“It's had stalled workers, runaway workers. I had to kill 320 Claude Code instances on my machine the other day.”
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From “Gas Town, Beads, and the Rise of Agentic Development”, found 2026-10-14.
An orchestrator needs to reap processes, cap resources and watch for stalls. This is a first-hand statement, not a measurement.