If I was Mamdani, this would be my game plan:
1. Find a handful of these failing apartments (caused mostly by prior rent control policies). Keep it to a handful as that would be easy to directly manage
2. Step in and use government funds to repair them and ideally seize them via a lien against the building for the repair costs (maybe not directly into gov control, but perhaps some NGO)
3. Use this as an example of how the government can both improve the livable conditions and keep the rent controlled
4. Market this to get more support
Don’t worry that this means spending tax payer dollars to prop up the failed rent control policies.
Don’t worry that the government will totally suck at property management (it’s easy when there’s only a few buildings and you personally make it a pet project).
Just use other people’s money to pretend your policies work. Sell housing cents on the dollar to buy tenant votes.
Of course it won’t sustain. Of course this will lead to less development and worse conditions. Of course it’ll bankrupt the city.
That’s tomorrow’s problem! And when that comes, just pretend like some capitalist holdouts are the reasons it’s not working. There’s always someone to blame, because you initially showed that it works.
Leverage all of that to demonize the rich more and extract more taxes from them to fund this scheme.
With the Cursor SDK, you can build your own agents with Composer 2.5. It's now available in Python and TypeScript.
This long weekend, Composer usage is 90% off in the SDK. We're excited to see what you build!
You can now create and manage automations in the same workspace as your agents.
Automations are now available in the Agents Window. For the next 7 days, all agent runs for newly created automations are 50% off.
Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet.
It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions.
For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.
Starting today, you can run cloud agents inside fully configured development environments.
Set them up the same way you'd set up a laptop for an engineer: cloned repos, installed dependencies, and toolchain credentials.
We’re introducing the Cursor SDK so you can build agents with the same runtime, harness, and models that power Cursor.
Run agents from CI/CD pipelines, create automations for end-to-end workflows, or embed agents directly inside your products.
was onsite with @Amplitude_HQ yesterday and it felt like a peek into the future
agents auto-resolving customer bugs as they’re reported
@cursor_ai automations migrating legacy code 24/7
designers, PMs, Eng sit with customers and ship
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California's population grew 0.4% in the last decade.
The number of state employees grew 24.5%.
Total state spending grew 48%, inflation adjusted.
You have to ask - where did all the money go?
Cursor cloud agents produced over a million commits over the past two weeks.
These commits were essentially all AI. Since they have their own computer, cloud agents run the code themselves and little human intervention is required.
Pretty cool!
Cursor cloud agents can now run on your infrastructure.
Get the same cloud agent harness and experience, but keep your code and tool execution entirely in your own network.
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