Clojurians Log v2
ai-skeptics 2026-08-04
https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/ > https://yegge.ai/gastown.html 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. cool dude, glad you spent tens of thousands of dollars on tokens for your personal dopamine slot machine - and thanks for prefacing the essay with that so we know to disregard the rest entirely
I have stopped reading Yegge a few years ago, LLMs made his blog posts have worse and worse signal to noise ratio, they were becoming pretty obnoxious.
Wow, this guy writes like someone addicted to cocaine and very proud of that fact
he always wrote like that, but since he AI-pilled himself everything was turned up to 11
Here's a choice bit: "On the side I do occasional six-figure gigs where I fly to companies and teach them my techniques, and that helps with my (considerable) token bills."
> teach them my techniques looks very nice right next to > Gas Town effectively burned down
> Wow, this guy writes like someone addicted to cocaine and very proud of that fact That's because the LLM that wrote that article was probably trained on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
What a load of crap from someone who used to write funny AND informative articles 2 decades ago, but I guess that's the future of LLM-based brainwork.
Only to think I used to like this guy's writing. It was always long and winding but at least it was fun. Now, this slop is insufferable; and I don't think it is llm-generated – it feels like genuine organic Yegge-slop that only he can produce.
I admit I didn't have the patience (and a couple of hours to waste) to read the article to the end, but the first part was not successful in explaining what the hell he is talking about. It's like peeking into the brain of Philip K. Dick, but not during his sane moments.
> Here's a choice bit: "On the side I do occasional six-figure gigs where I fly to companies and teach them my techniques, and that helps with my (considerable) token bills." He is of course full of shit, because he (or his LLM) writes below that the actual bill is $2800, since he's rotating multiple max acounts.
I wonder when would Anthropic/OpenAI junkies users realize that they're pouring money to act as NPCs in the largest Railroad Software Tycoon game up to date.
I just don't understand who pays him 6 figures to come consult on AI, how do I get those gigs? Want me to show your team of engineers 100 agents swarming to make a 1980s retro game, sure I can do that 😛
Reminds me of https://isaiprofitable.com
Anything by Ed Zitron is highly entertaining, even if he often gets repetitive (how couldn't you? The bubble is still the same). It is a bit encouraging that he now gets invited to mainstream media foundries like CNBC and Bloomberg, probably in a CYA act for them, but still.