Picture Me Coding
Picture Me Coding is a music podcast about software. Each week your hosts Erik Aker and Mike Mull take on topics in the software world and they are sometimes joined by guests from other fields who arrive with their own burning questions about technology.
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TokenMaxxing!: Agentic Software Development with Bob Farzin
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In this episode we invite back our friend Bob Farzin to discuss our personal experiences with using teams of agents to write software, and we try to parse out the experiences we're seeing on the interwebs, including Steve Yegge's GasTown and Wes McKinney's discussion of agentic development in the context of Brooks's _Mythical Man Month_.
- "Introducing Beads: A coding agent memory system"
- Welcome to Gas Town — Steve Yegge's original essay
- The Future of Coding Agents — Yegge's follow-up
- Gas Town on GitHub — The actual tool
- How to Think About Gas Town — Steve Klabnik's analysis
- A Day in Gas Town — DoltHub's practical walkthrough
- Gas Town, Beads, and the Rise of Agentic Development — Software Engineering Daily interview with Yegge
- Top Coding Agents 2025 — Benched.ai comparison guide
- [April 8, Wes McKinney] AI Agents, The Mythical Agent Month, My Wild AI Coding Setup