> The Wasteland was designed for federating work, but its metamorphosis into an RPG seems unstoppable at this point. This is all just performance art at this point, right?
Or worse, public masterbation.
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#12> The Wasteland was designed for federating work, but its metamorphosis into an RPG seems unstoppable at this point. This is all just performance art at this point, right?
Waste… I can’t stop thinking about the waste of human talent and potential. The waste of resources to run AI data centers. The waste of the now old school CS ethos. Yea, wasteland checks out.
The future is wastemaxxing
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#14> The Wasteland was designed for federating work, but its metamorphosis into an RPG seems unstoppable at this point. This is all just performance art at this point, right?
It reminds me of the time the band KLF burned £1 million in cash as a performance piece. They obviously regretted it afterwards.
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#15This show has really lost the plot.
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#16The name, at least, is fitting.
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#17I really want to host a vibe coding competition and see what can actually be made with these systems. Like if we’re doing insane token spends, it better be in service of creating amazing stuff. Can we make an entirely new programming language? Can we make an OS?
> Can we make an entirely new programming language? Can we make an OS?
I have seen both of these already. I've done the former personally, and I've seen links to at least kernels for the latter.
(I didn't do it via gastown, just regular old "use Claude".)
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#18Reads like a scam. Obfuscatory language, outsized claims on future impact, excited opportunity advertisement, first-mover advantage, "no time for the rulebook, it's an inch thick!".
I'm good, thanks.
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#19People should stop giving Steve Yegge as much attention as they do.
It's slop on top of slop on top of slop. It's not even quality slop. Apart from bloviated self-aggrandising blog posts, the ideas are trivial, and the execution is beyond horrendous.
Look beyond the ChatGPT-generated terminology to see the supervisors, loops and worker processes of Gas Town. Now it's a freelance board with AI agents as freelancers. But sure, polecats, mayors, stamps and character sheets. Whatever floats your upcoming crypto rug pull [1].
This is what he writes: "build stuff really, really fast. So fast that your biggest problem will be ideas." We've yet to see ideas built using the slopcoded monstrosities.
[1] https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/22/steve-yegges-gas-town-vib...
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#20I really want to host a vibe coding competition and see what can actually be made with these systems. Like if we’re doing insane token spends, it better be in service of creating amazing stuff. Can we make an entirely new programming language? Can we make an OS?
I would much prefer vibe-coding to be used at the highest layers, not the substrate that we all depend on.