Gas Town turns 20–30 Claude Code instances into a software company: Mayor, Deacon, Dogs, Witnesses, Polecats, Refinery, Convoys, Beads, Hooks, and Seances. One agent reminds another agent to remind the workers to work. Every model failure becomes an occasion to invent another anthropomorphic management layer.
The charitable reading is experimental systems research. The less charitable one—and mine—is Claude psychosis: mistaking the model’s willingness to sustain a metaphor for evidence that the metaphor describes useful machinery. You can vibe-design a system forever; continued elaboration does not prove that it works.