Welcome to Gas Town
Originally published on Medium
What the Heck is Gas Town? Gas Town is a new take on the IDE for 2026. It helps you manage the tedium of running lots of Claude Code instances—tracking who's doing what, preventing work from getting lost, and letting you focus on what matters.
Gas Town is an orchestration layer that treats AI agent work as structured data. Every action is attributed. Every agent has a track record. Every piece of work has provenance.
Key Concepts
- Convoys — Track batched work across multiple agents
- Polecats — Ephemeral workers managed by Witnesses
- Crew — Persistent workers you control directly
- The Propulsion Principle — If you find work on your hook, YOU RUN IT
The Evolution of the Programmer
The post describes 8 stages of developer evolution with AI, from zero AI usage through single agent CLI work to managing swarms of agents working in parallel.
Gas Town solves the MAKER problem (20-disc Hanoi towers) trivially with a million-step wisp you can generate from a formula.