#  @Steve_Yegge Steve Yegge Steve Yegge posts on X about gas, town, this is, all the the most. They currently have [------] followers and [--] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::429567341/interactions)  ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::429567341/posts_active)  ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::429567341/followers)  ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::429567341/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) [stocks](/list/stocks) [finance](/list/finance) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [countries](/list/countries) [social networks](/list/social-networks) **Social topic influence** [gas](/topic/gas) #2204, [town](/topic/town) #2277, [this is](/topic/this-is), [all the](/topic/all-the), [$gas](/topic/$gas) #23, [ready](/topic/ready), [agentic](/topic/agentic) #1464, [i am](/topic/i-am), [max](/topic/max), [guess](/topic/guess) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@realgenekim](/creator/undefined) [@echodotmute](/creator/undefined) [@gergelyorosz](/creator/undefined) [@simonw](/creator/undefined) [@ampcode](/creator/undefined) [@0xdyan](/creator/undefined) [@notthreadguy](/creator/undefined) [@techmeme](/creator/undefined) [@brendanplayford](/creator/undefined) [@iruletrenches](/creator/undefined) [@mikehostetler](/creator/undefined) [@jaybobzin](/creator/undefined) [@eagleeyescrypto](/creator/undefined) [@sourcegraphcody](/creator/undefined) [@steveyegge](/creator/undefined) [@blinkist](/creator/undefined) [@mattbeane](/creator/undefined) [@jamescham](/creator/undefined) [@thorstenball](/creator/undefined) [@michakaufman](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Gas (GAS)](/topic/$gas) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "The outcome of this WSB drama should be that short-selling should be made illegal. It's that simple. Shorting is legalized institutionalized gambling. It has no place in a properly-functioning market. But somehow I think that's not what's going to happen" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1354653761378033664) 2021-01-28T04:53Z 10.6K followers, [--] engagements "I was privileged to be the guest on today's Software Misadventures podcast with Guang and Ronak where we talk about writing AI and of course @SourcegraphCody. This whole episode was a lot of fun. Thanks for having me https://softwaremisadventures.com/p/steve-yegge-ai-midlife-crisis https://softwaremisadventures.com/p/steve-yegge-ai-midlife-crisis" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1828517150203781208) 2024-08-27T19:37Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "Really appreciate all the incredible work @RealGeneKim put into this. We'll have a lot more to share about this in the coming days. Stay tuned In September I got the chance to pair program for two hours with the legendary Steve Yegge (@Steve_Yegge) where he coached me on what he calls CHOP or chat-oriented programming and built something that Ive wanted to build for nearly a year. I learned how to use In September I got the chance to pair program for two hours with the legendary Steve Yegge (@Steve_Yegge) where he coached me on what he calls CHOP or chat-oriented programming and built" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1860508505058476434) 2024-11-24T02:19Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "Don't forget to register for our Virtual Code AI Summit on Dec 12th. If you want to know where programming is headed it's the place to be Be there or b2. See you there https://sourcegraph.registration.goldcast.io/events/b650937d-ba9f-40ce-9429-35c3539a5bb1utm_medium=social&utm_source=social&utm_campaign=Steve_Yegge https://sourcegraph.registration.goldcast.io/events/b650937d-ba9f-40ce-9429-35c3539a5bb1utm_medium=social&utm_source=social&utm_campaign=Steve_Yegge" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1861472625798639967) 2024-11-26T18:10Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "http://x.com/i/article/1866639850155421696 http://x.com/i/article/1866639850155421696" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1866643333529092180) 2024-12-11T00:37Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "Has anyone else noticed that GenAI gives you Google Maps-like zooming capabilities over long-form text like articles blogs books Information zoom levels have always had to be implemented by hand. You can create an abridged edition of a book which is like zooming out halfway-ish. Or you can get CliffsNotes or other summaries that are zoomed out say 90%. But it was always a ton of human labor so most of the time you just have the one zoom level or a couple. With LLMs it's now a continuum. You can "zoom out" to any level you like by asking the LLM to summarize the text at that level. And you can" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1869192523207614682) 2024-12-18T01:26Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements "@mattbeane @jamescham Actually it calls CHOP "AI-Assisted Programming" further on. Amazing stuff" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1889917017869922354) 2025-02-13T05:58Z 15K followers, [---] engagements "I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days and it has been absolutely ruthless in chewing through legacy bugs in my gnarly old code base. It's like a wood chipper fueled by dollars. It can power through shockingly impressive tasks using nothing but chat. You don't even select context. You just open your heart and your wallet and Claude Code takes the wheel. It even helps keep you in the loop by prompting you every eight seconds to ask if it can use basic read-only commands that you would allow _anyone_ even North Korean hackers to run on your machine. But you learn to watch it carefully" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1898674257808515242) 2025-03-09T09:56Z 12.9K followers, 305K engagements "Hi all I just dropped a new blog post: This one's a beehive-kicker for sure. Hope you like it and find it enlightening even if you don't agree with all of it. https://sourcegraph.com/blog/revenge-of-the-junior-developer https://sourcegraph.com/blog/revenge-of-the-junior-developer" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1903503178479653119) 2025-03-22T17:44Z 15K followers, 32.5K engagements "I almost want to hoard this for myself but: is amazing. @thorstenball deconstructs how the entire industry is pivoting to the same [---] lines of code. "There is no moat" -- pretty strong words. But I'm so excited. I want a native coding agent in emacs-lisp assuming it won't become the Singularity within days. https://ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent https://ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent https://ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent https://ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1912606144553734410) 2025-04-16T20:36Z 13.1K followers, 45.7K engagements "@michakaufman I don't think most people understand how serious this is. And of the ones who do I'm not sure they realize how _imminent_ it is" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1919449953694327055) 2025-05-05T17:51Z 13.3K followers, 83.4K engagements "I just put up a new blog post about the current rapid rise of Agentic vibe coding using autonomous agents. It's called "The Brute Squad": This is my follow-up to Revenge of the Junior Developer. More jokes more news maybe some insights. I hope you find it as fun to read as it was to write Enjoy. https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-brute-squad https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-brute-squad https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-brute-squad https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-brute-squad" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1935369683844350400) 2025-06-18T16:11Z 13.7K followers, 26.1K engagements "Serious question: does anyone else besides me run their coding agents with permissions checks disabled E.g. "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions" or putting "amp.commands.allowlist":"*" in your /.config/amp/settings.json. I've been doing it this way for at least six or eight weeks and never plan on going back. It's not that I trust them; I assume that at any given step they're about to erase my repo. But I have them checkpoint their work often enough that I have backstops. The speedup is phenomenal. The only thing slowing them down is you and how well you can keep their work streams full." [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1937620952747315308) 2025-06-24T21:16Z 15K followers, 15.7K engagements "@simonw "It's more than just an X it's a Y." Claude is the worst offender but they all do it. "It's not just a tool; it's an entirely new way to reenvision LLM bullshit." Once you see it you'll not stop seeing it. "It's more than just an idiom for the LLMs it's a new way to stupid."" