
Independent Advisor & Creator of Beads & Gas Town · Independent
Steve Yegge is a software engineer, writer, and independent AI adviser who created Beads and Gas Town, open-source tools that preserve coding agents’ work and coordinate their sessions. Earlier, he built Google’s internal code knowledge graph, Grok, and wrote the Platforms Rant. His recent work puts his enthusiasm for autonomous development through the demands of a live multiplayer game: agents must carry assignments across sessions, integrate their changes, and serve players who may not welcome every increase in development speed.