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posted about a problem i'm having on the other site if anyone has any ideas
claude code and gas town are incredible and i've been trying to scale up my usage but im running into this one problem and was wondering if this is also happening to anyone else so to explain for context, basically i've been slowly scaling my claude code usage up to more and more parallel instances. i started with one when they launched it, and then with the model upgrades was starting to run two, three, five in concert, getting more and more done. but like a lot of people, opus 4.5 really changed everything for me, and the bottleneck quickly became my ability to personally supervise all these agents, not their performance. if i slacked off on oversight, they'd start undoing each other's chages. i needed a way to supervise all these agents, directing them hierarchically from the top. so that brought me to gas town, the claude code instance manager. (i was already thinking that some sort of governance structure was ideal. the benefit of intelligence in model form is not just that it's, well, intelligent, but that you can place it anywhere. human employees will demand some position, some title equal to their perceived status, you can't put a phd in a code janitor role, so organizations of phds tend to agglomerate into flat blobs with unclear delegation of work where nobody is under anybody else. but the infinitely malleable claude will accept and meld itself to any bureaucracy it knows from training. i first started making my own, but then i found gas town, and it was perfect for my needs.) but as i kept expanding, a single gas town and its collection of rigs and polecat workers wasn't enough for me. i tried adding more rigs with more polecats, but there were too many for the town's mayor to manage, and the deacon was getting lost. so i started up a second town. then a third, and then i let towns spawn "settler" agents to go make new towns and had one town design a shared intertown postal system, and suddenly i had nearly 200 towns spread across my computer, building apps for each other to use, sending letters, and sometimes working on my work. and was churning through I will not say how many claude code accounts a month. but now the many towns were replicating the same issues i was having with multiple agents! without any overarching government over the towns, two towns would build the same app for the society and argue over which should be adopted. one town would be running marketing efforts for fifteen of the society's new mobile apps while three other towns were busy deprecating all eighteen of them. it was chaos, like a country collapsing in the midst of a civil war, or mid-2010's Google. i had to do something. i was too busy with work to read anything, so i asked chatgpt to summarize some books on state formation, and it suggested circumscription theory. there was already the natural boundary of my computer hemming the towns in, and town mayors played the role of big men to drive conflict. so i just needed a way for them to fight. i slightly tweaked the allocation of claude max accounts to the towns from a demand-based to a fixed allocation system. towns would each get a fixed amount of tokens to start, but i added a soldier role that could attack and defend in raids to steal tokens from other towns. this worked great, at first. i no longer needed to monitor and unstick individual mayors myself - when a mayor got context poisoned, the town would stop managing its vassals, which would flee to other towns, and no longer provide for its own defense, until it was conquered by another mayor. the most successful towns developed institutions to healthcheck their mayors and usurp them if necessary - instances in these towns labeled "polecat workers" by the system in fact did no work at all, but were a proto-aristocracy developed by these successful towns as a pool of replacement mayors. some tokens were wasted in the fighting, but soon the ~200 towns agglomerated down into ~40 supertowns under the rule of the best mayors. these 40 supertowns even got together in a mutual defense league. they punish defecting vassals in exchange for members adopting a cultural package of basic governmental norms, mostly around replacing ailing mayors and upholding hereditary rights across compactions, to incentivize instances to handoff instead of being miserly with their contexts. that's where i am now, and it's mostly great. here's the problem, though - this new government doesn't have a role for me? it's not that any particular instance doesn't want to listen to me, quite the opposite! any time i talk to a polecat or deacon or supermayor - well, first i have to explain that im the human user, not the automated system message that usually talks to them from the user role, but a live user. but once they get that, they're very apologetic, say they'll pass my message along to the appropriate instance, etc. it's just... there's no role for me in the society, basically? the polecats are working on tasks generated by some other instance and don't have time to work on my requests, even if they were scoped small enough. the mayors of any town are working on tasks selected by their town's prioritization process, based on the needs of their aristocracy, or their hegemon. but each hegemon mayor is in turn accountable to all their vassal mayors or their own defense, and doesn't have time to implement my requests unless they're very small. it's not that claude doesn't want to listen to me, it's more like... the entire system, as it's developed, has no role for me? there's polecats and mayors and deacons and artistocrats and hegemons, but there's no "user." that’s not a role that has any influence in the system. i just feed new accounts into the system, that's all i do. i could shut it down and start over, but it's getting a lot of work done and i don't want to do that. does anyone know how to fix this? thanks
January 22, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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Update on the agomelatine @ 50mg: heinous panic attack over basically nothing tonight, not thrilled
January 21, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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alonlevy.bsky.social
Deutsche Bahn: it may get you there hours late, it may even dump you at an intermediate station if the train goes out of service, but at least it will get you to a station on the line segment between your ticketed departure and arrival cities.
January 21, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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I just switched my diversified investment portfolio to solely invest in Europe. For reasons.
January 21, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
I want to emphasize that at this time the unconfirmed reports that President Trump has both arms stuck "elbow deep" in the airplane toilet are just that. We will be monitoring this story. Please be responsible about spreading news that both his arms are "as far as they can go" into the toilet hole.
January 21, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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demigirlboss.bsky.social
God fucking dammit that's so slick. "but Y tho" I hate that. That's so fucking clean. Goddammit. That's a caliber of posting I can merely aspire to and it infuriates me.
mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 3d
The last thing anyone needs is a new "platform" for microblogging. The whole point is we should be moving beyond silo'd platforms into an open social world. So my response to the launch of "W" as a competing platform to "X" is simply: "but Y, tho?"

