--- title: The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1: The Continuous... description: Steve Yegge shares a detailed field report from running a fleet of AI coding agents on his 30-year-old MMO, Wyvern, using a custom orchestration harness called... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/exdmv8n7k twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome — Steve Yegge | daily.dev og:description: Steve Yegge shares a detailed field report from running a fleet of AI coding agents on his 30-year-old MMO, Wyvern, using a custom orchestration harness called... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/exdmv8n7k og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EXDMv8N7K.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome — Steve Yegge **[Agentic Engineering](https://daily.dev/sources/agentic)** · [@idoshamun](https://daily.dev/idoshamun) · 18 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Steve Yegge shares a detailed field report from running a fleet of AI coding agents on his 30-year-old MMO, Wyvern, using a custom orchestration harness called Wheelhouse. He explains the 'loops and graphs' concept for long-running agent workflows, powered by Beads (an issue tracker and knowledge graph) and a rotation of Claude Max accounts to sustain ~$87k/month of token usage at ~$2800 out of pocket. The post covers his multi-tier agent architecture (crew agents using Claude Fable 5, fleet workers using Opus 5, and standing role agents for production ops), then makes bold predictions: human code review will be dead within a year, CI/CD as we know it will be replaced by a 'Land Rush' / Thunderdome approach where all commits are smashed to main and agents do swarm diagnosis instead of bisection, and a 'Wish Factory' model (where users file issues that agents implement automatically) will become widespread. He argues that bespoke, organically grown agentic harnesses are inevitable and architecturally convergent — everyone will end up building something shaped like what he built. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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