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1938826265827647553) 2025-06-28T05:06Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements ""It's not just a retraining of your staff it's an entire re-envisioning of your workplace." "This isn't just good practice; it's essential self-preservation in this new era." LLMs all overuse this not-just-X-bigger-Y pattern to death. You will see it all over the place now. Forget em dashes "game changer" is the real giveaway for LLM generated text (especially for bots on here) Forget em dashes "game changer" is the real giveaway for LLM generated text (especially for bots on here)" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1938826887125704994) 2025-06-28T05:08Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements "I see it in almost every online article and essay now and it's a dead giveaway that Claude or some other frontier model wrote it. If you want to hide your tracks remove that pattern from your LLM's writing" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1938827246015508738) 2025-06-28T05:10Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements "@RealGeneKim and I are going to start posting regularly about our book Vibe Coding -- about the content of the book and also about the process of writing it. We used LLMs to draft text as part of the process and then we would completely rewrite it (by writing over each other palimpsest-style). It's now a complex process with rich tooling (a writer's workbench) that Gene posts about. During that time I learned to spot LLM writing and it makes me sick now. @simonw pointed out "game-changer" which is a big giveaway. But the "It's more than just an X it's a much bigger and more important Y"" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1938830875741110647) 2025-06-28T05:24Z 13.7K followers, [---] engagements "Coding agents it turns out are both terrible at working with long functions and great at generating long functions if you don't tell them not to. I've been in the habit of asking coding agents to review their code after generating it in several passes. I have them check for elegance robustness error handling documentation and a set of other quality metrics. I do this because they can only focus on one small thing at a time or else their quality goes to shite. So you ask them for correctness first and only then have them do other passes over the code to smooth the results. Unfortunately I" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1946388458324566042) 2025-07-19T01:55Z 14.7K followers, 28.2K engagements "http://x.com/i/article/1948276165103300609 http://x.com/i/article/1948276165103300609" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1948284140757057763) 2025-07-24T07:28Z 14.7K followers, 42.7K engagements "I came to the same conclusion as @michaelshuffett -- you hit a cognitive ceiling around 3-5 parallel workflows. Sometimes 2-3 will bog you down and sometimes you can hit 4-5 streams at once but either way you're always the bottleneck. You. Not them. And yet 95-99% of the time your personal involvement wasn't needed to keep them going; it could have been another agent. I'm looking forward to running lots of them but I don't know how any of us are going to afford it. Here's what I discovered after months of AI-assisted coding: @cursor_ai / Claude Code are insanely good. BUT managing multiple" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1949889158505517288) 2025-07-28T17:46Z 14.7K followers, 14.2K engagements "http://x.com/i/article/1953623802564554752 http://x.com/i/article/1953623802564554752" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1953627751237484802) 2025-08-08T01:22Z 14.9K followers, 10.5K engagements "Here's a bit of coding agent magic fairy dust for the day: Don't tell the agent to do something. Tell the agent to _begin_ doing something. The LLM will on average make wiser choices about how much work to bite off" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1956098816467460126) 2025-08-14T21:01Z 14.9K followers, 14.2K engagements "OK here's a new one. I lost a whole day in one coding agent workstream (which is like lost weeks in pre-2025 time) because get this. It had created a security system preventing my target application from running any tools but it forgot to tell me about it. It also forgot to tell itself. So by the next session neither of us knew this security system existed and for the rest of the day we fished for red herring and caught plenty. I finally solved it by forcing the agent to write an MVP integration test a minimal end to end demonstration that took me out of the loop. Just under [--] minutes later" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1964805936742384063) 2025-09-07T21:40Z 15.3K followers, 14.3K engagements "I've been using up to a dozen coding agents at a time for nearly a week straight. Just added my 13th. All working on the same project. It worked amazingly up to about 200k LOC and now they've begun savagely overwriting each other's work rather than try to deal with merge conflicts. Every few hours I have to shut them all down fix a trainwreck and bring them up one by one. But I've written a quarter million lines of heavily reviewed heavily tested carefully architected code in right around six days ever since I got a very particular bug up my ass. 250k lines of real code enterprise grade in a" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1965991591367295403) 2025-09-11T04:11Z 15.3K followers, 85.4K engagements "This is correct. We had this same reaction in the 1980s & 1990s when compilers generated assembly for us. We hated it. Looking at the generated code made us puke. It got better. Let's be honest. We are quickly approaching a point where we will ship whatever slop the agents produce as long as it meets the spec runs and has tests. But it's also code we won't be able to look at for five minutes without having to swallow hard and suppress our gag reflex. Let's be honest. We are quickly approaching a point where we will ship whatever slop the agents produce as long as it meets the spec runs and" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1966230719212220457) 2025-09-11T20:01Z 15.3K followers, 106.4K engagements "@GregMozart Y'all act like I haven't been in the industry for [--] years. I've written a million lines of handwritten code in my career. I've worked in senior roles at Amazon Google and several other big enterprises. So yeah it's a fuckin' self-assessment" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1966285999585259934) 2025-09-11T23:41Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements "I tried Claude Code today for the first time in a month or two and almost immediately it seems to have found a bug in itself" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1973894010898202669) 2025-10-02T23:33Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements "@AmpCode also has an Oracle built into its workflow -- it consults a different frontier model; currently the Oracle is configured as GPT-5. This has always been a game-changing difference because multiple models participate in all your designs which yields better outcomes on average. But today I noticed Amp's Oracle interactions have much like Amp's subagents reached an unprecedented level of observability within the CLI interface. Amp + Oracle + Batch Subagents == the most powerful coding tool in the world" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1973948056623366386) 2025-10-03T03:07Z 15.4K followers, [---] engagements "Hmmm after a lot of drama it seems the culprit may have been an "npx lint-staged" pre-commit hook that was reverting all changes including all attempts to disable the pre-commit hook. I have to say I really liked Node and TypeScript before I tried using them" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1973989797053214943) 2025-10-03T05:53Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements "OK so yeah to follow up on my cryptic last post which had people reaching out to see if I was hacked -- BAGS and the Creator Economy is one of the most fun posts I've written in a while. Enjoy https://steve-yegge.medium.com/bags-and-the-creator-economy-249b924a621a https://steve-yegge.medium.com/bags-and-the-creator-economy-249b924a621a" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2011632032284369305) 2026-01-15T02:50Z 32K followers, 610.1K engagements "I just released Beads a drop-in cognitive upgrade for your coding agent of choice. In a nutshell it is a magical 4-dimensional graph-based git-backed fairy-dusted issue-tracker database designed to let coding agents track all your work and never get lost again. Beads replaces that disgusting pile of half-eaten markdown files in your plans/ directory. You know you have one. Install the Beads binary tell your agent in to stop using Markdown and run bd quickstart and your agents will spontaneously get better at everything particularly long-horizon planning and keeping track of newly discovered" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1977645937225822664) 2025-10-13T08:01Z 32K followers, 152.7K engagements "It's been [--] days since I dropped Gas Town. The response has been off the charts. I've been working hard to keep up. Thanks to all the early adopters. I wrote up this survival guide. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/gas-town-emergency-user-manual-cf0e4556d74b https://steve-yegge.medium.com/gas-town-emergency-user-manual-cf0e4556d74b" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2011041322686353550) 2026-01-13T11:43Z 32K followers, 279K engagements "Hi $GAS fans thanks SO much for your amazing support I gotta split for a few hours to biz meetings and then I'll be back this afternoon with a huge post about BAGS. Gonna take this viral 🚀" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2011526125642793278) 2026-01-14T19:49Z 32K followers, 163.7K engagements "Starting now Gas Town tips and tricks. First trick: switching accounts because I have to do it every goddamn day from hitting session limits: - make sure all workers are idle and ready for a town restart - /logout from any worker's session which should kill its tmux - run gt shutdown --force --all - run claude naked in town root auth with new account and exit - run gt start --all This should restart all your workers and honor parked rigs and other settings. File GHIs if you find areas where restart could be smoother" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2012473819936825655) 2026-01-17T10:35Z 32K followers, 69.4K engagements "Agent UX tip of the day: Pave your Desire Paths. Watch the agents using your command-line tools. When they guess wrong about a flag or a subcommand or even a whole feature you should treat their hallucination as a "desire path" and pave it for them. Next time their hallucination won't be an error. Each time you do this cycle and smooth your Agent UX out a little more the agents get better at using your tool. It starts to work the way they work. I've been doing this for Beads for 2+ months and the agents almost never make mistakes with it now even though it hasn't even started making it into" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2005147544117268697) 2025-12-28T05:23Z 32K followers, 28K engagements "Happy New Year I've just launched my coding agent orchestrator Gas Town for anyone crazy enough to try it. