Summary

Yegge announces that his Gas Town orchestrator represents the future of coding: factory-style agent colonies rather than individual super-agents. He argues that coding agents will evolve from 'pair programmers' into 'colony workers' optimized for orchestration, and that this shift will devastate large companies while enabling tiny teams to achieve unprecedented productivity. The post traces Gas Town's evolution through four prior orchestrator attempts and explains why Go emerged as his preferred language for AI-coded projects. He predicts 2026 will see massive industry churn as solo developers and tiny teams dramatically outperform large organizations that can't adapt to the coordination challenges of high-velocity AI coding.

Key Insight

The future of software development isn't smarter individual coding agents but orchestrated colonies of them, which will fundamentally reshape the industry by making tiny teams vastly more productive than large organizations.

Spicy Quotes (click to share)

• 8

  When work needs to be done, nature prefers colonies. Nature builds ant colonies, while Claude Code is 'the world's biggest fuckin' ant.'

• 9

  Colonies are going to win. Factories are going to win. Automation is going to win. Of course they're gonna fucking win. Anyone who thinks otherwise is, well, not a big fan of history, I guess.

• 8

  The entire world is going to explode into tiny companies, which will then aggregate and re-form into larger ones… but not until we go through at least a year of churn, where small shops dramatically outperform large ones, to a degree we've never seen in all history.

• 6

  2 hours ago!? That's ancient! It might as well have been 2 weeks ago.

• 7

  At this rate I'll be more impressed if a 100-person startup can make a billion dollars in 2027. Genuinely impressed. How will they even communicate, with that many people doing AI work at once?

• 6

  When the diffs go by in TypeScript, half the time you're like, what awful thing is my computer up to now? But with Go, it's just boring.

• 5

  Programming has always been a best-effort, we'll-fix-shit-later endeavor. We always ship with bugs.

Tone

evangelical, irreverent, contrarian