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Summary.
On New Year’s Day, programmer Steve Yegge launched Gas Town, an open-source platform that lets users orchestrate swarms of Claude Code agents simultaneously, assembling software at blistering speed. The results were impressive, but also dizzying. “[T]here’s really too much going on for you to reasonably comprehend,” wrote one early user. “I had a palpable sense of stress watching it. Gas Town was moving too fast for me.”