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.

Agreed ... I'm not talking about the implementation but rather the idea that this research is novel.

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