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Inside Steve Yegge's Software Factory: Lessons from Running 50 Agents

What happens when you actually run a software factory? Steve Yegge, creator of Gas Town and Beads, runs around 50 AI agents on his long-running online game, Wyvern. In this episode he talks with Benedikt Stemmildt about what that looks like day to day: the breakthroughs, the breakdowns, and what enterprises should learn from it before they try it themselves.

Last week Steve burned down 40% of his own software factory. His agents had added more than a hundred safety gates until nothing could move, and it took a newer model, acting like an outside consultant, to cut the system back to 14. Then…

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