I think Denver has a few other things going for it that simply make it a higher value housing market, namely:
1. Mild weather - dry weather with well defined seasons without
2. Natural recreation - some of the best year-around outdoor recreation in the country
3. More diverse economy - Austin is extremely tech heavy. Anecdotally most people saw dot-com boom hit Austin much harder than 08 crisis. Tech is bleeding right now.
4. Geography - building in Denver is constrained by Rocky mountains. The plains offer endless building but in Texas you can build any direction and topology is very flat.
I think the other thing not mentioned here is that Austin saw a huge influx of home buyers in 2020-2024 - most everyone I met during that time that moved from West Coast bought at the high and left within 2-3 years after realizing they couldn't handle the crumbling infrastructure and hot summers. Many of them have been holding onto these properties and trying to rent. This only put more pressure on another group - those who bought properties specifically for short-term rentals (e.g. Airbnb). Those who did stay are see massive headcount reductions in tech industry. Meanwhile there are many natives who would love to live closer but are stuck with properties purchased in '21-'24 in Round Rock, Georgetown, San Marcos, Taylor, etc.
So IMO this a perfect storm of not just building housing supply (which is great - the best thing the city has managed to do in the past 15 years), but also significant demand correction.
As someone born and raised in Austin and a homeowner within the city - I am ecstatic about decline in rents and home values. Austin became what it is in part because it was affordable.
We have no nearby mountains, hot summers, poor infrastructure, poor politics, a heavily polluted coastline --> there was no reason for it's prices to be as high as they were.
I have been to Austin only once for South by Southwest back in 95. As a musician I loved being in Austin, especially for that event. I do get the differences between there and Denver. I love it here. However it is getting hotter here too. It's 85 today and will be 87-88 Friday, and we are running out of water along with the rest of the Southwest. Who knows what's going to happen or where to go to if it gets real bad?
So maybe they may be smarter then they get credited for being. Probably not. But now anyone feeling uncomfortable about facial recognition tech now know what they can do to combat it if they chose. One question. Can you get thru the airport and onto a plan wearing the makeup?
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I am not very experienced but I was able to use Claude Code to build a test website, for my music, a test CRM, and me and my partner were planning to use it to make AI chatbots, when we were marketing these types of services last year. There were times when I found it frustrating due to my lack of experience. Someone mentioned token efficiency below and all the AI's seem to be designed to make you have to have it do things that you ask over and over again so it can use up as much tokens as it can before it gives you exactly what you need. Of course this may also be due to my lack of experience. I do have a friend with a great deal of experience who I go to for help and he even has issues with it at times.
Actually not as much as you would think (according to the recordings I'm getting). Though, I admit, this probably hasn't made it to "delinquent teens making farting noises" audience yet haha
Interesting approach using DuckDB for the underlying CRM storage. I’m curious how well the file-system based structure scales once the dataset grows significantly.