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2006835043503845445) 2026-01-01T21:08Z 32K followers, 508.4K engagements "Day [--] of Gas Town. Community is taking off like fire and people haven't even come home from the holidays yet. is my latest post on Gas Town and how it's going to shape agentic coding in [----]. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-future-of-coding-agents-e9451a84207c https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-future-of-coding-agents-e9451a84207c" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2008002562650505233) 2026-01-05T02:28Z 32K followers, 68K engagements "Apologies to everyone using Gas Town who is being bitten by the murderous rampaging Deacon who is spree-killing all the other workers while on his patrol. I am as frustrated as you are. Fixes incoming in v0.4.0 but for now please run your town with no Deacon. https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2009108074062041255) 2026-01-08T03:41Z 32K followers, 60.9K engagements "Hi $GAS and CT community. I love this community but I'm the creator and sole maintainer of Gas Town which is going viral. It's a tremendous burden and is taking most of my day (and money). That's where my time has to go. I can't spend much time with CT. I will still drop the occasional blog post and join streams or podcasts. But I am dedicated to Gas Town and have to focus there. I hope you understand That's the life of the creator economy" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2012488266692587820) 2026-01-17T11:32Z 32K followers, 902.7K engagements "Update post for my imminent b-day: Shit is basically happening so fast that I have to post a gigantic goddamn post every week just to catch you up. So enjoy. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/steveys-birthday-blog-34f437139cb5 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/steveys-birthday-blog-34f437139cb5" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2013121892278993084) 2026-01-19T05:30Z 32K followers, 622.9K engagements "Sigh. I'm officially abandoning Ruby for scripting and will be porting many thousands of lines to "something else". I still like the language plenty but the ruby+gems setup on Macs is such a shitshow that I'm done. Forever unfortunately. @rubylangorg -- get your shit together" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1861876106833637440) 2024-11-27T20:53Z 15.9K followers, [----] engagements "Check out my latest article: Playing Chicken with AI via @LinkedIn -- it's about you https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/playing-chicken-ai-steve-yegge-ryt8f https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/playing-chicken-ai-steve-yegge-ryt8f" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1968347096408551631) 2025-09-17T16:11Z 16K followers, [----] engagements "I've written another article about Beads my drop-in memory upgrade for coding agents. I vibe coded Beads from concept/design to a thousand GitHub stars and fifty forks in just six days. How do I know it's the real deal How do YOU know It's simple. Ask your coding agent. Point them at and ask "would this help us" And then do what it says https://github.com/steveyegge/beads https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-beads-revolution-how-i-built-the-todo-system-that-ai-agents-actually-want-to-use-228a5f9be2a9" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1978335514039337380) 2025-10-15T05:41Z 16K followers, 20.1K engagements "I wrote a piece called Beads for Blobfish about how Markdown files are invading our planet and destroying all sentient life. I propose Beads as the bulwark. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/beads-for-blobfish-80c7a2977ffa https://steve-yegge.medium.com/beads-for-blobfish-80c7a2977ffa" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1980057453497881038) 2025-10-19T23:44Z 16K followers, 11.7K engagements "@vivekhaldar @RealGeneKim Thanks for the kind words @vivekhaldar But you have to tell us when you actually start vibe coding. :)" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1983626875600801829) 2025-10-29T20:07Z 16K followers, [---] engagements "I wrote a fun little post called Beads Blows Up: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/beads-blows-up-a0a61bb889b4 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/beads-blows-up-a0a61bb889b4" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1986372824613986314) 2025-11-06T09:59Z 16.1K followers, 11.7K engagements "I just finished writing "Cheese Wars: Rise of the Vibe Coder" which explores the important question of whether Big Tech giants would mind if most of humanity turned into cheese wheels. The post also offers tips for getting AI on your side once it's smarter than we are. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/cheese-wars-rise-of-the-vibe-coder-6839a6b15982 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/cheese-wars-rise-of-the-vibe-coder-6839a6b15982" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1990564501008363908) 2025-11-17T23:35Z 16.6K followers, 17.5K engagements "New article on Beads Best Practices: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/beads-best-practices-2db636b9760c https://steve-yegge.medium.com/beads-best-practices-2db636b9760c" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1992897878600339486) 2025-11-24T10:07Z 20.1K followers, 15.5K engagements "This is the first UI for Beads that I could see myself using. Pretty clever. And it's a Terminal UI I'm a huge fan of Steve Yegge's great beads project which is a task management system for use by coding agents. In fact I probably type or paste the string "beads" 500+ times a day nowadays across all my coding agent sessions (I'm juggling like [--] projects at the same time https://t.co/XhOh9hrdYv I'm a huge fan of Steve Yegge's great beads project which is a task management system for use by coding agents. In fact I probably type or paste the string "beads" 500+ times a day nowadays across all" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1993919120170209498) 2025-11-27T05:45Z 20.1K followers, 49.7K engagements "I had a scary dream about Claude Code last night. At first it was fun. I dreamed I could run a whole host of these coding agents each working on its own little part of my project like a sky-admiral running an armada from my sky-dashboard. In my dream my fleet of agents chewed through a hoary old code base like termites through a rotten log restoring it to a living tree while I kept supply lines open. Each termite was siphoning life for the tree straight from my wallet but it was worth every farthing and tuppence to restore that old code base to glory while I watched on. I loved my navy and" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1900430641927512111) 2025-03-14T06:15Z 29.6K followers, 12.5K engagements "I guess I can post this now that the dust has settled. So one of my favorite things to do is give my coding agents more and more permissions and freedom just to see how far I can push their productivity without going too far off the rails. It's a delicate balance. I haven't given them direct access to my bank account yet. But I did give one access to my Google Cloud production instances and systems. And it promptly wiped a production database password and locked my network. Now "regret" is a strong word and I hesitate to use it flippantly. But boy do I have regrets. See the thing is I always" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1946360175339974807) 2025-07-19T00:03Z 29.9K followers, 86.7K engagements "@0x_dyan @notthreadguy Happy to talk Gas Town and the future of coding" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2012071469145342111) 2026-01-16T07:56Z 31.9K followers, [----] engagements "@voooooogel wtaf please tell me this is fan fiction" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2014530148557848986) 2026-01-23T02:46Z 30K followers, 10.7K engagements "I noticed some similarities between how some friends of mine are working in a little apartment above a bakery and how Anthropic engineers seem to be working in a great big building with a bakery in it and I noticed some similarities. No. Not the bakery. Why would you think that. