Welcome to Gas City

Post by DonHopkins » Mon, May 04, 2026, 9:56 PM UTC

conception wrote: post #13

thurn wrote: post #10

I 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.

Post by lexicality » Mon, May 04, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC

dyauspitr wrote: post #19

yallpendantools wrote: post #16

You 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.

Post by bigyabai » Mon, May 04, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #9

apsurd wrote: post #8

Earlier 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.

Post by JumpCrisscross » Mon, May 04, 2026, 10:03 PM UTC

hootz wrote: post #17

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Post by bravetraveler » Mon, May 04, 2026, 10:05 PM UTC

dyauspitr wrote: post #19

yallpendantools wrote: post #16

You 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.