Welcome to Gas Town

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Steve Yegge
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This is a detailed deep-dive into orchestrating 10-30+ Claude instances simultaneously for massive coding productivity gains. While the tool itself is extremely early/experimental, the architectural patterns and "stages of AI developer evolution" framework are immediately relevant to Brian's workflow optimization and side project automation goals.

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AI/agents/future of software work - Primary focus Engineering craft/architecture/productivity - Core architectural patterns Side projects/automation/earning from skills - Scaling development velocity

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Stage 7: 10+ agents, hand-managed. You are starting to push the limits of hand-management.
17 days, 75k lines of code, 2000 commits
GUPP states, simply: If there is work on your hook, YOU MUST RUN IT
Gas Town is expensive as hell. You won't like Gas Town if you ever have to think, even for a moment, about where money comes from.
Work becomes fluid, an uncountable substance that you sling around freely, like slopping shiny fish into wooden barrels

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#ai-agents #developer-productivity #automation-architecture #future-of-coding #orchestration #serverless-patterns #economics-of-ai