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2019701715050885270) 2026-02-06T09:16Z 31.1K followers, [---] engagements "@0x_dyan @notthreadguy Yo @notthreadguy bring me on your stream" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2012071282045747651) 2026-01-16T07:55Z 32K followers, 50.1K engagements "@doodlestein has done the world a great service and created a minimalist port of Beads to Rust. My feeling is that Beads was a discovery not an invention and it is an interface/protocol not a single implementation. It is the discovery that Git can be the universal federated distributed ledger and audit trail for all knowledge work sitting on a lightweight multigraph of bite-sized atomic tasks with an API surface that scratches just the right itches for coding agents. Beads is a rich flexible data plane for all agentic workflows whether they're manual solo workflows or large-scale agentic" [X Link](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2012974366188032144) 2026-01-18T19:44Z 32K followers, 35.7K engagements "I'm in Sydney this week with @RealGeneKim getting ready to conduct a week of Vibe Coding workshops compliments of Commonwealth Bank of Australia our generous sponsors for this trip. I realized this morning chatting with Gene that we've identified a bunch of new and very useful tips about agentic coding particularly with swarming which weren't in our Vibe Coding book. I took half a dozen of them and wrote them up in a new post. Here's the list; read the post if you'd like more details. [--]. Software is now throwaway expect [--] year shelf life [--]. Agent UX matters at least as much as Human UX 3." [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1997549673716805672) 2025-12-07T06:12Z 32K followers, 44.6K engagements "-- pretty good article on Beads and why you might want to try it with your agent. Beads works with all of them. https://open.substack.com/pub/lakshminp/p/why-your-ai-wakes-up-every-morning https://open.substack.com/pub/lakshminp/p/why-your-ai-wakes-up-every-morning" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1999584772264223078) 2025-12-12T20:58Z 32K followers, 35K engagements "Now multiply by 20-30 and you have Gas Town which runs all its Claude Code workers with --dangerously-skip-permissions. This is why I named it after Gas Town from Mad Max. claude --dangerously-skip-permissions https://t.co/SSozc5VR3C claude --dangerously-skip-permissions https://t.co/SSozc5VR3C" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2011566158680637637) 2026-01-14T22:28Z 32K followers, 87K engagements "This is my third $200/month Claude Pro Max plan. My first two have maxed out their weekly limits and now I'm about to hit a session limit in my third one. And I'm trying to dial UP my usage with Gas Town. Has anyone done the math to figure out when it becomes more economically sensible to buy the Teams package and give yourself all five seats" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2011681192895266909) 2026-01-15T06:05Z 32K followers, 340.7K engagements "I can't even begin to say how happy this makes me. claude code and gas town are incredible and i've been trying to scale up my usage but im running into this one problem and was wondering if this is also happening to anyone else so to explain for context basically i've been slowly scaling my claude code usage up to more and claude code and gas town are incredible and i've been trying to scale up my usage but im running into this one problem and was wondering if this is also happening to anyone else so to explain for context basically i've been slowly scaling my claude code usage up to more and" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2014530592134910215) 2026-01-23T02:48Z 32K followers, 98.5K engagements "I noticed an analogy between how some friends of mine are working in a little apartment above a bakery and how Anthropic engineers seem to be working in a great big building with a bakery in it and I noticed some similarities. No. Not the bakery. Why would you think that. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019701883603202449) 2026-02-06T09:17Z 32K followers, 366.4K engagements "Preach. https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022466674071605420) 2026-02-14T00:23Z 32K followers, 22.5K engagements "Preach. https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022466674071605420) 2026-02-14T00:23Z 32K followers, 22.5K engagements "Something Big Is Happening Think back to February [----]. If you were paying close attention you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us weren't paying close attention. The stock http://x.com/i/article/2021095128832622592 http://x.com/i/article/2021095128832622592" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021256989876109403) 2026-02-10T16:16Z 325.7K followers, 84.3M engagements "I noticed an analogy between how some friends of mine are working in a little apartment above a bakery and how Anthropic engineers seem to be working in a great big building with a bakery in it and I noticed some similarities. No. Not the bakery. Why would you think that. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019701883603202449) 2026-02-06T09:17Z 32K followers, 366.4K engagements "I can't even begin to say how happy this makes me. claude code and gas town are incredible and i've been trying to scale up my usage but im running into this one problem and was wondering if this is also happening to anyone else so to explain for context basically i've been slowly scaling my claude code usage up to more and claude code and gas town are incredible and i've been trying to scale up my usage but im running into this one problem and was wondering if this is also happening to anyone else so to explain for context basically i've been slowly scaling my claude code usage up to more and" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2014530592134910215) 2026-01-23T02:48Z 32K followers, 98.5K engagements "claude code and gas town are incredible and i've been trying to scale up my usage but im running into this one problem and was wondering if this is also happening to anyone else so to explain for context basically i've been slowly scaling my claude code usage up to more and more parallel instances. i started with one when they launched it and then with the model upgrades was starting to run two three five in concert getting more and more done. but like a lot of people opus [---] really changed everything for me and the bottleneck quickly became my ability to personally supervise all these" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2014189072647078053) 2026-01-22T04:11Z 18.9K followers, 284.3K engagements "Update post for my imminent b-day: Shit is basically happening so fast that I have to post a gigantic goddamn post every week just to catch you up. So enjoy. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/steveys-birthday-blog-34f437139cb5 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/steveys-birthday-blog-34f437139cb5" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2013121892278993084) 2026-01-19T05:30Z 32K followers, 622.9K engagements "Hi $GAS and CT community. I love this community but I'm the creator and sole maintainer of Gas Town which is going viral. It's a tremendous burden and is taking most of my day (and money). That's where my time has to go. I can't spend much time with CT. I will still drop the occasional blog post and join streams or podcasts. But I am dedicated to Gas Town and have to focus there. I hope you understand That's the life of the creator economy" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2012488266692587820) 2026-01-17T11:32Z 32K followers, 902.7K engagements "Starting now Gas Town tips and tricks. First trick: switching accounts because I have to do it every goddamn day from hitting session limits: - make sure all workers are idle and ready for a town restart - /logout from any worker's session which should kill its tmux - run gt shutdown --force --all - run claude naked in town root auth with new account and exit - run gt start --all This should restart all your workers and honor parked rigs and other settings. File GHIs if you find areas where restart could be smoother" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2012473819936825655) 2026-01-17T10:35Z 32K followers, 69.4K engagements "This is my third $200/month Claude Pro Max plan. My first two have maxed out their weekly limits and now I'm about to hit a session limit in my third one. And I'm trying to dial UP my usage with Gas Town. Has anyone done the math to figure out when it becomes more economically sensible to buy the Teams package and give yourself all five seats" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2011681192895266909) 2026-01-15T06:05Z 32K followers, 340.7K engagements "OK so yeah to follow up on my cryptic last post which had people reaching out to see if I was hacked -- BAGS and the Creator Economy is one of the most fun posts I've written in a while. Enjoy https://steve-yegge.medium.com/bags-and-the-creator-economy-249b924a621a https://steve-yegge.medium.com/bags-and-the-creator-economy-249b924a621a" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2011632032284369305) 2026-01-15T02:50Z 32K followers, 610.1K engagements "Now multiply by 20-30 and you have Gas Town which runs all its Claude Code workers with --dangerously-skip-permissions. This is why I named it after Gas Town from Mad Max. claude --dangerously-skip-permissions https://t.co/SSozc5VR3C claude --dangerously-skip-permissions https://t.co/SSozc5VR3C" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2011566158680637637) 2026-01-14T22:28Z 32K followers, 87K engagements "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2011248191140933995) 2026-01-14T01:25Z 12.4K followers, 718.6K engagements "Hi $GAS fans thanks SO much for your amazing support I gotta split for a few hours to biz meetings and then I'll be back this afternoon with a huge post about BAGS. Gonna take this viral 🚀" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2011526125642793278) 2026-01-14T19:49Z 32K followers, 163.7K engagements "It's been [--] days since I dropped Gas Town. The response has been off the charts. I've been working hard to keep up. Thanks to all the early adopters. I wrote up this survival guide. