Wednesday assorted links

1. Do LLMs persuade better than humans?

2. Anthropic Economic Index: AI’s Impact on Software Development.

3. For this summer: “This month-long “popup village” is a prototype for Esmeralda, the permanent town they are building 90 minutes north of SF. Edge Esmeralda runs May 24 – June 21 in Healdsburg, just 15 mins from the land they are buying.”

4. Tuna like puffins too?

5. The ongoing deterioration of New Zealand inflation targeting (Bloomberg).

6. Hypotheses about Spanish electricity.