Steve Yegge's agent factory: Fable 5.1 rewrote 30% of codebase to fix wrecked Fable 5
Steve_Yegge · x · 2026-09-08
Steve Yegge shared his "Wheelhouse factory" multi-agent development workflow, documented as comics backed by redacted transcripts of real agent sessions.
- Fable 5 train-wrecked the whole project after a few days; Fable 5.1 came in to fix it, torching about 30% of the codebase, but the result is now fast.
- The linked blog records a midnight agent session explaining "The Fold", a conflict-prediction layer for his merge queue: a tail-recursive fold building a speculative "future master" from cherry-picked queued tickets, with conflicted tickets fold-skipped, laid out in 19 pages across design rungs 1a/1b/2/3.
- Each comic strip includes the actual conversation receipts behind it.
- Yegge says he'll start recording his full workflow soon.
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