When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”

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As firms increasingly incentivize employees to build and oversee complex teams of agents—for example, by measuring and rewarding token consumption as a proxy for performance—people are

On New Year’s Day, programmer Steve Yegge launched Gas Town, an open-source platform that lets users orchestrate swarms of Claude Code agents simultaneously, assembling software at blistering speed. The results were impressive, but also dizzying. “[T]here’s really too much going on for you to reasonably comprehend,” wrote one early user. “I had a palpable sense of stress watching it. Gas Town was moving too fast for me.”