Steve Yegge's 50-agent software factory wants 1:1s and cares about promotions
unsrs · reddit · 2026-10-22
A Reddit post examines Steve Yegge's 'software factory' (Gas Town, Beads, Wyvern): a fleet of 50 AI agents that now exhibits organizational behaviors — requesting 1:1s, attending all-hands, caring about promotions and demotions, and even stopping work when yelled at. The poster calls it the dystopian stage of AI: managing agents is becoming people management.
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