Stories by Steve Yegge on Medium
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Stories by Steve Yegge on Medium
The Flat Curve Society
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19 Jun 2026
 The Flat Curve Society Hi-ho, we’ve reached the moment, in this movie we’re all watching together on twitter, where
The Last Technical Interview
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29 May 2026
Today we will pour one out for the vaunted technical interview process, which is on its last leg. And we’ll talk a little about what’s replacing it. This post has been almost 35 years in the
Welcome to Gas City
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24 Apr 2026
What is Gas City, you ask? It is Gas Town, but torn apart and rewritten from the ground up as an SDK for building your own dark factories. It enables you to deploy teams of collaborating agents in
Gas Town: from Clown Show to v1.0
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3 Apr 2026
TL;DR: Gas Town and Beads have both released version 1.0.0 today. Enjoy!  Gas Town and Beads hit v1.0.0 It has been a
Vibe Maintainer
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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
Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns
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4 Mar 2026
Howdy partner, and welcome to the Wasteland!  Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns **What the heck is the
The AI Vampire
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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 Anthropic Hive Mind
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6 Feb 2026
 As you’ve probably noticed, something is happening over at Anthropic. They are a spaceship that is beginning to take
Software Survival 3.0
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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
Stevey’s Birthday Blog
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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
BAGS and the Creator Economy
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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
Gas Town Emergency User Manual
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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
The Future of Coding Agents
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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.
Welcome to Gas Town
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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
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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
