This is almost a year behind Steve Yegge's first post on beads. Gas Town and Gas City provide orchestration for the swarm. So far I haven't seen a perfect implementation but this idea isn't new.

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sudb 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think Gas Town was actually all that much ahead of the curve - see Cursor's swarm post from January this year, mentioned at the very top of this blog post.

I also don't know that beads is a very strong example that Yegge knows what he's doing - it's famously been described as (pseudo)malware.

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IceDane 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Everything Steve yegge has done has been trash. That's why nobody is talking about beads or gas town. It was clear even in the beginning that it was a borderline AI-psychosis-fueled trash fire.

	▲	smoyer 23 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Agreed ... I'm not talking about the implementation but rather the idea that this research is novel.
	▲	anentropic 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		At the same time a lot of the stuff in this Cursor post sounds like things that Gastown was doing, albeit more sober and thought through

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nullsanity 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Does every peice of prose published here have to be novel? is it not enough for you to read a new. perspective?