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[John Mason @johnkmason]

God damn. I cannot recommend more strongly that everyone, EVERYONE, whether you’re an Eng, pm, or even investor/finance bro, watch this. At LEAST the first half. @poteto was on the react compiler team at meta and an EM at Netflix.

What struck me most is the CLEAR skepticism she once had about agents, how she talks through all the problems IN DETAIL, but how she systematized solving those problems and sort of climbed up the hill of agent incompetence despair.

[End Homelessness @naehomelessness]

Housed, healthy people can’t afford rent/food/gas. Cicero’s Devon Kurtz says homeless people “eventually pay their bills” without housing assistance. Legislators need to realize the Cicero Institute lives in a different economic reality than constituents. https://t.co/ndRJ5QgbDD

[Dipanshu Kushwaha @Dipanshu_AI]

Anthropic just released a 4-hour course to getting a $500k AI engineering job:

00:15 - The right way to prompt Claude
33:21 - What makes Claude act dumber on your code
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4-hour Anthropic free course replaces about 10 paid engineering courses.

Watch it today, then read the step-by-step guide on building loops below.

[Dave Rand @DRand2024]

HVN Development started by my friend and client Tommy Beadel has 14 projects and over 3000 affordable homes in various stages of permitting and construction in City of LA. Almost overnight he has become LA’s most successful affordable developer. ❤️ this! https://t.co/IvTnxgX4jG

[Elizabeth Chou @reporterliz]

The tension between LA county and city is perennial, and it was on display at today's Housing & Homelessness Committee meeting, where its members, including Nithya Raman, raised worries they'd lose access to case management data that they believe is important for accountability.

[mottsmith @mottsmith]

If you needed another reason to demand ULA reform, here you go.

[Jay Parsons @jayparsons]

This is a known flaw of rent stabilization: It's untargeted.

Famously, former NYC Mayor Ed Koch maintained a rent stabilized apartment while also living in the mayoral mansion.

I can never understand why this fact doesn't bother pro-rent control folks more than it does.

Radical idea: Give affordable housing to those who need it.

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

Co-living has been an unmitigated disaster in LA, in large part bc you can't operate it profitably under modern landlord-tenant law, where it takes months to remove bad apples.

(In the heyday of SROs, if someone was ruining everyone else's living situation, the owner or manager would kick them out ~instantly, often, under threat of violence.)

[mottsmith @mottsmith]

Fact check: True. When you cap rents but have no way to cap costs, the business model becomes brittle and unsustainable.

[bubblesthecorgi @bubsthecorgi]

@UrbanizeLA disgustingly overpriced

[Robert Greene @robrtgreene]

No, Los Angeles isn’t a weak-mayor town. So why do we elect so many weak mayors? https://t.co/sKAwkn0aAw

[Shelby Grad @shelbygrad]

Steve Lopez feels for Spencer Pratt. They both want to fix LA. But Steve has been around long enough to know how hard that is (consider: the City Hall fountain has been broken for 60 years! https://t.co/V92pKVHE41

[bubblesthecorgi @bubsthecorgi]

@mottsmith wow this is great!

[mottsmith @mottsmith]

Measure ULA's defenders are citing Q1 permitting data as "proof" multifamily development is "back."

But remember: a building permit is not a housing unit. It's an option to start construction.

And the data they're celebrating is actually evidence of distress. Let me explain.

[Hiten Samtani 🗞️ @hitsamty]

LA is much, much, much harder to fix than SF tho. SF is a tinny nubbin of a place and has the tailwind of being the epicenter of the hottest industry on the planet.

LA is massive, and its central industry is in the pits. Even the love child of Lurie and Bloomberg would struggle with its combo of sprawl and economic malaise.

Not saying LA isn't own goal central, but it's a far tougher pitch to play on.

[mottsmith @mottsmith]

A city that only builds affordable housing becomes very unaffordable, fast.

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

California spends the most of any US state subsidizing deed-restricted affordable housing, yet on every objective measure of housing affordability (price-income ratios, rent burdens, homelessness) we're either the worst or second worst on outcomes.

[mottsmith @mottsmith]

@JMGregorchuk 100% yes.

[Joe Cohen @CohenSite]

There was a really interesting paper on LA's TOC program published by Stephanie Kestelman at Harvard in December that has completely flown under the radar.

It found that, while the program increased entitlements, it didn't actually increase the number of units that got built

[mottsmith @mottsmith]

If you read one thing about Measure ULA, read this.