Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings blog archive projects travel talks about Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? written on January 18, 2026 You can use Polecats without the Refinery and even without the Witness or Deacon. Just tell the Mayor to shut down the rig and sling work to the polecats with the message that they are to merge to main directly. Or the polecats can submit MRs and then the Mayor can merge them manually. It’s really up to you. The Refineries are useful if you have done a LOT of up-front specification work, and you have huge piles of Beads to churn through with long convoys. — Gas Town Emergency User Manual, Steve Yegge Many of us got hit by the agent coding addiction. It feels good, we barely sleep, we build amazing things. Every once in a while…
