The AI Vampire
by steve-yegge
AI's 10x productivity boost creates a value capture war between employers and employees — and without deliberate pushback, the vampire drains everyone. The new workday is 3-4 hours.
Software engineer and blogger known for influential essays on programming languages, productivity, and software culture. Former Amazon, Google, and Sourcegraph engineer.
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2026: The Year The IDE Died
by steve-yegge, gene-kim
IDEs and single-agent tools like Claude Code are transitional—the future belongs to swarms of specialized agents, CNC-style automation, and leaders who code their own solutions.
Beads
by steve-yegge
A distributed, git-backed graph issue tracker designed for AI coding agents, replacing markdown task lists with structured, dependency-aware workflows.
Welcome to Gas Town
by steve-yegge
Managing 20-30 parallel AI coding agents requires factory-scale orchestration—hierarchical roles, persistent state in Git, and structured workflow primitives that survive session crashes.