Comment by brushfoot
1 month ago
> Beads formalizes building a DAG for a given workload
> gas town is [...] an orchestrator that is native to dealing with beads
Thanks - this is very helpful in deciding when and where to use them. Steve's descriptions sounded to me like more RAM and Copilot Agents:
> [Beads:] A memory upgrade for your coding agent
> [Gas Town:] a new take on the IDE for 2026. Gas Town helps you with the tedium of running lots of Claude Code instances
Yes he is on an extended manic episode right now - we can only sit back and enjoy the fruits of his extreme labor. I expect the dust will settle at some point, and I think he’s right that he’s on to some quality architecture.