“Obliterate like about 40% of that. It was just scorched it, right? All the fences. We only kept like 14 out of like 100 plus fences.”

— Steve Yegge · Transcript, turn starting 02:00

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From “Inside Steve Yegge’s Software Factory: Lessons from Running 50 Agents”, found 2026-10-14.

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His agents had kept adding gates until "nobody could do anything". Safety checks that agents write for themselves pile up into a throughput problem of their own. Quoted from the page's machine-generated transcript.