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Do you have a team of 25 or something?! That's a lot!

The places you mention all have great lifestyle amenities: arts organizations, libraries, book stores, fine dining, niche retail, etc. When I first moved to Austin, I was legit shocked at how bad the food was here. It's gotten better but if I had money to burn, I'd enjoy burning it in SF way more.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Housing for grandparents near schools can be a win-win-win for kids, parents, and grandparents.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On the one hand, AI will probably soon be able to cut the cost of a lot of the make-work paperwork cities make developers do to build housing. Have any of my followers used it for that? On the other hand, I expect cities will up the ante to compensate.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For the record, I care about injuries and deaths or children even when they have bad parents.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The thing is, there's strong evidence that the models have been plateauing ever since AI last Friday.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think the truth is our understanding of the human brain is in its infancy. I'm hopeful that the silicon brains can help us sift through all the data we have.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Got served this Republican anti-Paxton ad while I watched 🏈. I hope that not only will Paxton lose the election, but I hope his wing of the Texas Republican party loses leverage because of it.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Real estate involves such immense amounts of capital that anyone who managed to truly corner it would have cornered political power long before that. I do believe we have examples of this in company towns.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Their tactics on the front lines feel pretty questionable to me but it's clear they have some excellent tech. Ukraine is struggling to find an answer to FABs, Iskanders, jet Gerans, etc.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My read is that Waymos struggle with some things most human drivers get (e.g. obeying emergency responders) but they're way better than human drivers at the common things.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Isn't that roughly in line with other taxi services?

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He wanted the chance to come insult Paxton's clothing style in person.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think in five years "directly reading source code" is going to be like "reading Assembly:" lots of people learn how to do it in college, a handful do it for a living, and the vast majority of people composing software never do it.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah but the models have been completely asynptoted since the Opus and Sonnet 5.5 releases earlier this week

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think journalism is a job that is legit one of the worst jobs for AI. There's so much journalists do that involves a healthy skepticism of what people say.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm not sure the point is to actually eliminate immigrants but to make them a permanent underclass whose presence is entirely dependent on not offending people higher on the status ladder. This is consistent with how some men view their marriage as well.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think the stable equilibrium they seek out is a sort of permanent status ladder. Once they have relegated one group to the bottom rung, they repeat the process toward the next rung and so on and so on.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I mean more the execs and MBAs above the coders.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And I think a lot of the people who would've been drawn to the Wolf of Wall Street in the 80s are now drawn to the high growth industry of the day.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes but not only. When I started, most people in tech loved tech. Like they were tinkerers and oddballs with a love for the game, whether they were socially adept or not. But that builds some very poor user interfaces and bad businesses, so now tech is a much broader cross-section.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think there's been a lot of change in who gets involved in tech through the years.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Will NYC residents be able to adjust to the presence of apartments?

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If Apple introduced fancy new boxes for an iPhone, people would love it. I don't see why the government can't also want people to enjoy things.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's the most milquetoast blah blah statement about an important constituency. There's literally no good reason to get upset about it.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The traditional tradeoff between configurability and ease of use might drop off if configuration was an AI wizard rather than a giant menu of options you have to hunt through.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Like, every company of any size now has an IT department. Maybe ten years from now every company is going to have a job title of AI engineer quickly putting together an app that's better than a spreadsheet.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think there's also going to be a weird Jevons Paradox thing coming soon where we have an army of people who know how to program but are no longer needed at traditional dev shops walking into companies and overhauling proprietary internal systems.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One area I think AI has really upended is anything with competition over a relatively fixed number of slots: job applications, college applications, grant applications. The ability for applicants to produce decent-looking applications has skyrocketed. Screening efficiency hasn't.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I also think OP underestimates AI. "Replace junior devs" is a huge understatement to what AI is doing to software development.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think campaigns especially like to flood inboxes of out-of-staters because if you get pissed at the campaign, you wouldn't have voted for them anyway. And they all trade email lists. I get a ton of emails from out of state candidates I never signed up with.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The only time I took the first train of the day (5:15 maybe?) out of Fields Corner, I learned that tradition is that if you go through the gates immediately after staff unlocks them, you don't pay.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How does this split in the "garden apartments vs mid/high-rise" dimension?

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Apartments without parking? What witchcraft is this?!

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Did you get elected to play golf or to make change?

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can the developer's AI bot just negotiate it with the city's AI bot overnight?

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I never stopped believing in a redistributive state. I have stopped believing that every policy area needs to center redistribution. Bus fares can be about bus service, zoning about housing, taxes about generating funds, and social supports about making sure people are safe and happy.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's more emotionally satisfying to get through tough times when they themselves didn't cause the tough times and there's a sense of "we're all in this together." In this case, Republicans caused the bad times and are very clear that they don't think we're all in this together.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'd love to be in a world where transit has enough money that it can maintain service levels and eliminate fares but the moment we face in reality is dramatic cuts to service levels, which is incredibly costly for people who need transit to work. The worst bus is the one that doesn't come.

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And they say LLMs don't learn!

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm curious whether you could get it to evaluate those other factors by asking it to or if it just keeps veering back to "the law is the law"

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The people demand blue end zones!

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It also reminds me of the college admissions market where the cost of completing applications went down and down for decades, meaning every student had to submit a dozen just to be sure they got into one

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