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A hypothetical single 39-year-old DC resident would benefit from enhanced premium tax credits if they earn between $35k and $80k. They would gain up to $1,648, if they earned $47,100. From our new PolicyEngine US ACA calculator: policyengine.org/us/aca-calc

Agentic AI coding tools continue to inspire us to turn everything into software. Join us at our new home in downtown DC, the Open Gov Hub, for a celebratory happy hour on Oct 22: luma.com/lnrzph2h

"Among women, 2nd-generation Black [immigrant] workers have earnings higher than or equal to White women; among men, they earn 10% less at the median, but the gap vanishes at the top decile." nber.org/papers/w34327

Rude prompts to LLMs consistently lead to better results than polite ones 🤯 The authors found that very polite and polite tones reduced accuracy, while neutral, rude, and very rude tones improved it. Statistical tests confirmed that the differences were significant, not

AI is apparently already accelerating science. Measuring academic publications of authors: “we find that productivity among GenAI users rose by 15 percent in 2023 relative to non-users and further increased to 36 percent in 2024” and the quality of publications also went up.

Man receives a $5k Scott Alexander grant to write 1,000 self-fulfilling prophecies about transformative AI going well. This is awesome

VS Code was turning into a memory-sink Claude Code wrapper so I'm just rawdogging it

I asked Claude Code if its VS Code extension supports --dangerously-skip-permissions yet, and it cited my own tweet.

ChatGPT estimates that switching from Cascade Free & Clear ActionPacs (Wirecutter's main rec) to Dirty Labs's dishwasher detergent (Wirecutter's minimalist rec) would yield 23 quality-adjusted life seconds per year. chatgpt.com/share/68f52e9f… nytimes.com/wirecutter/rev…

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Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI These tools sound like you need to be an engineer to use them, but they're really just LLMs that run on your computer. You don't need to code with them - they're also perfectly happy to summarize or convert files in your Downloads folder.