Read this yesterday: Welcome to Gas Town

I find Steve Yegge entertaining. So when I saw he had some new project for orchestrating swarms of AI coding agents I was intrigued. But I wasn’t looking for an orchestrator. I don’t (yet) have that problem. I can’t tell you how wrong I was to delay.

This post is unhinged. As a piece of internet writing about software, it should be recorded in history books. It’s the substack equivalent to this meme:

I mean, just savor this infographic from the post:

I struggle to choose my favorite quote to give you an idea of what I’m talking about:

Gas Town is an industrialized coding factory manned by superintelligent chimpanzees, and when they feel like it, they can wreck your shit in an instant. They will wreck the other chimps, the workstations, the customers. They’ll rip your face off if you aren’t already an experienced chimp-wrangler. So no. If you have any doubt whatsoever, then you can’t use it.

A friend of mine, after reading basically none of it, asked me if I tried it because Steve doesn’t seem to be doing a very good job of selling it. No, Man, you don’t get it. This is Art.

In Gas Town, operating on the MEOW stack, all work is expressed as molecules. There is a bit of an algebra to it, one that I discovered over the past two weeks. Molecules are workflows. They can have complex shapes, and loops, and gates, and are in fact Turing-complete. And each step of the workflow is executed by a superintelligent AI.

What if… just what if… this means something.

I shared Gas Town with Anthropic in November, at least the broad sketch. I think I scared them. I’ve never seen a company become so conservative, so fast.

This is a man who has seen the face of God and it drove him insane. I absolutely love it.