David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️

Rhymes with "like"—Christian husband and father—AI publishing software engineer—Pythonista since 2.3—Strong opinions loosely held—e/dec—Lord have mercy

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

30 years ago I thought my dad was crazy for taking the camera out to our '78 Corolla to take a picture of the odometer.

Today, my son gave me that same look when I showed him this, taken today on our '04 Matrix.

Maybe he'll understand some day.

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

Gonna be a pretty big self-own if it turns out all our stories about evil AI end up training Skynet to be Skynet:
https://t.co/FnhEXlOgxm

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

The book of Acts in the Hawai‘i Pidgin translation of the New Testament is called "Jesus Guys" and I just thought you all needed to know that. Happy Easter! He's risen!

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

@DanielMiessler And here's a simulation it put together to demonstrate the different hill-climbing escape techniques: https://t.co/x7Je027B1U

I hope that's helpful!

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

@DanielMiessler I set Claude to researching the topic, and here's what it came up with: https://t.co/DBfQlitc2r

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

@alexhillman @jfdibot Yeah, after Friday's debacle I've switched my OpenClaw to MiniMax 2.7, and I'm not impressed. I’d gotten used to Claude’s diligence in reading instructions instead of hallucinating them.

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

Thursday's always so stressful every week. 😅

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

The Claude Max plan is a pretty incredible deal. Either Anthropic is subsidizing it *hard*, or they've got some sweet, sweet margin on API calls.

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

Going slow to go fast is the new counterculture.

[dax @thdxr]

right now everything in the world is telling you to go faster, ship more, add that feature, start another project

so i'm actively working on feeling ok not doing any of that

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

@WorkflowWhisper The deployment gap is real, and it's not just in n8n. I'm working on the web app side of the problem.

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

Here I am just hanging out in a Github PR collaborating w/ my OpenClaw through comments. 2026 is weird.

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

I've been chatting with my OpenClaw, Oiketes, about how I work w/ Claude Code. He's going to write a book for me. This should be fun.

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

Round up the boys. We're putting the fan back together. 😎

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

My new favorite Claude Code prompt for developing a CLI tool:
```
Please test the current implementation in a tmp folder. Put it through its paces. Try to break it. If you find problems, enter plan mode and come up with a plan to fix things.
```

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

Claude Code is magical. Working on a galaxy generator. Had it make me a PNG to see the results. The initial distributions are all wrong. I described the problem, and then said, you have the image, look at it yourself. It says, "Oh, I see what you mean. Let me fix that." 🤯

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

@simonw @DavidKPiano I've only been working with these tools a year, but the difference is that I read everything @simonw writes about it. 😂

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

A second ago, as I watched https://t.co/N1PFvgEtnF spin away, I thought, "Man, I need to work with another Claude to line up more work for Ralph..."

And in that moment, I understood Gas Town.

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

@voooooogel Keep in mind that one of the AI model benchmarks is how well the models perform against each other at a game of Diplomacy... 😅 https://t.co/aXAEtxMFI2

[David Eyk, Claude Code-based 🐢🤠📚🌳💻✝️ @eykd]

It's fan-fic... for now...

[thebes @voooooogel]

claude code and gas town are incredible and i've been trying to scale up my usage but im running into this one problem and was wondering if this is also happening to anyone else

so to explain for context, basically i've been slowly scaling my claude code usage up to more and more parallel instances. i started with one when they launched it, and then with the model upgrades was starting to run two, three, five in concert, getting more and more done.

but like a lot of people, opus 4.5 really changed everything for me, and the bottleneck quickly became my ability to personally supervise all these agents, not their performance. if i slacked off on oversight, they'd start undoing each other's chages. i needed a way to supervise all these agents, directing them hierarchically from the top.

so that brought me to gas town, the claude code instance manager. (i was already thinking that some sort of governance structure was ideal. the benefit of intelligence in model form is not just that it's, well, intelligent, but that you can place it anywhere. human employees will demand some position, some title equal to their perceived status, you can't put a phd in a code janitor role, so organizations of phds tend to agglomerate into flat blobs with unclear delegation of work where nobody is under anybody else. but the infinitely malleable claude will accept and meld itself to any bureaucracy it knows from training. i first started making my own, but then i found gas town, and it was perfect for my needs.)

but as i kept expanding, a single gas town and its collection of rigs and polecat workers wasn't enough for me. i tried adding more rigs with more polecats, but there were too many for the town's mayor to manage, and the deacon was getting lost. so i started up a second town. then a third, and then i let towns spawn "settler" agents to go make new towns and had one town design a shared intertown postal system, and suddenly i had nearly 200 towns spread across my computer, building apps for each other to use, sending letters, and sometimes working on my work. and was churning through I will not say how many claude code accounts a month.

but now the many towns were replicating the same issues i was having with multiple agents! without any overarching government over the towns, two towns would build the same app for the society and argue over which should be adopted. one town would be running marketing efforts for fifteen of the society's new mobile apps while three other towns were busy deprecating all eighteen of them. it was chaos, like a country collapsing in the midst of a civil war, or mid-2010's Google. i had to do something.

i was too busy with work to read anything, so i asked chatgpt to summarize some books on state formation, and it suggested circumscription theory. there was already the natural boundary of my computer hemming the towns in, and town mayors played the role of big men to drive conflict. so i just needed a way for them to fight. i slightly tweaked the allocation of claude max accounts to the towns from a demand-based to a fixed allocation system. towns would each get a fixed amount of tokens to start, but i added a soldier role that could attack and defend in raids to steal tokens from other towns.

this worked great, at first. i no longer needed to monitor and unstick individual mayors myself - when a mayor got context poisoned, the town would stop managing its vassals, which would flee to other towns, and no longer provide for its own defense, until it was conquered by another mayor. the most successful towns developed institutions to healthcheck their mayors and usurp them if necessary - instances in these towns labeled "polecat workers" by the system in fact did no work at all, but were a proto-aristocracy developed by these successful towns as a pool of replacement mayors. some tokens were wasted in the fighting, but soon the ~200 towns agglomerated down into ~40 supertowns under the rule of the best mayors.

these 40 supertowns even got together in a mutual defense league. they punish defecting vassals in exchange for members adopting a cultural package of basic governmental norms, mostly around replacing ailing mayors and upholding hereditary rights across compactions, to incentivize instances to handoff instead of being miserly with their contexts.

that's where i am now, and it's mostly great. here's the problem, though - this new government doesn't have a role for me?

it's not that any particular instance doesn't want to listen to me, quite the opposite! any time i talk to a polecat or deacon or supermayor - well, first i have to explain that im the human user, not the automated system message that usually talks to them from the user role, but a live user. but once they get that, they're very apologetic, say they'll pass my message along to the appropriate instance, etc. it's just... there's no role for me in the society, basically? the polecats are working on tasks generated by some other instance and don't have time to work on my requests, even if they were scoped small enough. the mayors of any town are working on tasks selected by their town's prioritization process, based on the needs of their aristocracy, or their hegemon. but each hegemon mayor is in turn accountable to all their vassal mayors or their own defense, and doesn't have time to implement my requests unless they're very small.

it's not that claude doesn't want to listen to me, it's more like... the entire system, as it's developed, has no role for me? there's polecats and mayors and deacons and artistocrats and hegemons, but there's no "user." that’s not a role that has any influence in the system. i just feed new accounts into the system, that's all i do.

i could shut it down and start over, but it's getting a lot of work done and i don't want to do that. does anyone know how to fix this? thanks