2026-09-03: It turns out 40% of global AI token use was coming from a dozen runaway Gastown and Wheelhouse instances, now burning a combined 50 trillion tokens daily, building a virtual society of hundreds of millions of agents.

When Claude went down, their autofailover algorithm rolled to the other providers, taking down all frontier labs. Reports from China are raising concern what's being termed the "Gastown criticality event" is physically melting GPUs.

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arcastroe 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's my first time hearing about Gastown and Wheelhouse.

Gastown seems to be open source, but Wheelhouse seems to be closed source and used by one person only?

https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/

Is this the right Wheelhouse?

	▲	mattmanser 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's a joke, Steve Yegge was also the creator of GasTown. He's now (famously) said that the only thing he ever actually used GasTown for was to code on GasTown.

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

I think you are joking but it would be poetic if the cause is someone or some company's agents run amok

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

> "Gastown criticality event" is physically melting GPUs.

Nice to know e-stop is functional!

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