Revived Lightweight Transit Predictions Page

LessWrong reports that developer jefftk has revived a transit prediction tool he built in two thousand fifteen for the Boston transit system. When the MBTA switched APIs years later, he'd abandoned the project—updating legacy code wasn't worth the effort. Now, Claude helped him fix it with a single request. He's using it as his daily tool and values how it displays prediction staleness, giving him a better sense of whether to trust the data. He's also working on improvements to prediction accuracy, using custom logging to compare different approaches for stops like Ball Square.

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