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Why can’t you build it? Because you aren’t allowed to build it. Not in the place you want to build it. Or at least, not the way you want, to the extent you want it, at any sane price and on any reasonable schedule. The government will not let you....
Build more housing where people want to live. The rest is commentary. If there is enough housing, it will be affordable, people will afford more house, and people will be able to live where they want to live. It’s always been that simple. Increased supply of any kind of housing...
This was the week of GPT-5.5. It is an excellent model, sir, and OpenAI is competitive with Anthropic’s top public offering for the first time since late last year. As usual, I did coverage of the System Card, and then of Capabilities and Reactions. DeepSeek gave us the long-awaited v4....
We all need a break so: What is the most important chart in the world? I decided to ask Twitter, and got a lot of good answers. So today, with few of my picks, I present: The Most Important Charts In The World. You’ve got to admit it’s getting better....
The system card for GPT-5.5 mostly told us what we expected. See this thread from Drake Thomas for some comparisons to Anthropic’s model card for Opus 4.7. Now we move on to asking what it means in practice, and in what situations GPT-5.5 should become our new weapon of choice....
Last week, OpenAI announced GPT-5.5, including GPT-5.5-Pro. My overall read here is that GPT-5.5 is a solid improvement, and for many purposes GPT-5.5 is competitive with Claude Opus. Reactions are still coming in and it is early. My guess on the shape is that GPT-5.5 is the pick for ‘just...
AI continue to accelerate and dominate the schedule, which is why this is a bit late, but we do occasionally need to pay our respects to the Goddess of Everything Else. There’s cool or interesting things everywhere. Also maddenning things. But did you hear, for example, that they’re making some...