- Author
- Steve Yegge (yegge.ai)
- Published
- August 2026
- Kind
- Personal essay by a consultant, drawn from one large project
- Original
- yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/
- Subject
- Coding with agents
What it is
Steve Yegge wrote this as Part 1 of a series on yegge.ai. It describes Wheelhouse, a harness the author built for the game Wyvern. It then draws predictions from running that harness.
What it says
- The author says harnesses will soon be bespoke and built into each application.
- The author says an overnight loop needs unlimited tokens, Beads and Markdown notes.
- The author reports 18 Fable crew agents who design and review, plus Opus implementers.
- The author predicts human code review ends by next year, though not yet.
- The author says batched merge queues stalled, so whole batches now land at once.
- The author credits Guy Podjarny with the Wish Factory, where agents fix user requests.
- The author reports $87k a month of token use, paid for with about $2800.
What evidence it gives
The essay offers one long anecdote from the author's own project. It gives figures such as 175 real commits per day. It also cites batches of 120 to 150 commits. It relays one London developer's account of a similar practice. It also quotes Claude Fable 5 praising the setup. There are no benchmarks, code or outside measurements.
Interests and limits
The author sells consulting and teaching on these methods, as the page footer shows. Wheelhouse is closed-source, so nothing can be checked. The author says the setup is typical and others will follow. No data on other teams is given. The author also says the account rotation would likely break terms for a company.