ABOUT THIS EPISODE
In this episode we invite back our friend Bob Farzin to discuss our personal experiences with using teams of agents to write software, and we try to parse out the experiences we're seeing on the interwebs, including Steve Yegge's GasTown and Wes McKinney's discussion of agentic development in the context of Brooks's _Mythical Man Month_.
- "Introducing Beads: A coding agent memory system"
- Welcome to Gas Town — Steve Yegge's original essay
- The Future of Coding Agents — Yegge's follow-up
- Gas Town on GitHub — The actual tool
- How to Think About Gas Town — Steve Klabnik's analysis
- A Day in Gas Town — DoltHub's practical walkthrough
- Gas Town, Beads, and the Rise of Agentic Development — Software Engineering Daily interview with Yegge
- Top Coding Agents 2025 — Benched.ai comparison guide
- [April 8, Wes McKinney] AI Agents, The Mythical Agent Month, My Wild AI Coding Setup
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