Jeffrey

That's such a good description. It's like asking, "How are those scissors?" And getting the answer, "They cut."

As the cost of the "code writing" part falls toward zero, we are illuminating what we've always known: being clear about what you're building is the hardest and most important part. And the second most important part is making sure it was built correctly.

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@rands.bsky.social is always a good read, and this one doesn't disappoint: randsinrepose.com/archives/eve...

It matches my own experience quite closely.

I’m a fellow Ryobi guy.

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The new ICE budget (~$75B) is on par with military budgets around the world (~$2X Israel’s) and dwarfs other federal law enforcement agency budgets (FBI+DEA+ATF =~$10.8B).

I live in a police state.

Heh. Thanks, man! Would love to cross paths soon. ❤️

I’d suggest “bend the knee” rather than “kneel” for that last one.

BTW, I switched from Cursor to Claude Code.

I made it.

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Claude Code Max @ $200/month is surprisingly good.

My kids have watched both Sing and Sing 2 multiple times. They like the second one better.

The cool thing is, they wanted to hear the originals of the songs in the movie, and now I have a Spotify playlist with both versions back to back.

Also, he’s wrong. Maybe doesn’t have kids?

Are you saying that the problem is that low income people can’t *own*, or that low income people can’t *rent* a unit they can reasonably afford?

Are we having two different conversations? End/

It seems like you’re saying that this means these rentals won’t be affordable for lower income people.

I guess where I’m struggling is that, assuming supply/demand laws still hold, as supply increases, demand decreases, and rents fall. 2/

Let’s follow your logic so that I can understand.

Developers in a city build enough* units of housing such that everyone who wants to live there can. Because low income people can’t afford to buy the properties, landlords do. 1/

Weak as I am on macro, everything I read says that housing affordability is more related to supply / demand rather than macro elements.

Happy to keep learning here, but … I just don’t see it the way you do. End/

As such, I’m not convinced the Fed dumping its ~$3T or mortgages will fix urban affordability more than additional supply. 2/

Spent some time with that doc. It doesn’t differentiate by urban vs suburban.

Did some separate sleuthing — suburbs and rural areas have much higher rates of homeownership at 70-75% vs. 50-55% for urbanites.

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That’s what I’m wondering — would flushing the Fed balance sheet of mortgages impact urban affordability? Or would it mostly have suburban impact?

I’m curious, is there data on what % of housing on the Fed balance sheet is urban vs suburban vs rural?

Great! But he’s also in favor of price fixing. That will (as I’ve said elsewhere) exacerbate problems.

I don’t know much about Ontario, but I’m confident that price fixing distorts markets, which can exacerbate problems that already exist, and may in some cases create new problems.

Well, I’ll amend and say microeconomics is well understood. 🙂

FWIW, I’m neither a landlord nor a developer. And generally speaking, I want the income inequality problem to go away, want stronger social safety nets, and am happy to pay higher taxes to solve these problems.

But I’m also a rationalist, and economics is real and well understood.

There’s this idea out there that “greedy developers and landlords” are the problem, but the reality is that the housing supply in most cities is too low. Incentives drive behavior, so if we want more housing, the incentives to build it have to be strong.

It’s basic supply / demand:

When prices are fixed below market equilibrium, the artificially low price increases quantity demanded while reducing quantity supplied, creating a shortage. Consumers want more of the cheaper product, but producers are less willing to supply it at the lower price point.

LLMs are particularly unhelpful when there’s limited training data, so if you work at the bleeding edge of things (at least now), LLMs will be less helpful.

My best advice for software people: be skeptical of your own bias. Keep trying the newest tools every 2-3 months. Let go of the idea that coding is the hard part. /End

As the cost of writing actual code goes toward $0, my thinking is that the roles of PM and Engineer are on a collision course. For a while, I think you’ll need deep technical skills to build reliable, quality software. But knowing WHAT to build / understanding user needs can’t be LLM’ed yet. 3/