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[AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)

Latent.SpacePublished 1 hour ago

Steve Yegge has shut down his AI coding project Gas Town after spending thousands on coding agent subscriptions without success. Meanwhile, Databricks deployed GPT-6 Astra to 3,500 engineers, finding it better on complex tasks but incurring 60% higher costs than previous models.

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