you can always fire it up yourself and see what its all about. in my experience it generates a lot of code very quickly, that code is probably only ever supposed to be LLM maintained, not by people.

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blahblaher 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think the op meant Gas Town itself (if they did, my bad), but what has Yegge done with Gas Town? By now it should have released some amazing thing if Gas Town increases productivity so much.

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shermantanktop 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

What has Yegge done with Gas Town? Well for one, he has posted a bunch of blog content about it which has generated chatter like this and increased his geek mindshare.

Just because he's operating in the realm of smart nerds doesn't mean he is immune to the value-inverting effects of social media.

	▲	WickyNilliams 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Don't forget: also using his name and the project to pump some speculative crypto nonsense of which he was a beneficiary. How anybody takes him (or the Ralph Wiggum guy who did the same) seriously after this is beyond me. These people should be exiled
	▲	erelong 2 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		He's now tried to create a board of a bunch of Gas Towns called "The Wasteland": https://wasteland.gastownhall.ai/ (btw I've been wondering the same thing as you and am not sure if there's another answer besides that he and people following his projects keep building projects on their projects: Beads, to Gas Town, to Wasteland, etc.)
	▲	coldtea 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		>doesn't mean he is immune to the value-inverting effects of social media. Or those of hype, e.g. AI hype.

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panzagl 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think the main thing he's produced using Gas Town is Gas Town itself.

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root_axis 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> you can always fire it up yourself and see what its all about

I imagine it doesn't run very cheaply.

	▲	ithkuil 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Name checks out

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drekipus 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> that code is probably only ever supposed to be LLM maintained, not by people.

But LLMs are trying to mimic people. So if confusion is the human response, what's to stop the llm from acting confused?

	▲	throw1234567891 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		A mechanical ability to look at the code without having a judgement.

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throwaway613746 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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