January 3, 2026 on Brett Smith

What is Gas Town

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:43:00 -0700

Gas Town is an interesting endeavor by Steve Yegge. Steve has long been warning that the IDE as we know it will be obsolete and replaced by AI Coding Agent Orchestrators. Gas Town is the result of several iterations into a workable orchestrator.

It is an extremely complicated workflow with a comprehensive article to help explain. Here are some highlights:

The focus is throughput: creation and correction at the speed of thought.

Checking Out exe.dev

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 06:34:00 -0700

Finally took a look at David Crawshaw’s new project exe.dev , a slick new service for spinning up virtual machines in seconds. It’s a subscription service that gives you access to VM’s with persistant disks for a really great price. Enough is enough and I am slowly iterating through creating my own end to end agent orchestration system where I can manage projects as a HOTL (Human on the loop; shoutout Geoffrey Huntley ).