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/gas-town-emergency-user-manual-cf0e4556d74b https://steve-yegge.medium.com/gas-town-emergency-user-manual-cf0e4556d74b" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2011041322686353550) 2026-01-13T11:43Z 32K followers, 279K engagements "Apologies to everyone using Gas Town who is being bitten by the murderous rampaging Deacon who is spree-killing all the other workers while on his patrol. I am as frustrated as you are. Fixes incoming in v0.4.0 but for now please run your town with no Deacon. https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2009108074062041255) 2026-01-08T03:41Z 32K followers, 60.9K engagements "Day [--] of Gas Town. Community is taking off like fire and people haven't even come home from the holidays yet. is my latest post on Gas Town and how it's going to shape agentic coding in [----]. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-future-of-coding-agents-e9451a84207c https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-future-of-coding-agents-e9451a84207c" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2008002562650505233) 2026-01-05T02:28Z 32K followers, 68K engagements "Happy New Year I've just launched my coding agent orchestrator Gas Town for anyone crazy enough to try it. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2006835043503845445) 2026-01-01T21:08Z 32K followers, 508.4K engagements "Agent UX tip of the day: Pave your Desire Paths. Watch the agents using your command-line tools. When they guess wrong about a flag or a subcommand or even a whole feature you should treat their hallucination as a "desire path" and pave it for them. Next time their hallucination won't be an error. Each time you do this cycle and smooth your Agent UX out a little more the agents get better at using your tool. It starts to work the way they work. I've been doing this for Beads for 2+ months and the agents almost never make mistakes with it now even though it hasn't even started making it into" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2005147544117268697) 2025-12-28T05:23Z 32K followers, 28K engagements "-- pretty good article on Beads and why you might want to try it with your agent. Beads works with all of them. https://open.substack.com/pub/lakshminp/p/why-your-ai-wakes-up-every-morning https://open.substack.com/pub/lakshminp/p/why-your-ai-wakes-up-every-morning" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1999584772264223078) 2025-12-12T20:58Z 32K followers, 35K engagements "I'm in Sydney this week with @RealGeneKim getting ready to conduct a week of Vibe Coding workshops compliments of Commonwealth Bank of Australia our generous sponsors for this trip. I realized this morning chatting with Gene that we've identified a bunch of new and very useful tips about agentic coding particularly with swarming which weren't in our Vibe Coding book. I took half a dozen of them and wrote them up in a new post. Here's the list; read the post if you'd like more details. [--]. Software is now throwaway expect [--] year shelf life [--]. Agent UX matters at least as much as Human UX 3." [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1997549673716805672) 2025-12-07T06:12Z 32K followers, 44.6K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @realgenekim @echodotmute @gergelyorosz @simonw @ampcode @0xdyan @notthreadguy @techmeme @brendanplayford @iruletrenches @mikehostetler @jaybobzin @eagleeyescrypto @sourcegraphcody @steveyegge @blinkist @mattbeane @jamescham @thorstenball @michakaufman
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"The outcome of this WSB drama should be that short-selling should be made illegal. It's that simple. Shorting is legalized institutionalized gambling. It has no place in a properly-functioning market. But somehow I think that's not what's going to happen"
X Link 2021-01-28T04:53Z 10.6K followers, [--] engagements
"I was privileged to be the guest on today's Software Misadventures podcast with Guang and Ronak where we talk about writing AI and of course @SourcegraphCody. This whole episode was a lot of fun. Thanks for having me https://softwaremisadventures.com/p/steve-yegge-ai-midlife-crisis https://softwaremisadventures.com/p/steve-yegge-ai-midlife-crisis"
X Link 2024-08-27T19:37Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Really appreciate all the incredible work @RealGeneKim put into this. We'll have a lot more to share about this in the coming days. Stay tuned In September I got the chance to pair program for two hours with the legendary Steve Yegge (@Steve_Yegge) where he coached me on what he calls CHOP or chat-oriented programming and built something that Ive wanted to build for nearly a year. I learned how to use In September I got the chance to pair program for two hours with the legendary Steve Yegge (@Steve_Yegge) where he coached me on what he calls CHOP or chat-oriented programming and built"
X Link 2024-11-24T02:19Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Don't forget to register for our Virtual Code AI Summit on Dec 12th. If you want to know where programming is headed it's the place to be Be there or b2. See you there https://sourcegraph.registration.goldcast.io/events/b650937d-ba9f-40ce-9429-35c3539a5bb1utm_medium=social&utm_source=social&utm_campaign=Steve_Yegge https://sourcegraph.registration.goldcast.io/events/b650937d-ba9f-40ce-9429-35c3539a5bb1utm_medium=social&utm_source=social&utm_campaign=Steve_Yegge"
X Link 2024-11-26T18:10Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"http://x.com/i/article/1866639850155421696 http://x.com/i/article/1866639850155421696"
X Link 2024-12-11T00:37Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Has anyone else noticed that GenAI gives you Google Maps-like zooming capabilities over long-form text like articles blogs books Information zoom levels have always had to be implemented by hand. You can create an abridged edition of a book which is like zooming out halfway-ish. Or you can get CliffsNotes or other summaries that are zoomed out say 90%. But it was always a ton of human labor so most of the time you just have the one zoom level or a couple. With LLMs it's now a continuum. You can "zoom out" to any level you like by asking the LLM to summarize the text at that level. And you can"
X Link 2024-12-18T01:26Z 10.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@mattbeane @jamescham Actually it calls CHOP "AI-Assisted Programming" further on. Amazing stuff"
X Link 2025-02-13T05:58Z 15K followers, [---] engagements
"I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days and it has been absolutely ruthless in chewing through legacy bugs in my gnarly old code base. It's like a wood chipper fueled by dollars. It can power through shockingly impressive tasks using nothing but chat. You don't even select context. You just open your heart and your wallet and Claude Code takes the wheel. It even helps keep you in the loop by prompting you every eight seconds to ask if it can use basic read-only commands that you would allow anyone even North Korean hackers to run on your machine. But you learn to watch it carefully"
X Link 2025-03-09T09:56Z 12.9K followers, 305K engagements
"Hi all I just dropped a new blog post: This one's a beehive-kicker for sure. Hope you like it and find it enlightening even if you don't agree with all of it. https://sourcegraph.com/blog/revenge-of-the-junior-developer https://sourcegraph.com/blog/revenge-of-the-junior-developer"
X Link 2025-03-22T17:44Z 15K followers, 32.5K engagements
"I almost want to hoard this for myself but: is amazing. @thorstenball deconstructs how the entire industry is pivoting to the same [---] lines of code. "There is no moat" -- pretty strong words. But I'm so excited. I want a native coding agent in emacs-lisp assuming it won't become the Singularity within days. https://ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent https://ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent https://ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent https://ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent"
X Link 2025-04-16T20:36Z 13.1K followers, 45.7K engagements
"@michakaufman I don't think most people understand how serious this is. And of the ones who do I'm not sure they realize how imminent it is"
X Link 2025-05-05T17:51Z 13.3K followers, 83.4K engagements
"I just put up a new blog post about the current rapid rise of Agentic vibe coding using autonomous agents. It's called "The Brute Squad": This is my follow-up to Revenge of the Junior Developer. More jokes more news maybe some insights. I hope you find it as fun to read as it was to write Enjoy. https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-brute-squad https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-brute-squad https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-brute-squad https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-brute-squad"
X Link 2025-06-18T16:11Z 13.7K followers, 26.1K engagements
"Serious question: does anyone else besides me run their coding agents with permissions checks disabled E.g. "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions" or putting "amp.commands.allowlist":"*" in your /.config/amp/settings.json. I've been doing it this way for at least six or eight weeks and never plan on going back. It's not that I trust them; I assume that at any given step they're about to erase my repo. But I have them checkpoint their work often enough that I have backstops. The speedup is phenomenal. The only thing slowing them down is you and how well you can keep their work streams full."
X Link 2025-06-24T21:16Z 15K followers, 15.7K engagements
"@simonw "It's more than just an X it's a Y." Claude is the worst offender but they all do it. "It's not just a tool; it's an entirely new way to reenvision LLM bullshit." Once you see it you'll not stop seeing it. "It's more than just an idiom for the LLMs it's a new way to stupid.""
