#gastown — Public Fediverse posts

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04

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#gastown #llm #productmanagement #programming #claudecode

David @[email protected] · 2026-02-08 · 15:46 UTC

I am curious what folks think of #GasTown. Steve seems to be saying that LLM-generated code is better than nothing, & the real problem is that there's not enough of it to solve bigger problems, so we should throw far more #LLM at it, and have the human operator focus on the #ProductManagement (PM) rather than #programming.

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04

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#gastown #llm #productmanagement #programming #claudecode

David @[email protected] · 2026-02-08 · 15:46 UTC

I am curious what folks think of #GasTown. Steve seems to be saying that LLM-generated code is better than nothing, & the real problem is that there's not enough of it to solve bigger problems, so we should throw far more #LLM at it, and have the human operator focus on the #ProductManagement (PM) rather than #programming.

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04

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#claudecode #programming #productmanagement #llm #gastown

David @[email protected] · 2026-02-08 · 15:46 UTC

I am curious what folks think of #GasTown. Steve seems to be saying that LLM-generated code is better than nothing, & the real problem is that there's not enough of it to solve bigger problems, so we should throw far more #LLM at it, and have the human operator focus on the #ProductManagement (PM) rather than #programming.

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#gastown #llm #productmanagement #programming #claudecode

oatmeal @[email protected] · 2026-01-30 · 19:37 UTC

Welcome to the #AI grift economy, where tools are created not to be maintained or useful, but to extract value before abandonment. Instead of trying to sell crappy software, scammers create a coin, hype it alongside the project to drive up the coin’s price, then dump their tokens for real money.

#Cursor burned millions of dollars using AI to allegedly build a barely working browser that nobody will use, then used it as marketing hype to pump up their company’s valuation. #Gastown started as a fever-dream project that tech blogs hyped as potentially “revolutionary,” until the creator announced he’d taken money from #crypto promoters. That’s when the pattern became clear. #Clawdbot is allegedly following the exact same playbook.

In “The AI Con,” Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna expose this same dynamic operating at massive scale: venture capitalists “whipped into a #FOMO frenzy” poured billions into AI startups “frequently without any clear path to robust monetization,” while “dress something up as AI and investments flow.” Software-crypto pump-and-dump is just the street-level version of that systemic con.

#ai #cursor #gastown #crypto #clawdbot #fomo

oatmeal @[email protected] · 2026-01-30 · 19:37 UTC

Welcome to the #AI grift economy, where tools are created not to be maintained or useful, but to extract value before abandonment. Instead of trying to sell crappy software, scammers create a coin, hype it alongside the project to drive up the coin’s price, then dump their tokens for real money.

#Cursor burned millions of dollars using AI to allegedly build a barely working browser that nobody will use, then used it as marketing hype to pump up their company’s valuation. #Gastown started as a fever-dream project that tech blogs hyped as potentially “revolutionary,” until the creator announced he’d taken money from #crypto promoters. That’s when the pattern became clear. #Clawdbot is allegedly following the exact same playbook.

In “The AI Con,” Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna expose this same dynamic operating at massive scale: venture capitalists “whipped into a #FOMO frenzy” poured billions into AI startups “frequently without any clear path to robust monetization,” while “dress something up as AI and investments flow.” Software-crypto pump-and-dump is just the street-level version of that systemic con.

#ai #cursor #gastown #crypto #clawdbot #fomo

oatmeal @[email protected] · 2026-01-30 · 19:37 UTC

Welcome to the #AI grift economy, where tools are created not to be maintained or useful, but to extract value before abandonment. Instead of trying to sell crappy software, scammers create a coin, hype it alongside the project to drive up the coin’s price, then dump their tokens for real money.

#Cursor burned millions of dollars using AI to allegedly build a barely working browser that nobody will use, then used it as marketing hype to pump up their company’s valuation. #Gastown started as a fever-dream project that tech blogs hyped as potentially “revolutionary,” until the creator announced he’d taken money from #crypto promoters. That’s when the pattern became clear. #Clawdbot is allegedly following the exact same playbook.

In “The AI Con,” Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna expose this same dynamic operating at massive scale: venture capitalists “whipped into a #FOMO frenzy” poured billions into AI startups “frequently without any clear path to robust monetization,” while “dress something up as AI and investments flow.” Software-crypto pump-and-dump is just the street-level version of that systemic con.

#aihype #theaicon #fomo #clawdbot #crypto #gastown

oatmeal @[email protected] · 2026-01-30 · 19:37 UTC

Welcome to the #AI grift economy, where tools are created not to be maintained or useful, but to extract value before abandonment. Instead of trying to sell crappy software, scammers create a coin, hype it alongside the project to drive up the coin’s price, then dump their tokens for real money.

#Cursor burned millions of dollars using AI to allegedly build a barely working browser that nobody will use, then used it as marketing hype to pump up their company’s valuation. #Gastown started as a fever-dream project that tech blogs hyped as potentially “revolutionary,” until the creator announced he’d taken money from #crypto promoters. That’s when the pattern became clear. #Clawdbot is allegedly following the exact same playbook.

In “The AI Con,” Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna expose this same dynamic operating at massive scale: venture capitalists “whipped into a #FOMO frenzy” poured billions into AI startups “frequently without any clear path to robust monetization,” while “dress something up as AI and investments flow.” Software-crypto pump-and-dump is just the street-level version of that systemic con.