# How Steve Yegge actually uses coding agents

Gas Town, Beads, Vibe Coding

**If you take one thing:** `Seats`, 18 long-lived Fable officers. every agent boots into a named office with its own memory and authority, which he says saves tokens.

- **Agent:** Claude Code (cli) ([source, 2026-08-02](https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/))
- **Agent:** Codex ([source, 2026-08-02](https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/))
- **Model:** Claude Opus 5.5 ([source, 2026-10-03](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2106205282926051596))
- **Model:** Claude Fable 5.1 ([source, 2026-09-15](https://yegge.ai/essays/seats-and-sunsets/))
- **Review:** Fable reviews every Opus change; he doesn't read code ([source, 2026-08-02](https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/))
- **At once:** 20+ agents ([source, 2026-10-09](https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2108393181196722238))
- **Harness:** Wheelhouse, all in Emacs, tmux underneath, Beads on Dolt ([source, 2026-08-02](https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/))
- **Rules file:** AGENTS.md (CLAUDE.md points to it), beads for all tasks ([source, 2026-06-11](https://github.com/steveyegge/efrit/blob/4df8dfd59d42e8290e683e3216a448b49d031ee2/AGENTS.md#L30))
- **MCP servers:** none ([source, 2026-08-02](https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/))

## In their words

> I have a GCP VM for Claude Code, and also a Mac Mini that bridges dev and prod, sort of a "corp network."

> I also have a small parallel fleet of five named Sol 5.6 workers on Codex, all named for sun gods. I use it as a fallback for when my Max accounts run out, which is increasingly often, despite me adding new ones once or twice a week.

> I still think Opus 5.5 is an incredible model and I use it for the majority of work now.

> I first switched most of my seats to Fable 5.1 (my headless Aesop reviewer pool is still Fable 5)

> I run Emacs with 20+ agents and it drives terminals about as hard as you can


Archetype (our label): Swarm Lord. Newest source: 2026-10-09.
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