My thoughts on Gas Town after 10,000 hours of Claude Code
Summary
The article documents Simon Hartcher's long-running experiment with Claude Code and Steve Yegge's Gas Town, sharing insights on how AI agents shape productivity and collaboration. It argues that while agent-based workflows can boost output, they also erode personal agency, create visibility challenges, and introduce maintenance and token-cost concerns, with Beads as a central contract-like tracker. The piece remains cautiously optimistic about the future of agentic tooling, calling for better governance, transparency, and human involvement.