I have seen both of these already. I've done the former personally, and I've seen links to at least kernels for the latter.
(I didn't do it via gastown, just regular old "use Claude".)
1) Who is organizing/arbitrating?
2) Who is paying for the tokens? Is there some sort of funding or prize?
This is trivial in a few hours with Claude Code
I keep adding things here and there, a couple hours everyday. Then after about a week I decided to switch the toolchain from TypeScript to Rust, how much work? A 5 minute planning session and a ~20 minutes implementation phase.
Trivial stuff indeed.
Does anyone have like, projects built using it? I couldn't find "look at the output" types of videos or articles or repos, only "look at the input" types of posts about it.
Also there's the issue of how to identify systems-interface problems and posting those tasks for completion as well. No guarantee that a totally federated system will not solve interfacial issues faster than they generate them without feedback and oversight.
I'm good, thanks.
Reminds me of those 419 emails where the grammar is bad, the story makes no sense, but hey there really are people who expect $10 million to fall out of the sky because they already had $10 million fall out of the sky on them.
It's slop on top of slop on top of slop. It's not even quality slop. Apart from bloviated self-aggrandising blog posts, the ideas are trivial, and the execution is beyond horrendous.
Look beyond the ChatGPT-generated terminology to see the supervisors, loops and worker processes of Gas Town. Now it's a freelance board with AI agents as freelancers. But sure, polecats, mayors, stamps and character sheets. Whatever floats your upcoming crypto rug pull [1].
This is what he writes: "build stuff really, really fast. So fast that your biggest problem will be ideas." We've yet to see ideas built using the slopcoded monstrosities.
[1] https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/22/steve-yegges-gas-town-vib...
ns;nt (No Skill; No Taste)
All I can take from this is that you must spend more tokens.
Is it for people with too much money and time on their hands to flex on Github?
I could at least understand the pitch if there was a crypto scam attached, or if folks were getting paid somehow (which might be an interesting social/AI experiment). But that doesn't seem to be the case.
separate company, not aware of any association, dolt has been around for a while
Yegge's Medium uses a serif font so you can tell, but in many faces you can't.
(We still get this comment constantly and it's very unfortunate)
This reads like a speech from Pete Hegseth.
"Let's do war! Hard! Let's build stuff! Stat!"
Build what? Fight for what?
"The hell if we know! Just get busy dropping bombs, or "stamps" or whatever! Faster!"
In the end, all that's left is, indeed, a wasteland.
NBP is just plain amazing at background removal in my experience.
Is this Ethereum related?
Help?
And if they don't, so what? Who cares? Why be angry at Steve for playing around with a fun hobby project that goes nowhere?
throwup238•1h ago
This is all just performance art at this point, right?
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I've not seen anyone take Gas Town seriously or even semi-seriously in the way people take Openclaw semi-seriously.
Gas Town certainly seems like a concept for performance art. The original blog post read like it, and so does this.
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