This is what he's spending '$87k worth of tokens' building a month btw: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1541710/Wyvern/
The Shape of Things to Come
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#52Essays became way to easy to write with AI. It used to be a basic filter that if text was long the author put a lot of thought (even if misguided) and effort (even if low quality) into it. Not its just another torrent of words. We need proof of work on long texts, a service that guarantees that the author was whipped for more than 20 lashes for this text to exists and thus we know he cared enough to publish it.
I dunno, this may have been him. He's always been writing crazy long blog posts, it's sort of his signature.
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#53I watched Steve talking about GasTown in some podcast but I didn't understand it at all. I read some part of this article didnt understand what he wanted to say.
I still remember his very old blog post where he rants about Google and Bezos, after reading that I thought the author of this post is very insightful but when I read his post I have no idea what is he talking about.
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#54This is what he's spending '$87k worth of tokens' building a month btw: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1541710/Wyvern/
The reviews (both the contents and total count) are not exactly confidence inducing.
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#55nb: current models (e.g. GPT 5.6 Sol) are very good at long horizon tasks they no longer need crutches or rube goldberg machines to keep them going minimal agent harness is just a loop that loops until no more tool calls are coming GPT 5.6 Sol continues to drive the loop until the task is done or it decides that it wants to present the user with information at that point it is probably good to not automatically conti…
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#56I hate to say, "I told you so" about Gas Town, but, I really told you so. I was making fun of it immediately, because it was obviously a token furnace and literally nothing else and could never be anything else. Models don't want anything. You can't set them loose in a vague "do something" loop and expect anything good to ever come of it. Yegge's a smart guy, and I've enjoyed his writing and talks (historically), but…
I remember reading this line from his Gas Town article:
> I predicted someone would lash the Claude Code camels together into chariots, and that is exactly what I’ve done with Gas Town.
He's literally patting himself on the back for predicting someone would do something and then doing it himself, thus proving his own prediction right!
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
> the revenue is at 5k. "$5K a month, at the peak, from a single devoted “whale”" So it doesn't tell us his monthly revenue ('at the peak' doing some heavy lifting), nor necessarily the total revenue, but I guess it tells us he has made at least $5k from it overall... ...earned from a single player he charmingly referred to as a "whale" (which, yes, I know is what they are commonly called in the mobile game industry…
It probably already is against their ToS, they just don't want to make an example out of anyone yet.
They need him to continue evangelizing how to get a single individual to burn $87k/month so the corporations who have to actually pay usage pricing will actually make them bank :)
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#58Holy moly https://yegge.ai/essays/model-welfare/ ! Talk about spicy takes. Fable is sentient, be nice to it, or in six months I won't be your friend.
fwiw, i give it a 1/3rd chance he's right.
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#59This is what he's spending '$87k worth of tokens' building a month btw: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1541710/Wyvern/
The reviews (both the contents and total count) are not exactly confidence inducing.
I mean, what's not confidence inspiring about this? https://shared.fastly.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/stea...
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#60I hear so much about people running into token limits and using bajillions of tokens. Am I doing something wrong? I'm finding it hard to run into the limits of a Claude Max (20x) account. Well, perhaps the 50% Fable limit is something I have to be aware of, but otherwise this more than I can consume. I am the limiting factor: my capability to review code and design documents. I use it to develop a large MRP-style app…
The guy built an engine designed to burn tokens: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*85x...
Each little critter in there is a component that both consumes and produces tokens, and it runs in a feedback loop, so each token inserted into the machine will cause it burn exponentially more tokens in order to output yet another token.
Ostensibly its purpose is to create software, but what it does is very efficiently burn tokens as fast as possible.