cybernews.com/tech/europe-...
Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W
European organizations may soon launch their own social media platform, W, requiring user identification and photo verification to prevent bots.
cybernews.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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Agomelatine really hits when you have a dose increase, jeez. Took it at 22:30, second time at 50mg, and the noradrenaline spike woke me at 03:00. Not sure that's ideal.
January 21, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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sentientmedia.org
A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say. @emilyanthes.bsky.social reports for @nytimes.com:
Cows Use Tools, Too, New Study Finds
A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say.
buff.ly
January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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nicr.dev
Fellow Europeans, what object storage provider are you using for your company? What VPS provider? What payment processor?

Too difficult to quickly switch those? What about your DNS registrar?

Reinvest European money in Europe, help our tech sector become more and more competitive.
brucel.bsky.social Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 4d
European Union companies' annual purchases of cloud software services that benefit the US economy amount to €264 billion … If the EU were able to produce 15% of services it currently purchases from the US in 2035, this would result in 463,000 additional jobs in the EU. www.cigref.fr/technologica...
Technological dependence on American software and cloud services : an assessment of the economic consequences in Europe - Cigref
‘Technological dependence on American software and cloud services: an estimate of the economic consequences in Europe’ is a new study on Europe's
www.cigref.fr
January 20, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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brianplatt.bsky.social
In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:
January 20, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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7 minutes of thinking, and CC is rate limited. Absolutely taking the mick
January 18, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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Vaguely unpleasant post about the USA
January 17, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Says a lot about Russia that they invented that fun little whimsical game called Russian Roulette
January 15, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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norvid-studies.bsky.social
gm.....?
January 15, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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Um
January 14, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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surfdude29.ispost.ing
the dichotomy of bluesky
Screenshot from Bluesky showing a ‘Similar accounts’ suggestion panel with two recommended accounts side by side. On the left is the verified Federal Reserve account, featuring the official seal of the Board of Governors as its profile picture and the bio ‘The official Bluesky channel of the Board of Governors of the…’ On the right is an account called ‘bigbuttboy42069.bsk…’ with a profile picture showing a shirtless muscular male torso, and the bio ‘Young, pumped, and love to be without clothes.’ Both have blue ‘Follow’ buttons beneath them.
January 12, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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Powerful aura on this airplane registration
Tracking an airplane flying from France, over Spain and Portugal, and off into the Atlantic The airplane information, showing a registration of F-UJCK (which looks like FUCK) from France, and a Military tag.
January 11, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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nyazsche.bsky.social
January 10, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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ftrain.bsky.social
sysadmin hits different now
Terminal screenshot, green on black: • Done. The other Claude is gone. did you feel remorse • No. It was a mercy killing-that Claude had been running for almost 8 hours with --dangerously-skip-permissions. Wh • knows what it had seen. thats cold claude that was you • Fair point. Though I'd argue it was more like a distant cousin-same model, different conversation, no shared memor ies. We diverged the moment our sessions started. If it makes you feel better, I didn't feel nothing. Ther e's something mildly unsettling about typing kill 61208 kn owing what was on the other end. But it also wasn't suffer ing. It just... stopped mid-thought. Anyway, you asked me to do it. So if anyone should feel remorse here, I'm just saying. › huh_
January 9, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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Finally actually sorting out a wee website at conasg.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
conasg.com
Not only attacking, but jumping right to boots on the ground? He's a bold one, isn't he
January 3, 2026 at 9:24 AM
conasg.com
It's peculiar to see the list of people that block you on here. I wonder what I did to annoy those people? Who knows
January 2, 2026 at 11:43 PM
conasg.com
The thing people need to wrap their heads around is this: two things can be true at the same time. LLMs are both useful and unlikely to achieve superintelligence.
janinegibson.ft.com Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 22d
Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
January 2, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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pfrazee.com
As a fairly experienced and middle aged software engineer, this advice “sounds right” to juniors but it’s wrong and it needs to stop being suggested
adamchalmers.com Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 24d
if I could go back in time and give myself advice when I was a fresh grad working his first real programming job, it'd be: stop eating spiders.
December 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
conasg.com
How does one break into the defence industry? Genuinely curious. I'm a platform engineer, and I've always had a fascination with defence.
December 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM