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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

maggieappleton.comGas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at ScaleOn agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code

Maggie Appleton

@maggieappleton.com

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.

23/1/26, 2:26 pm0 reposts88 likes

Maggie Appleton

@maggieappleton.com

23 Jan

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.

fry69

@fry69.dev

23 Jan

I love the term "agentically conversative IDE user".

Also so much this ->

following over this post. god your site's design is so pleasant. thanks!

Cain Voong

@cain.oha.me

24 Jan

As someone reading this on mobile: thank you.

Hadley Wickham

@hadley.nz

23 Jan

I love the diagrams! So crisp, clear, and understandable.

Ted Underwood

@tedunderwood.com

23 Jan

You are very reasonably proud. This is brilliantly written, but the design is also so good it makes me ashamed of everything I have online I must change my life