I hate to say, "I told you so" about Gas Town, but, I really told you so. I was making fun of it immediately, because it was obviously a token furnace and literally nothing else and could never be anything else. Models don't want anything. You can't set them loose in a vague "do something" loop and expect anything good to ever come of it.

Yegge's a smart guy, and I've enjoyed his writing and talks (historically), but AI has really done a number on him. I mean, I'm kind of all in on this stuff, too, but I'm rarely claiming to know what's happening 18 months ahead (and when I do, I don't brag and declare victory when I get it completely wrong, as Yegge has re: Gas Town).

I remember reading this line from his Gas Town article:

> I predicted someone would lash the Claude Code camels together into chariots, and that is exactly what I’ve done with Gas Town.

He's literally patting himself on the back for predicting someone would do something and then doing it himself, thus proving his own prediction right!