X Link 2025-06-28T05:06Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
""It's not just a retraining of your staff it's an entire re-envisioning of your workplace." "This isn't just good practice; it's essential self-preservation in this new era." LLMs all overuse this not-just-X-bigger-Y pattern to death. You will see it all over the place now. Forget em dashes "game changer" is the real giveaway for LLM generated text (especially for bots on here) Forget em dashes "game changer" is the real giveaway for LLM generated text (especially for bots on here)"
X Link 2025-06-28T05:08Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"I see it in almost every online article and essay now and it's a dead giveaway that Claude or some other frontier model wrote it. If you want to hide your tracks remove that pattern from your LLM's writing"
X Link 2025-06-28T05:10Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@RealGeneKim and I are going to start posting regularly about our book Vibe Coding -- about the content of the book and also about the process of writing it. We used LLMs to draft text as part of the process and then we would completely rewrite it (by writing over each other palimpsest-style). It's now a complex process with rich tooling (a writer's workbench) that Gene posts about. During that time I learned to spot LLM writing and it makes me sick now. @simonw pointed out "game-changer" which is a big giveaway. But the "It's more than just an X it's a much bigger and more important Y""
X Link 2025-06-28T05:24Z 13.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Coding agents it turns out are both terrible at working with long functions and great at generating long functions if you don't tell them not to. I've been in the habit of asking coding agents to review their code after generating it in several passes. I have them check for elegance robustness error handling documentation and a set of other quality metrics. I do this because they can only focus on one small thing at a time or else their quality goes to shite. So you ask them for correctness first and only then have them do other passes over the code to smooth the results. Unfortunately I"
X Link 2025-07-19T01:55Z 14.7K followers, 28.2K engagements
"http://x.com/i/article/1948276165103300609 http://x.com/i/article/1948276165103300609"
X Link 2025-07-24T07:28Z 14.7K followers, 42.7K engagements
"I came to the same conclusion as @michaelshuffett -- you hit a cognitive ceiling around 3-5 parallel workflows. Sometimes 2-3 will bog you down and sometimes you can hit 4-5 streams at once but either way you're always the bottleneck. You. Not them. And yet 95-99% of the time your personal involvement wasn't needed to keep them going; it could have been another agent. I'm looking forward to running lots of them but I don't know how any of us are going to afford it. Here's what I discovered after months of AI-assisted coding: @cursor_ai / Claude Code are insanely good. BUT managing multiple"
X Link 2025-07-28T17:46Z 14.7K followers, 14.2K engagements
"http://x.com/i/article/1953623802564554752 http://x.com/i/article/1953623802564554752"
X Link 2025-08-08T01:22Z 14.9K followers, 10.5K engagements
"Here's a bit of coding agent magic fairy dust for the day: Don't tell the agent to do something. Tell the agent to begin doing something. The LLM will on average make wiser choices about how much work to bite off"
X Link 2025-08-14T21:01Z 14.9K followers, 14.2K engagements
"OK here's a new one. I lost a whole day in one coding agent workstream (which is like lost weeks in pre-2025 time) because get this. It had created a security system preventing my target application from running any tools but it forgot to tell me about it. It also forgot to tell itself. So by the next session neither of us knew this security system existed and for the rest of the day we fished for red herring and caught plenty. I finally solved it by forcing the agent to write an MVP integration test a minimal end to end demonstration that took me out of the loop. Just under [--] minutes later"
X Link 2025-09-07T21:40Z 15.3K followers, 14.3K engagements
"I've been using up to a dozen coding agents at a time for nearly a week straight. Just added my 13th. All working on the same project. It worked amazingly up to about 200k LOC and now they've begun savagely overwriting each other's work rather than try to deal with merge conflicts. Every few hours I have to shut them all down fix a trainwreck and bring them up one by one. But I've written a quarter million lines of heavily reviewed heavily tested carefully architected code in right around six days ever since I got a very particular bug up my ass. 250k lines of real code enterprise grade in a"
X Link 2025-09-11T04:11Z 15.3K followers, 85.4K engagements
"This is correct. We had this same reaction in the 1980s & 1990s when compilers generated assembly for us. We hated it. Looking at the generated code made us puke. It got better. Let's be honest. We are quickly approaching a point where we will ship whatever slop the agents produce as long as it meets the spec runs and has tests. But it's also code we won't be able to look at for five minutes without having to swallow hard and suppress our gag reflex. Let's be honest. We are quickly approaching a point where we will ship whatever slop the agents produce as long as it meets the spec runs and"
X Link 2025-09-11T20:01Z 15.3K followers, 106.4K engagements
"@GregMozart Y'all act like I haven't been in the industry for [--] years. I've written a million lines of handwritten code in my career. I've worked in senior roles at Amazon Google and several other big enterprises. So yeah it's a fuckin' self-assessment"
X Link 2025-09-11T23:41Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"I tried Claude Code today for the first time in a month or two and almost immediately it seems to have found a bug in itself"
X Link 2025-10-02T23:33Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@AmpCode also has an Oracle built into its workflow -- it consults a different frontier model; currently the Oracle is configured as GPT-5. This has always been a game-changing difference because multiple models participate in all your designs which yields better outcomes on average. But today I noticed Amp's Oracle interactions have much like Amp's subagents reached an unprecedented level of observability within the CLI interface. Amp + Oracle + Batch Subagents == the most powerful coding tool in the world"
X Link 2025-10-03T03:07Z 15.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Hmmm after a lot of drama it seems the culprit may have been an "npx lint-staged" pre-commit hook that was reverting all changes including all attempts to disable the pre-commit hook. I have to say I really liked Node and TypeScript before I tried using them"
X Link 2025-10-03T05:53Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements
"OK so yeah to follow up on my cryptic last post which had people reaching out to see if I was hacked -- BAGS and the Creator Economy is one of the most fun posts I've written in a while. Enjoy https://steve-yegge.medium.com/bags-and-the-creator-economy-249b924a621a https://steve-yegge.medium.com/bags-and-the-creator-economy-249b924a621a"
X Link 2026-01-15T02:50Z 32K followers, 610.1K engagements
"I just released Beads a drop-in cognitive upgrade for your coding agent of choice. In a nutshell it is a magical 4-dimensional graph-based git-backed fairy-dusted issue-tracker database designed to let coding agents track all your work and never get lost again. Beads replaces that disgusting pile of half-eaten markdown files in your plans/ directory. You know you have one. Install the Beads binary tell your agent in to stop using Markdown and run bd quickstart and your agents will spontaneously get better at everything particularly long-horizon planning and keeping track of newly discovered"
X Link 2025-10-13T08:01Z 32K followers, 152.7K engagements
"It's been [--] days since I dropped Gas Town. The response has been off the charts. I've been working hard to keep up. Thanks to all the early adopters. I wrote up this survival guide. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/gas-town-emergency-user-manual-cf0e4556d74b https://steve-yegge.medium.com/gas-town-emergency-user-manual-cf0e4556d74b"
X Link 2026-01-13T11:43Z 32K followers, 279K engagements
"Hi $GAS fans thanks SO much for your amazing support I gotta split for a few hours to biz meetings and then I'll be back this afternoon with a huge post about BAGS. Gonna take this viral 🚀"
X Link 2026-01-14T19:49Z 32K followers, 163.7K engagements
"Starting now Gas Town tips and tricks. First trick: switching accounts because I have to do it every goddamn day from hitting session limits: - make sure all workers are idle and ready for a town restart - /logout from any worker's session which should kill its tmux - run gt shutdown --force --all - run claude naked in town root auth with new account and exit - run gt start --all This should restart all your workers and honor parked rigs and other settings. File GHIs if you find areas where restart could be smoother"
X Link 2026-01-17T10:35Z 32K followers, 69.4K engagements
