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Everything Steve yegge has done has been trash. That's why nobody is talking about beads or gas town. It was clear even in the beginning that it was a borderline AI-psychosis-fueled trash fire.

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At the same time a lot of the stuff in this Cursor post sounds like things that Gastown was doing, albeit more sober and thought through

Agreed ... I'm not talking about the implementation but rather the idea that this research is novel.

I think if you're suggesting that Steve Yegge somehow invented having agents collaborate, you're way off base. People started talking about agents collaborating very, very early on, and people have been doing experiments like this for ages. There have been libraries to build e.g. graph-based (possibly multi-agent) workflows from the early days, before even structured output was a standard thing in the APIs.

The only thing Yegge did was come up with really stupid, convoluted and anthropomorphized language to describe the process and then write unhinged articles about it

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