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Is artificial analysis using the 80% reduction in Luna pricing that was announced yesterday in these charts?

Those weird phrasings are useful as a tell for ai-generated content!

This is why we can't have nice things. Huge additional costs and design constraints because of * 2-exit-stairwell requirement * elevator laws * parking laws Article contrasts with …

I thought the same. Normal people don’t write that way.

We’re going to be in a very weird place: * LLMs make it trivial to recreate almost any software using its test suite (maybe not a derivative work) * LLM generated code has no copyr…

The maintainer used the original test suite in the rewrite. Does that make the new code a derivative of the original test suite (also lpgl)?

It was my son’s laptop , he’s in high school. General Google Classroom / Google Docs / Gmail / web research stuff. He’s not technical at all. I bought him the 8GB machine thinking …

Does using the old version’s tests to create a new version make it a derivative work? That’s certainly some pretty tight coupling.

I found Google Chrome makes an M1 MacBook Air with 8GB RAM almost unusable, unless you're really careful to keep only a few tabs only. I'm curious what browser you were using and i…

See also https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/25/closed-tests/

We recently got a tire at the dealer. My wife got a flat while she was trying to get to work. The car comes with roadside assistance, and the "easy path" was to let them tow it to …

The dynamics in the US are different for a reason: Car dealerships are independently owned due to laws preventing car manufacturers from directly selling cars to consumers. This me…

Yes I think there's a real innovators' dilemma here for traditional automakers with dealer networks. Dealers make most of their money on servicing vehicles, not selling them. And E…

I think the biggest risk to ChatGPT as a consumer brand is that they don’t own the device surface. Google / Microsoft / Apple could make great AI that’s infused in the OS / browser…

A lot of the California bills had various poison pills in them that reduced their effectiveness. For example, SB684 allowed building and subdividing up to 10 units on a multifamily…

The economics of 3BR family units are typically hard for developers to make money on. Bobby Fijan ( https://x.com/bobbyfijan ) is an example of a developer who is a vocal advocate …

A Redditor created a great interactive map showing where SB 79 applies in California here: https://www.reddit.com/r/yimby/comments/1ne2q87/sb_79_intera...

I don't think we're going to see much of that: * The projects won't be profitable in smaller towns, because rents aren't high enough to recoup the cost. * Tall buildings cost MORE …

This law (and other recent CA YIMBY laws) don't create much surface area to sue or slow a project: * The approvals are designed to be "ministerial", meaning there is no discretion …

Seems like BART should do these upgrades only at low traffic times, like overnight Saturday night.

Interestingly, they've made only the source code open-source. They require a license agreement to download releases. See for example: https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix/releases/tag…