AI reality check: Yegge shuts down Gas Town as Databricks' Astra costs rise 60%
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Latent Space's AINews roundup of developments from September 15–16 reports that Steve Yegge shut down Gas Town and acknowledged spending thousands of dollars a month on coding-agent subscriptions to build just that one project.
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