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Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale

maggieappleton.com

On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code

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2026.01.DisappearingMoment

My beloved American Library Association broke my heart this month. (This was not the first time.) The details are immaterial. I have seen it happen to...

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Weakly Link 26/04

It’s been a busy week, hasn’t it. Fascism is on the rise and AI too. But it’s not all bad news… (touches earpiece) I’m receiving new information. Aaaanyway. This week we’re looking at mad and bad. We’re looking at how magic strings and parameter injection can be bad, how mad AI coding is and how bad people make me mad. Telnet? In 2026? First of all, we’re reminded that running old services can be rather dangerous.

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RalPhD and The Autonomous Paper

After reading Maggie Appleton’s excellently illustrated blog post, I began building a Gas Town-inspired multi-agent system that could autonomously complete P...

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Looms & Agents

I was coding with Claude the other day, and like many engineers, I experienced the magical surge of productivity, and awe, watching it produce options for so...

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davepeck.org

Dave Peck's home on the web. Dave is an independent software developer, investor, and civic technologist.

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The Code You're Not Reading

AI coding tools write fast, plausible, and often quietly wrong code — and they won't tell you which. A look at SlopCodeBench, a god class I didn't read, the Claude Code source leak, and what it actually means to keep a human in the loop.