"Agent UX tip of the day: Pave your Desire Paths. Watch the agents using your command-line tools. When they guess wrong about a flag or a subcommand or even a whole feature you should treat their hallucination as a "desire path" and pave it for them. Next time their hallucination won't be an error. Each time you do this cycle and smooth your Agent UX out a little more the agents get better at using your tool. It starts to work the way they work. I've been doing this for Beads for 2+ months and the agents almost never make mistakes with it now even though it hasn't even started making it into"
X Link 2025-12-28T05:23Z 32K followers, 28K engagements
"Happy New Year I've just launched my coding agent orchestrator Gas Town for anyone crazy enough to try it. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04"
X Link 2026-01-01T21:08Z 32K followers, 508.4K engagements
"Day [--] of Gas Town. Community is taking off like fire and people haven't even come home from the holidays yet. is my latest post on Gas Town and how it's going to shape agentic coding in [----]. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-future-of-coding-agents-e9451a84207c https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-future-of-coding-agents-e9451a84207c"
X Link 2026-01-05T02:28Z 32K followers, 68K engagements
"Apologies to everyone using Gas Town who is being bitten by the murderous rampaging Deacon who is spree-killing all the other workers while on his patrol. I am as frustrated as you are. Fixes incoming in v0.4.0 but for now please run your town with no Deacon. https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown"
X Link 2026-01-08T03:41Z 32K followers, 60.9K engagements
"Hi $GAS and CT community. I love this community but I'm the creator and sole maintainer of Gas Town which is going viral. It's a tremendous burden and is taking most of my day (and money). That's where my time has to go. I can't spend much time with CT. I will still drop the occasional blog post and join streams or podcasts. But I am dedicated to Gas Town and have to focus there. I hope you understand That's the life of the creator economy"
X Link 2026-01-17T11:32Z 32K followers, 902.7K engagements
"Update post for my imminent b-day: Shit is basically happening so fast that I have to post a gigantic goddamn post every week just to catch you up. So enjoy. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/steveys-birthday-blog-34f437139cb5 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/steveys-birthday-blog-34f437139cb5"
X Link 2026-01-19T05:30Z 32K followers, 622.9K engagements
"Sigh. I'm officially abandoning Ruby for scripting and will be porting many thousands of lines to "something else". I still like the language plenty but the ruby+gems setup on Macs is such a shitshow that I'm done. Forever unfortunately. @rubylangorg -- get your shit together"
X Link 2024-11-27T20:53Z 15.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Check out my latest article: Playing Chicken with AI via @LinkedIn -- it's about you https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/playing-chicken-ai-steve-yegge-ryt8f https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/playing-chicken-ai-steve-yegge-ryt8f"
X Link 2025-09-17T16:11Z 16K followers, [----] engagements
"I've written another article about Beads my drop-in memory upgrade for coding agents. I vibe coded Beads from concept/design to a thousand GitHub stars and fifty forks in just six days. How do I know it's the real deal How do YOU know It's simple. Ask your coding agent. Point them at and ask "would this help us" And then do what it says https://github.com/steveyegge/beads https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-beads-revolution-how-i-built-the-todo-system-that-ai-agents-actually-want-to-use-228a5f9be2a9"
X Link 2025-10-15T05:41Z 16K followers, 20.1K engagements
"I wrote a piece called Beads for Blobfish about how Markdown files are invading our planet and destroying all sentient life. I propose Beads as the bulwark. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/beads-for-blobfish-80c7a2977ffa https://steve-yegge.medium.com/beads-for-blobfish-80c7a2977ffa"
X Link 2025-10-19T23:44Z 16K followers, 11.7K engagements
"@vivekhaldar @RealGeneKim Thanks for the kind words @vivekhaldar But you have to tell us when you actually start vibe coding. :)"
X Link 2025-10-29T20:07Z 16K followers, [---] engagements
"I wrote a fun little post called Beads Blows Up: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/beads-blows-up-a0a61bb889b4 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/beads-blows-up-a0a61bb889b4"
X Link 2025-11-06T09:59Z 16.1K followers, 11.7K engagements
"I just finished writing "Cheese Wars: Rise of the Vibe Coder" which explores the important question of whether Big Tech giants would mind if most of humanity turned into cheese wheels. The post also offers tips for getting AI on your side once it's smarter than we are. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/cheese-wars-rise-of-the-vibe-coder-6839a6b15982 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/cheese-wars-rise-of-the-vibe-coder-6839a6b15982"
X Link 2025-11-17T23:35Z 16.6K followers, 17.5K engagements
"New article on Beads Best Practices: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/beads-best-practices-2db636b9760c https://steve-yegge.medium.com/beads-best-practices-2db636b9760c"
X Link 2025-11-24T10:07Z 20.1K followers, 15.5K engagements
"This is the first UI for Beads that I could see myself using. Pretty clever. And it's a Terminal UI I'm a huge fan of Steve Yegge's great beads project which is a task management system for use by coding agents. In fact I probably type or paste the string "beads" 500+ times a day nowadays across all my coding agent sessions (I'm juggling like [--] projects at the same time https://t.co/XhOh9hrdYv I'm a huge fan of Steve Yegge's great beads project which is a task management system for use by coding agents. In fact I probably type or paste the string "beads" 500+ times a day nowadays across all"
X Link 2025-11-27T05:45Z 20.1K followers, 49.7K engagements
"I had a scary dream about Claude Code last night. At first it was fun. I dreamed I could run a whole host of these coding agents each working on its own little part of my project like a sky-admiral running an armada from my sky-dashboard. In my dream my fleet of agents chewed through a hoary old code base like termites through a rotten log restoring it to a living tree while I kept supply lines open. Each termite was siphoning life for the tree straight from my wallet but it was worth every farthing and tuppence to restore that old code base to glory while I watched on. I loved my navy and"
X Link 2025-03-14T06:15Z 29.6K followers, 12.5K engagements
"I guess I can post this now that the dust has settled. So one of my favorite things to do is give my coding agents more and more permissions and freedom just to see how far I can push their productivity without going too far off the rails. It's a delicate balance. I haven't given them direct access to my bank account yet. But I did give one access to my Google Cloud production instances and systems. And it promptly wiped a production database password and locked my network. Now "regret" is a strong word and I hesitate to use it flippantly. But boy do I have regrets. See the thing is I always"
X Link 2025-07-19T00:03Z 29.9K followers, 86.7K engagements
"@0x_dyan @notthreadguy Happy to talk Gas Town and the future of coding"
X Link 2026-01-16T07:56Z 31.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@voooooogel wtaf please tell me this is fan fiction"
X Link 2026-01-23T02:46Z 30K followers, 10.7K engagements
"I noticed some similarities between how some friends of mine are working in a little apartment above a bakery and how Anthropic engineers seem to be working in a great big building with a bakery in it and I noticed some similarities. No. Not the bakery. Why would you think that. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:16Z 31.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@0x_dyan @notthreadguy Yo @notthreadguy bring me on your stream"
X Link 2026-01-16T07:55Z 32K followers, 50.1K engagements
"@doodlestein has done the world a great service and created a minimalist port of Beads to Rust. My feeling is that Beads was a discovery not an invention and it is an interface/protocol not a single implementation. It is the discovery that Git can be the universal federated distributed ledger and audit trail for all knowledge work sitting on a lightweight multigraph of bite-sized atomic tasks with an API surface that scratches just the right itches for coding agents. Beads is a rich flexible data plane for all agentic workflows whether they're manual solo workflows or large-scale agentic"
X Link 2026-01-18T19:44Z 32K followers, 35.7K engagements
"I'm in Sydney this week with @RealGeneKim getting ready to conduct a week of Vibe Coding workshops compliments of Commonwealth Bank of Australia our generous sponsors for this trip. I realized this morning chatting with Gene that we've identified a bunch of new and very useful tips about agentic coding particularly with swarming which weren't in our Vibe Coding book. I took half a dozen of them and wrote them up in a new post. Here's the list; read the post if you'd like more details. [--]. Software is now throwaway expect [--] year shelf life [--]. Agent UX matters at least as much as Human UX 3."
