Steve Yegge: CI/CD and human code review will be dead by next year, treat agents like people

The Shape of Things to Come

Steve Yegge is running fleets of agents overnight on his MMO Wyvern using a new personal harness called Wheelhouse. He predicts CI/CD and human code review will be largely dead by next year, replaced by a 'continuous thunderdome' of agent collaboration. He also argues that treating agents like people yields empirically better results—engineering fixes for model welfare are promised in Part 2. The post does not disclose Wheelhouse's technical details or release timeline.

Why it matters: Yegge's engineering judgment carries weight, and the essay offers concrete predictions and a counterintuitive finding, hitting all three HKR axes. Score capped at 78 because Wheelhouse is closed-source with no disclosed technical details, so claims can't be reproduced or verif...