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session_id: "1373471"
title: "Software Factories: Escape from Trash Mountain"
phase: live
last_checked: 2026-11-12T13:24:21-08:00
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# Links: Software Factories: Escape from Trash Mountain

## Speaker

**Steve Yegge** (@Steve_Yegge), independent AI adviser, creator of Beads and Gas Town

- Site: [yegge.ai](https://yegge.ai/)
- X: [@Steve_Yegge](https://x.com/steve_yegge)
- GitHub: [steveyegge](https://github.com/steveyegge)
- LinkedIn: [Steve Yegge](https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveyegge)

## Company

Independent (roster). No company to link.

## Resources

- **Repo** · [gastownhall/beads](https://github.com/gastownhall/beads). Beads, the
  agent issue tracker that survived his failed orchestrators (transcribed "beans").
- **Repo** · [gastownhall/gastown](https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown). Gas
  Town, launched January 1.
- **Blog** · [Not Quiet Enough — The Wheelhouse](https://yegge.ai/comics/not-quiet-enough/)
  (yegge.ai, 2026-11-02). Strip #14 of the comic he started about his factory's
  office drama; its title is the line Lark wrote in her private reflections
  ledger. The page carries only the strip, so the match is by title.
- **Podcast** · [Steve Yegge's Software Factory: Running 50 Agents](https://re-cinq.com/podcast/steve-yegge-software-factory)
  (re:cinq, 2026-09-20). A longer conversation about the same 50-agent factory.
- **Product** · [Wyvern](https://yegge.ai/wyvern). The 30-year-old graphical MUD
  his factory builds.

## Gaps

- His Medium posts on Gas Town answered 403 (bot challenge) and are left out.
- The Wheelhouse factory has no public repository found.
- "Superlogical" and the book he recommends (transcribed "there is no anti-memes
  division") are not linked.
- No official recording or slides found yet. The dossier rechecks every 6 hours
  during the event.