Gas Town

“They're both expensive to operate, because the AI members of the organization spend a lot of time talking with each other.”

“the idea of having orchestrator threads to manage your work and keep tabs on it, having validators to validate the other work etc. were generally the right shape”

“Orchestration finally clicked with me when I tried out Gas Town six months ago”

“it seems to ignore the the more fundamental challenge of getting the human idea into software form”

“I have seen people with that kind of AI assisted productivity-by-volume, building eldritch abominations like Gas Town.”

“It's an open source 21st century master piece of ai psychosis, slop, and most especially redundant processes, orchestration and code”

“If we must have GasTown/City/Metropolis then at least get an agent to examine and block potentially harmful commands”

“Gastown preceded real support for multiagent orchestration in Claude and potentially nudged it along that path.”

“This is actually the most sustainable approach to maintaining open-source software that we've seen so far”

“it does seem to be a possible correct vision of the future of coordinating agents to code with”

“No real software has been produced by the concept to date, except more garbage software that takes hundreds of thousands of lines where a few thousand would do.”

“I do find the idea interesting, but heeded it's advice when it said it's hideously expensive and risky to use”

“this gave me the very clear feeling that most of the complexity of gas town is absolutely not needed and probably detrimental”

“I have otherwise never had an issue when I defined what the gate is, Claude usually honors it.”

“it generates a lot of code very quickly, that code is probably only ever supposed to be LLM maintained, not by people”

“My main complaints with Gastown are that (1) it's expensive, partly because (2) it refuses to use anything but Claude models”

“I'm skeptical that if I forked a vm running a busy Gas Town that it would be very light or fast in how it forks.”

“i think this is the real genius of gastown— not how it works, but that it does work”

“the volume of code and apparent utility (based purely on popularity) is undeniable”

“I think it's cool that folks like Steve with lots of money and time are using it to build stuff they find cool and interesting”

“Not reporting great success yet but also probably work that just wouldn't be done otherwise.”

“I would never seriously consider using for anything productive, but I love that he just put it out there”

“people will still revel into inventing crazy architectures full of arcane terminology, independent of how much it's actually needed”

“I think that's interesting, and I'm glad that someone built a (somewhat) working system to show what happens if you do that”

“it has a different type of worker that merges work and if needed can creatively rewrite completed work”

“Gas Town can pump out a huge amount of "working" code in short timeframes at obscene costs.”

“better enjoyed as more of Fear And Loathing-style ACID-fueled fevered dream than as a productivity tool”

“Bravo to Steve for getting these thoughts on paper and the idea built even in such crude form”

“I think ideas from it will probably partially inspire future, simpler systems.”

“Gas Town is an industrialized coding factory manned by superintelligent robot chimps, and when they feel like it, they can wreck your shit in an instant.”

“Gas Town is a very instructive example of what the future of AI coding will look like”

“Great tool, but the 100% vibecoding without looking at the code, for something that you are actually expecting others to use, is a bad idea.”

“I guess Gas Town's multiple layers of supervisory entities are meant to replace this manual tidying and fixing, but, well, really?”

“gas town, or a successor built on a similar architecture, will not only be useful, but likely be considered 'state of the art'”

“It is worth an install; it works very differently than an agent in a single loop.”

“it implemented exactly what I asked for in a workable fashion with effectively one prompt”

“The waste and lack of control is wild, but at the same time there's at least a nugget of fascinating, useful work in there.”

“Looking at something like the Beads and Gas Town repos, which are apparently fully vibe-coded”

“Gastown, by Steve Yeggs is that, via tmux. It's rather opinionated and still in development, but it's worth a look”

“This tool is dangerous, largely untested, and yet may be of interest if you are already doing similar things in production.”