Steve Yegge's Gas Town is an experimental agent orchestration system that runs dozens of AI coding agents simultaneously. While poorly designed and expensive, it reveals future patterns for agentic development: specialized agent roles with hierarchical supervision, ephemeral sessions with persistent tasks stored in Git,
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1. Design and planning becomes the bottleneck when agents write all the code2. Buried in the chaos are sketches of future agent orchestration patterns3. The price is extremely high, but so is the (potential) value4. Yegge never looks at code. When should we stop looking too?Sort: