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Gas Town: from Clown Show to v1.0

3 Apr 2026

TL;DR: Gas Town and Beads have both released version 1.0.0 today. Enjoy! Gas Town and Beads hit v1.0.0It has been a wild 3-month ride since I launched

Gas Town: from Clown Show to v1.0

3 Apr 2026

Vibe Maintainer

31 Mar 2026

Some attendees at an AI Tinkerers meetup in early Feb were asking me what it’s like to be the maintainer of a big OSS project where the community PRs are all AI slop. They thought it would make for

Vibe Maintainer

31 Mar 2026

Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns

4 Mar 2026

Howdy partner, and welcome to the Wasteland! Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas TownsWhat the heck is the Wasteland? The Wasteland has been the inevitable next step for Gas Town since the day

Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns

4 Mar 2026

The AI Vampire

11 Feb 2026

This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on. I first started noticing a concerning new phenomenon a month ago, just after the new year, where

The AI Vampire

11 Feb 2026

The Anthropic Hive Mind

6 Feb 2026

The Anthropic Hive Mind

6 Feb 2026

As you’ve probably noticed, something is happening over at Anthropic. They are a spaceship that is beginning to take off. This whole post is just spidey-sense stuff. Don’t read too much into it.

Software Survival 3.0

29 Jan 2026

I spent a lot of time writing software with AI last year, and I had some pretty good successes, notably Beads (https://github.com/steveyegge/beads) and Gas Town

Software Survival 3.0

29 Jan 2026

Stevey’s Birthday Blog

19 Jan 2026

My birthday’s coming up, Jan 20th. Fifty-seven. As my Uncle Harold used to say in the 1980s, “Hey it’s my birthday. Keep it under fifty bucks.” I’m not sure what I thought I’d be doing

Stevey’s Birthday Blog

19 Jan 2026

BAGS and the Creator Economy

15 Jan 2026

“You might want to claim that $49k.”I’ve told this bizarre story to a few people now, including my wife Linh, who was certain it was a scam, and everyone’s eyes cross trying to understand

BAGS and the Creator Economy

15 Jan 2026

Gas Town Emergency User Manual

13 Jan 2026

It’s been a busy 12 days since I launched Gas Town. ️I’ve merged over 100 PRs from nearly 50 contributors, adding 44k lines of code that no human has looked at. This has grown Gas Town’s

Gas Town Emergency User Manual

13 Jan 2026

The Future of Coding Agents

5 Jan 2026

It has been three days since I launched Gas Town! 🔥⛽💥🛢️🔥 Woohoo! The launch post (https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04) had a lot of ground to cover.

The Future of Coding Agents

5 Jan 2026

Welcome to Gas Town

1 Jan 2026

Welcome to Gas Town

1 Jan 2026

Happy New Year, and Welcome to Gas Town! Figure 1: Welcome to Gas TownWhat the Heck is Gas Town?Gas Town (https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown) is a new take on the IDE for 2026. Gas Town helps

Six New Tips for Better Coding With Agents

7 Dec 2025

Six New Tips for Better Coding With Agents

7 Dec 2025

I’m hanging out in Sydney with my esteemed co-author and co-conspirator Gene Kim today; we flew in to conduct Vibe Coding workshops and talks this week to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, some