Gas Town: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
I used Gas Town for a week. I ended up with three mayors, 141 orphaned Claude Code processes and a new appreciation for why agent orchestration is hard. Gas Town is Steve Yegge’s framework for orchestrating a fleet of coding agents. It shines when most of your work is pure code: lots of independent tasks, clear specs, and you mostly know what you want and don’t care how you get there. It falls apart when the work is heavily human-in-the-loop or ambiguous. Keeping Gas Town fed with beads that align with your project goals is the hard part. ...