X Link 2025-12-07T06:12Z 32K followers, 44.6K engagements
"-- pretty good article on Beads and why you might want to try it with your agent. Beads works with all of them. https://open.substack.com/pub/lakshminp/p/why-your-ai-wakes-up-every-morning https://open.substack.com/pub/lakshminp/p/why-your-ai-wakes-up-every-morning"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:58Z 32K followers, 35K engagements
"Now multiply by 20-30 and you have Gas Town which runs all its Claude Code workers with --dangerously-skip-permissions. This is why I named it after Gas Town from Mad Max. claude --dangerously-skip-permissions https://t.co/SSozc5VR3C claude --dangerously-skip-permissions https://t.co/SSozc5VR3C"
X Link 2026-01-14T22:28Z 32K followers, 87K engagements
"This is my third $200/month Claude Pro Max plan. My first two have maxed out their weekly limits and now I'm about to hit a session limit in my third one. And I'm trying to dial UP my usage with Gas Town. Has anyone done the math to figure out when it becomes more economically sensible to buy the Teams package and give yourself all five seats"
X Link 2026-01-15T06:05Z 32K followers, 340.7K engagements
"I can't even begin to say how happy this makes me. claude code and gas town are incredible and i've been trying to scale up my usage but im running into this one problem and was wondering if this is also happening to anyone else so to explain for context basically i've been slowly scaling my claude code usage up to more and claude code and gas town are incredible and i've been trying to scale up my usage but im running into this one problem and was wondering if this is also happening to anyone else so to explain for context basically i've been slowly scaling my claude code usage up to more and"
X Link 2026-01-23T02:48Z 32K followers, 98.5K engagements
"I noticed an analogy between how some friends of mine are working in a little apartment above a bakery and how Anthropic engineers seem to be working in a great big building with a bakery in it and I noticed some similarities. No. Not the bakery. Why would you think that. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:17Z 32K followers, 366.4K engagements
"Preach. https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:23Z 32K followers, 22.5K engagements
"Preach. https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:23Z 32K followers, 22.5K engagements
"Something Big Is Happening Think back to February [----]. If you were paying close attention you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us weren't paying close attention. The stock http://x.com/i/article/2021095128832622592 http://x.com/i/article/2021095128832622592"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:16Z 325.7K followers, 84.3M engagements
"I noticed an analogy between how some friends of mine are working in a little apartment above a bakery and how Anthropic engineers seem to be working in a great big building with a bakery in it and I noticed some similarities. No. Not the bakery. Why would you think that. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:17Z 32K followers, 366.4K engagements
"I can't even begin to say how happy this makes me. claude code and gas town are incredible and i've been trying to scale up my usage but im running into this one problem and was wondering if this is also happening to anyone else so to explain for context basically i've been slowly scaling my claude code usage up to more and claude code and gas town are incredible and i've been trying to scale up my usage but im running into this one problem and was wondering if this is also happening to anyone else so to explain for context basically i've been slowly scaling my claude code usage up to more and"
X Link 2026-01-23T02:48Z 32K followers, 98.5K engagements
"claude code and gas town are incredible and i've been trying to scale up my usage but im running into this one problem and was wondering if this is also happening to anyone else so to explain for context basically i've been slowly scaling my claude code usage up to more and more parallel instances. i started with one when they launched it and then with the model upgrades was starting to run two three five in concert getting more and more done. but like a lot of people opus [---] really changed everything for me and the bottleneck quickly became my ability to personally supervise all these"
X Link 2026-01-22T04:11Z 18.9K followers, 284.3K engagements
"Update post for my imminent b-day: Shit is basically happening so fast that I have to post a gigantic goddamn post every week just to catch you up. So enjoy. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/steveys-birthday-blog-34f437139cb5 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/steveys-birthday-blog-34f437139cb5"
X Link 2026-01-19T05:30Z 32K followers, 622.9K engagements
"Hi $GAS and CT community. I love this community but I'm the creator and sole maintainer of Gas Town which is going viral. It's a tremendous burden and is taking most of my day (and money). That's where my time has to go. I can't spend much time with CT. I will still drop the occasional blog post and join streams or podcasts. But I am dedicated to Gas Town and have to focus there. I hope you understand That's the life of the creator economy"
X Link 2026-01-17T11:32Z 32K followers, 902.7K engagements
"Starting now Gas Town tips and tricks. First trick: switching accounts because I have to do it every goddamn day from hitting session limits: - make sure all workers are idle and ready for a town restart - /logout from any worker's session which should kill its tmux - run gt shutdown --force --all - run claude naked in town root auth with new account and exit - run gt start --all This should restart all your workers and honor parked rigs and other settings. File GHIs if you find areas where restart could be smoother"
X Link 2026-01-17T10:35Z 32K followers, 69.4K engagements
"This is my third $200/month Claude Pro Max plan. My first two have maxed out their weekly limits and now I'm about to hit a session limit in my third one. And I'm trying to dial UP my usage with Gas Town. Has anyone done the math to figure out when it becomes more economically sensible to buy the Teams package and give yourself all five seats"
X Link 2026-01-15T06:05Z 32K followers, 340.7K engagements
"OK so yeah to follow up on my cryptic last post which had people reaching out to see if I was hacked -- BAGS and the Creator Economy is one of the most fun posts I've written in a while. Enjoy https://steve-yegge.medium.com/bags-and-the-creator-economy-249b924a621a https://steve-yegge.medium.com/bags-and-the-creator-economy-249b924a621a"
X Link 2026-01-15T02:50Z 32K followers, 610.1K engagements
"Now multiply by 20-30 and you have Gas Town which runs all its Claude Code workers with --dangerously-skip-permissions. This is why I named it after Gas Town from Mad Max. claude --dangerously-skip-permissions https://t.co/SSozc5VR3C claude --dangerously-skip-permissions https://t.co/SSozc5VR3C"
X Link 2026-01-14T22:28Z 32K followers, 87K engagements
"claude --dangerously-skip-permissions"
X Link 2026-01-14T01:25Z 12.4K followers, 718.6K engagements
"Hi $GAS fans thanks SO much for your amazing support I gotta split for a few hours to biz meetings and then I'll be back this afternoon with a huge post about BAGS. Gonna take this viral 🚀"
X Link 2026-01-14T19:49Z 32K followers, 163.7K engagements
"It's been [--] days since I dropped Gas Town. The response has been off the charts. I've been working hard to keep up. Thanks to all the early adopters. I wrote up this survival guide. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/gas-town-emergency-user-manual-cf0e4556d74b https://steve-yegge.medium.com/gas-town-emergency-user-manual-cf0e4556d74b"
X Link 2026-01-13T11:43Z 32K followers, 279K engagements
"Apologies to everyone using Gas Town who is being bitten by the murderous rampaging Deacon who is spree-killing all the other workers while on his patrol. I am as frustrated as you are. Fixes incoming in v0.4.0 but for now please run your town with no Deacon. https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown"
X Link 2026-01-08T03:41Z 32K followers, 60.9K engagements
"Day [--] of Gas Town. Community is taking off like fire and people haven't even come home from the holidays yet. is my latest post on Gas Town and how it's going to shape agentic coding in [----]. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-future-of-coding-agents-e9451a84207c https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-future-of-coding-agents-e9451a84207c"
X Link 2026-01-05T02:28Z 32K followers, 68K engagements
"Happy New Year I've just launched my coding agent orchestrator Gas Town for anyone crazy enough to try it. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04 https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04"
X Link 2026-01-01T21:08Z 32K followers, 508.4K engagements
"Agent UX tip of the day: Pave your Desire Paths. Watch the agents using your command-line tools. When they guess wrong about a flag or a subcommand or even a whole feature you should treat their hallucination as a "desire path" and pave it for them. Next time their hallucination won't be an error. Each time you do this cycle and smooth your Agent UX out a little more the agents get better at using your tool. It starts to work the way they work. I've been doing this for Beads for 2+ months and the agents almost never make mistakes with it now even though it hasn't even started making it into"
X Link 2025-12-28T05:23Z 32K followers, 28K engagements
"-- pretty good article on Beads and why you might want to try it with your agent. Beads works with all of them. https://open.substack.com/pub/lakshminp/p/why-your-ai-wakes-up-every-morning https://open.substack.com/pub/lakshminp/p/why-your-ai-wakes-up-every-morning"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:58Z 32K followers, 35K engagements
"I'm in Sydney this week with @RealGeneKim getting ready to conduct a week of Vibe Coding workshops compliments of Commonwealth Bank of Australia our generous sponsors for this trip. I realized this morning chatting with Gene that we've identified a bunch of new and very useful tips about agentic coding particularly with swarming which weren't in our Vibe Coding book. I took half a dozen of them and wrote them up in a new post. Here's the list; read the post if you'd like more details. [--]. Software is now throwaway expect [--] year shelf life [--]. Agent UX matters at least as much as Human UX 3."
X Link 2025-12-07T06:12Z 32K followers, 44.6K engagements
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