Coding agents can induce manic overwork with little real output

Y Combinator argues AI can automate plan reviews, zoning checks, inspections, licensing and public records, work still done largely by hand. It cites 19,000 US cities and notes permits can take longer to obtain than building the house.

OpenAI considered dropping token-based pricing for its next model, letting developers submit a prompt and get a price for the work, before negative customer feedback reversed the plan, Sam Altman said. He spoke Thursday.

Idol converts one photo, render, or generated image into up to 1,048,576 Gaussians, output as a standard 3DGS .ply file. It strips the background and frames the object automatically, running on consumer GPUs at 7.2 GB of VRAM.

Hydro, an open-source Rust framework for distributed systems, added a way to verify a system still works correctly when it resends messages after a failure. Shadaj Laddad said the resulting change was "like a 5000 line PR."