The newsletter identifies him only as a Berkeley researcher; the linked write-up is his own account of the Repo Optimizer run, and his GitHub profile, reached through the write-up’s link to the KISS repository, gives his affiliation as UC Berkeley (profile).
Role
Koushik Sen, researcher at UC Berkeley
The position in which the newsletter reports him letting his coding agent cut its own cost overnight.
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- Welcome to February 16, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
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