alt Hacker NewsI think the underlying approach seems sensible.
The problem with Gas Town is how it was presented. The heavy metaphor and branding felt distracting.
It’s a bit like reading the Dune book, where you have to learn a whole vocabulary of new terms before you can get to the interesting mechanics, which is a tough ask in an already crowded AI space.
I think you have to remove an awful lot of what makes Gastown Gastown to find something sensible – at the minimum you need to restructure and simplify the roles, restructure the memory system, remove tmux, ...
The best bit about it was the agentic coding maturity model he presented. That was actually great.
I don't think it's at all like reading Dune. Dune is creative fiction, Gastown is. Oh ok wait, if you consider Gastown to be creative fiction then I guess I agree. As a software tool though I don't think this analogy works.