2026-08-04 00:42 UTCOriginal source1 min readUpdated: 2026-08-04 01:11 UTC

Quoting Steve Yegge

<blockquote cite="https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/"><a href="https://yegge.ai/gastown.html">Gas Town</a> was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself. Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through 4.6 it was working brilliantly. With 4.7 we saw the introduction of the "just two more things" tic, which prevented Opus from ever converging on being ready to do real work—it always wanted to fiddle with Gas Town itself. The Opus tic never went away, so Gas Town effectively burned down. It had other problems, too, but 4.7 was the final straw.</blockquote> — <a href="https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/">Steve Yegge</a>, The Shape of Things to Come Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/steve-yegge">steve-yegge</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/coding-agents">coding-agents</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a>

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A quote from Steve Yegge

Simon Willison’s Weblog

4th August 2026

Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself. Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through 4.6 it was working brilliantly. With 4.7 we saw the introduction of the "just two more things" tic, which prevented Opus from ever converging on being ready to do real work—it always wanted to fiddle with Gas Town itself. The Opus tic never went away, so Gas Town effectively burned down. It had other problems, too, but 4.7 was the final straw.

— Steve Yegge, The Shape of Things to Come