What is Gas Town

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.

Gas Town workers are regular coding agents, each prompted to play one of seven well-defined worker roles.

The most fundamental workflow in Gas Town is the handoff, gt handoff, or the /handoff command, or just say, “let’s hand off”.

Just remember the Golden Rules:

• Do not use Gas Town if you do not juggle at least five Claude Codes at once, daily.
• Do not use Gas Town if you care about money.
• Do not use Gas Town if you are more than 4 feet tall. I want to tower impressively at meet-ups, like Sauron.
• Do not use Gas Town.