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The AI Vampire with Gas Town's Steve Yegge

The AI Vampire with Gas Town's Steve Yegge

Update: 2026-02-05
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AI is making developers dramatically more productive...so why is everyone so exhausted? In this episode, Scott talks with Steve Yegge, legendary blogger and creator of Gas Town, a multi-agent orchestrator he describes as "Kubernetes for coding agents." Steve shares his theory of the "AI Vampire," that working alongside AI drains human energy Colin Robinson-style (What We Do In The Shadows), even as output skyrockets. They dig into what happens when you're managing ten or twenty Claude Code instances at once, who actually captures the value of a 10x productivity boost, and why the most important thing developers can do right now might be to close the laptop and go for a walk.

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The AI Vampire with Gas Town's Steve Yegge

The AI Vampire with Gas Town's Steve Yegge

Scott Hanselman