Gas Town
2026-01-15 22:03:03.287132+01 by
Dan Lyke
3 comments
Steve Yegge:
Welcome to Gas Town
Gas Town is a new take on
the IDE for 2026. Gas Town helps you with the tedium of running lots of Claude Code
instances. Stuff gets lost, it’s hard to track who’s doing what, etc. Gas Town helps with
all that yak shaving, and lets you focus on what your Claude Codes are working on.
Every time I thought the gag was played out he managed to take it a little further, and
then I was browsing the github repo. Via Metafilter, who
also can't figure out if it's a joke or real...
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#Comment Re: made: 2026-01-15 23:06:28.338431+01 by:
spc476
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Steve Yegge, I think, believes it real. Not only has he drunk the Kool-Aid, but he downed an entire barrel of it (and I'm not alone in that). Here he is, saying to stop coding and embrace the vibe!
#Comment Re: made: 2026-01-20 00:36:48.685631+01 by:
Dan Lyke
Oh geez, there's also some sort of cryptocurrency grift going on here.
#Comment Re: made: 2026-01-22 02:48:22.713244+01 by:
spc476
I think Steve Yegge is an insane grifter. WTF?
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