- I have Gas Town derangement syndrome and spent the last few weeks writing thousands of words on agent orchestration patterns; how they shift our bottlenecks and force us to ask whether and when we should stop looking at code maggieappleton.com/gastown
- And I am unreasonably proud of making all the diagrams in this responsive on mobile. With no help from Claude. Lovingly hand-crafted only because agents are shit at visual explanations and graphic design. I am still useful for a while yet.Jan 23, 2026 14:26
- If you attempted to read the Gas Town article when it came out but struggled to put the sprawling cast of post-apocalyptic Hollywood movie characters together in your head into a working future vision of software development, I wrote this for you. There are good things under the madness.
