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[AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)
Steve Yegge has been very popular and loud in his gung ho adoption of tokenmaxxing, so it is sobering to see him now shut down Gas Town and admit that despite spending many thousands a month on coding agent subscriptions… he only ever built Gas Town with it: Similarly, while Astra is often reportedly cheaper than Sol…
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