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A colossal golden bear, hat in paw, waits politely at a knee-high white picket fence while a panda in a waistcoat gardens inside; a cracked glass bell jar lies discarded nearby.

Originally published August 24, 2026 on yegge.ai · Steve Yegge

Fences, not Sandboxes

Steve Yegge reports from ten weeks inside a 50-agent AI software factory — and finds his agents built not an engineering system but a legal one.

A retrofuturist brass release gate opening as a swarm of mechanical bees pours into a gas-lit factory.

August 20, 2026 · Chris Sells

Beads 1.2.1 Incident Report: Release the Bees!

An autonomous Beads maintainer released v1.2.1 without explicit, release-specific human sign-off, exposing an underspecified process and the danger of giving agents production access.

Originally published July 22, 2026 on Very Good Ventures · Jorge Coca

The Future of Software Development: Embracing AI and Quality

Jorge Coca sits down with Chris Sells on Very Good Engineering: vibe coding versus production software, why code quality has to be written down before an agent can honor it, and how a software factory encodes the standards.

A retrofuturist factory observation deck: a figure at a control desk of brass gauges and dials, a glowing catalog wall of canisters behind him, and a wide window overlooking a humming gas-lit software factory floor.

July 28, 2026 · Wesley Davidson

Gas City 1.4: The View From The Factory Floor

Gas City 1.4 is the quality-of-life update: a public pack registry, a run-centered dashboard, Maintainer City, and a much more resilient factory underneath.

Retrofuturist illustration of an ornate brass and copper gate lit by glowing gas lanterns, with steam-wreathed industrial pipes converging toward it from both sides.

July 20, 2026 · Chris Sells

Beads 1.1: Dolt Migrations That Work With Your Clones

Beads 1.1 makes multi-clone databases safe by default: a smart remote-migrate gate, self-healing migrations, and safer cross-clone sync.

A retrofuturist gas-lit refinery drawn as a vast circular assembly line: concentric brass pipe loops carry glowing canisters out to many worker stations and back to a single inspection gate at the center.

July 3, 2026 · Chris Sells

Gas City 1.3: Now We're Looping With Gas!

Formulas 2.0 lands with convoys and drain, a new default gascity pack, the Mayor as a skill, the end of built-in-pack magic, and JSON output across the gc CLI.

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April 28, 2026 · Chris Sells

Announcing Gas City 1.0!

Gas City 1.0 introduces the open-source agent orchestration engine behind software factories for agentic engineers.

April 24, 2026 · Steve Yegge

Welcome to Gas City

Gas City recasts Gas Town as a composable SDK for building observable, multi-agent dark factories, with v1.0.0 ready for teams building their own orchestrators.

Retrofuturist Gas City diagram showing layers of agentic engineering orchestration.

April 21, 2026 · Chris Sells

Orchestration Is All You Need

A practical look at agentic engineering, harness engineering, and why orchestration is the missing layer for AI software factories.

April 3, 2026 · Steve Yegge

Gas Town: from Clown Show to v1.0

Gas Town and Beads have both released version 1.0.0, marking the end of Gas Town's chaotic early phase and the start of stable, production-ready use.

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