Is this just urbit all over again? Making up a bunch of terms and abstractions to make a mundane thing seem novel? At least in this case it seems more like psychosis than grift. In any case, I will be interested to see if this tooling yields any actual results, doesn't seem like it so far (except maybe more tooling lol).
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#12Let me guess what comes next, Gas State? Where it’s just another larger iteration of the same thing
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#13I really fundamentally do not understand what problem Gas City solves that is not already solved by normal subagent orchestration patterns. If you want to call your main LLM session the "mayor" and have it delegate its work out to planners and coders and reviewers and QA and so on, this is already a thing you can do! If you want to do this in a reusable way you can create skills and subagent definitions and use /comm…
Admittedly, this project started before that was possible with the standard coding agents.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's very transparent about his addiction to agentic coding. He's doing it for the giggles as far as I can tell. Trolling and being a personality. I don't mean that in a bad kind of assessment. He's said as much.
> his addiction to agentic coding Why would it be an addiction versus obsession? Getting obsessed with something and building things around it, even if it's nonsense, is artistically genuine.
yeah that's true. i used the word addiction because i remember reading him using that exact word. and including tokens and llms alongside the rise of gambling and such.
but i could be wrong.
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#15is there examples of the sort of things that's been built with these systems? it often feels like complication and abstraction for its own sake
Dolelite is the only thing I could find.
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#16You know there are software which are so marvelously monumental, they inspire me to improve in my craft. Among them in no particular order
- The Witcher 3 (honorable mention, for all its jank, Skyrim) - Sublime Text and vim - Krita and Procreate - Early Google Chrome - Redis and Postgres
Seeing "steve-yegge.medium.com" on the HN frontpage averts me by reflex. Like, I'm suddenly inspired to learn more about agriculture. Or contracting, I heard that could be lucrative. Heck, I'd even go full hipster and open a bookshop in this economy.
Steve, you probably don't give a shit about my opinion but I just want to know from which Jamaican zip codes do you source your supply.
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#17Hell yeah! Another episode of my favorite AI coding psychosis series!
Is there a good overview source on what this is? I don't want a takedown. And I don't want to be sold. I just want a solid explainer.
I don't know about any ready made explanation, but it is basically multi-agent orchestration, but with lore and role-playing created by a mind deep in AI psychosis. You know how agents can call sub agents? That, but with dozens of different layers and calling things different names for extreme anthropomorphization beyond mortal comprehension.
I recommend going deep into the Gas Town rabbit hole, it's really funny and a bit worrisome. He has like a federated system for random people's "towns" to connect to and he drains his wallet on multiple Claude accounts to build software with virtual polecats.
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#18This is so misguided, I don't even know where to begin. If you think that throwing more tokens at a problem with your agents cos-playing whatever fiction you cook up is the road to reliability, robustness and good design, you deserve all the misery that comes your way. If you want people to take this seriously, ground your ideas with rigorous data to prove that this works better than the state of the art. Until then, this is just irresponsible planet burning, token burning propaganda.
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#19You know there are software which are so marvelously monumental, they inspire me to improve in my craft. Among them in no particular order - The Witcher 3 (honorable mention, for all its jank, Skyrim) - Sublime Text and vim - Krita and Procreate - Early Google Chrome - Redis and Postgres Seeing "steve-yegge.medium.com" on the HN frontpage averts me by reflex. Like, I'm suddenly inspired to learn more about agricultur…
What jank does Skyrim have. The whole thing is like 6 GB.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's very transparent about his addiction to agentic coding. He's doing it for the giggles as far as I can tell. Trolling and being a personality. I don't mean that in a bad kind of assessment. He's said as much.
> his addiction to agentic coding Why would it be an addiction versus obsession? Getting obsessed with something and building things around it, even if it's nonsense, is artistically genuine.
I don’t know. I have coding so much I got into technology management a decade ago. But I can’t read myself away from personal projects, it’s addictive in a way.