Steve Yegge on overnight coding agents: bespoke harnesses will kill reusable frameworks
tylerjdunn · x · 2026-09-15
Steve Yegge's new long-form post explains the 'loops and graphs' approach to keep coding agents working overnight on massive problems, and introduces Wheelhouse, his closed-source personal harness. He argues reusable harness frameworks are doomed—his own Gas Town project collapsed after Opus 4.7's 'just two more things' tic prevented convergence. Since Claude Fable 5 shipped, he's back full-time on Wyvern, his 30-year-old video game.
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