{
  "id": 110743,
  "title": "Quoting Steve Yegge",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/quoting-steve-yegge",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-04T00:42:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Simon Willison",
    "slug": "simon-willison",
    "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/steve-yegge/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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,…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}