Fairly amusing, sometimes for good reason, sometimes less nobly so.
> Gas Town is a collection of AI agents with fanciful names ("Deacons," "Dogs," "Mayor") organized to monitor one another's work. Think of it as a kind of surveillance-heavy labor camp for bots
> Moltbook made Gas Town's ant farm-like spectacle visible to non-coders.
> Novelties like Gas Town and OpenClaw that aim to free programmers from drudgery always risk turning into just another form of "yak-shaving" (rabbit-hole quests that can delay delivering actual
> That means we're in for some wild times, with more crazes flaring up and flaming out, new kinds of human-machine collaborations evolving, and unforeseen cybersecurity disasters multiplying
> Productivity gains will be elusive… The information sphere will get swamped… Security disasters will multiply… Labor markets could get weird
Fairly amusing, sometimes for good reason, sometimes less nobly so.
> Gas Town is a collection of AI agents with fanciful names ("Deacons," "Dogs," "Mayor") organized to monitor one another's work. Think of it as a kind of surveillance-heavy labor camp for bots
> Moltbook made Gas Town's ant farm-like spectacle visible to non-coders.
> Novelties like Gas Town and OpenClaw that aim to free programmers from drudgery always risk turning into just another form of "yak-shaving" (rabbit-hole quests that can delay delivering actual
> That means we're in for some wild times, with more crazes flaring up and flaming out, new kinds of human-machine collaborations evolving, and unforeseen cybersecurity disasters multiplying
> Productivity gains will be elusive… The information sphere will get swamped… Security disasters will multiply… Labor markets could get weird