I don't doubt that entire companies are working this way in software development, marketing, technical writing, and law, all the while ignoring the hidden, increasing technical and knowledge debt..."Working effectively in Gas Town involves committing to vibe coding. Work becomes fluid, an uncountable substance that you sling around freely, like slopping shiny fish into wooden barrels at the docks. Most work gets done; some work gets lost. Fish fall out of the barrel. Some escape back to sea, or get stepped on. More fish will come. The focus is throughput: creation and correction at the speed of thought.Work in Gas Town can be chaotic and sloppy, which is how it got its name. Some bugs get fixed 2 or 3 times, and someone has to pick the winner. Other fixes get lost. Designs go missing and need to be redone. It doesn’t matter, because you are churning forward relentlessly on huge, huge piles of work, which Gas Town is both generating and consuming. You might not be 100% efficient, but you are flying.In Gas Town, you let Claude Code do its thing. You are a Product Manager, and Gas Town is an Idea Compiler. You just make up features, design them, file the implementation plans, and then sling the work around to your polecats and crew. Opus 4.5 can handle any reasonably sized task, so your job is to make tasks for it. That’s it.That, and you have to help keep Gas Town running. It runs itself pretty well most of the time, but stuff goes wrong often. It can take a lot of elbow grease from you and the workers to keep it running smoothly. It’s very much a hands-on-the-wheel orchestration system.If you can’t work like that, then what in God’s name are you still doing here? Go back to your IDE and shelter in place. Gas Town is not safe for you."steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome#VibeCoding #AI #LLMs #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #GenerativeAI #AIAgents