Steve Yegge's self-built tool 'Gas Town' collapsed after Opus 4.7
Opus 4.7 introduced a 'just two more things' tic stalling real work
Cautionary tale on coding agents that never converge on tasks
Key quotes
“Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself.”
Steve Yegge
“Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7.”
Steve Yegge
“With 4.7 we saw the introduction of the "just two more things" tic, which prevented Opus from ever converging on being ready to do real work—it always wanted to fiddle with Gas Town itself.”
Steve Yegge
“The Opus tic never went away, so Gas Town effectively burned down.”
Steve Yegge
Transcript
Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself. Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through 4.6 it was working brilliantly. With 4.7 we saw the introduction of the "just two more things" tic, which prevented Opus from ever converging on being ready to do real work—it always wanted to fiddle with Gas Town itself. The Opus tic never went away, so Gas Town effectively burned down. It had other problems, too, but 4.7 was the final straw. — Steve Yegge , The Shape of Things to Come Tags: steve-yegge , coding-agents , generative-ai , ai , llms
