Steve Yegge's Bash Agent Factory Hit macOS Limits, Forcing a Python Rewrite
Steve_Yegge · x · 2026-11-13
Steve Yegge paid $25k on eBay for a 512GB Mac Studio (M3 Ultra, misstated as M4) sold by an Ivy League student who'd used it for Claude. It's a beast — until his agents hit a wall: once 1.2B processes are created, macOS kicks him out of all auth systems. The team calls it The Bad Thing, caused by his agent factory Wheelhouse being written in shell script and spawning 1,900 processes/sec.
After Fable 5.2 looked at it and said "time for a rewrite," he's now building Alamos, a new Python factory that keeps Wheelhouse's mechanical bottom (merge queue etc.) and replaces the million lines of bash doing agent coordination.
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