auch wenn es sicher weniger Schlimm ist als in Berlin

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Martin Elstner @martin.elstner.dev · 09/04/2026

As autistic German (having paperwork on both), I was surprised by the scoring. Or the test is broken

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Martin Elstner @martin.elstner.dev · 08/12/2025

Think of Alex and Palantir what ever you want; this is probably the best 3D-chess move you could make...

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Martin Elstner @martin.elstner.dev · 30/11/2025

Creative work/parenting 2025 festive edition: ChatGPT creates the Mandala for K3 and you need Gemini nano banana to get the spelling right.

AI generated mandala coloring page with a spelling error from ChatGPT, Gemini adjusted the image and corrects the error

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Martin Elstner @martin.elstner.dev · 27/11/2025

It's much, much better if you start with an image and let it do modifications.

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Martin Elstner @martin.elstner.dev · 27/11/2025

Also the training data bootstrapping sounds very interesting. Quite some nuggets in the report!

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Martin Elstner @martin.elstner.dev · 27/11/2025

Nano banana pro also nicely puts it directly onto the music sheet, it looks really good, but it’s not the chords it suggests above 🤨

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Martin Elstner @martin.elstner.dev · 27/11/2025

Really nice how you can get music notation for your kids to play along for the holidays:

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Martin Elstner @martin.elstner.dev · 15/10/2025

What would you expect? Single line prompt gave me this:

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Martin Elstner @martin.elstner.dev · 01/08/2025

Nevertheless, mine is better :)

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Martin Elstner @martin.elstner.dev · 12/07/2025

POV: EV charging in rural Germany

A little snail sitting inside a cars charging port

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Martin Elstner @martin.elstner.dev · 26/06/2025

Power users drive LLM adoption: As we run our survey on work related LLM usage in a large, mid-sized German technology firm, we observed a divide into heavy users and non-user, but very few in between.

LLM usage frequency for employees:
never 767
1-2x per month 289
1-2x per week 814
3-5x per week 268
5-10x per week 401
3-5x per day 653
> 5x per day 817

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Martin Elstner @martin.elstner.dev · 25/06/2025

If you want to build an AI feature into an existing product, I really recommend to go through this book. It’s one of the most enlightening technical reads I had in the last few years.

Photo of the book “UX for AI” by Greg Nudelman

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Martin Elstner @martin.elstner.dev · 25/06/2025

If your company implements stringent rules regarding the use of Generative AI tools, there's a high probability employees will find ways to circumvent them.

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Martin Elstner @martin.elstner.dev · 05/12/2024

In-place Assistants > Chat windows! Hugging Face's integration of an "AI Query" overlay in their SQL console exemplifies this. Users input natural language, AI suggests SQL queries—streamlining data exploration seamlessly. Probably the best showcase of this pattern in a freely accessible product.