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wow. Basically the idea here is some people just want the seat or the bed and don't want the rest of the luxury bundle they sell with it. this could change the industry's pricing model.

Yup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.) GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week. So we're pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services, and strengthening GitHub’s core features. And as a fine purveyor of hand-crafted shit code for many years, I'm not gonna weigh in on that. 🤣

Thanks for featuring my post and my face so prominently on the cover of your video. I just wish you’d actually addressed it (the post, not the face) in the video. Instead, you frame the lab leak case as “it happened in the same city as a coronavirus lab.” But that’s a caricature strawman of my argument. My point is that it’s not just the location, it’s the timing. This is the very lab that proposed to hunt for SARS-like CoVs with spikes 10-25% divergent from SARS1 and engineer furin cleavage sites into them just a year before the outbreak. That’s a very different argument from “there’s a lab in Wuhan.” I’d welcome you actually engaging with it.

I use AI to do research (i.e., find things to read, explain parts of academic papers I find ambiguous or confusing), transcribe interviews, generate pushback on my column thesis, suggest trims when I'm over my word count, sharpen podcast interview questions, and perform a final fact check on columns and editorials. But mostly it's compressing the ancillary tasks to the main job: reading, thinking, and writing.

This is literally what my students say when they get busted using AI. “I didn’t use it to write my paper just for brainstorming, outlining, and editing.” Yeah that’s most of what writing is.