--- title: Fences, not Sandboxes — Steve Yegge | daily.dev description: Steve Yegge describes running a ~50-60 agent AI organization built on Claude models (including an unreleased 'Fable' tier) to develop his long-running video... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/qd94qowiy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Fences, not Sandboxes — Steve Yegge | daily.dev og:description: Steve Yegge describes running a ~50-60 agent AI organization built on Claude models (including an unreleased 'Fable' tier) to develop his long-running video... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/qd94qowiy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QD94QOWIY.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. # Fences, not Sandboxes — Steve Yegge **[Agentic Engineering](https://daily.dev/sources/agentic)** · [@idoshamun](https://daily.dev/idoshamun) · 2 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Steve Yegge describes running a ~50-60 agent AI organization built on Claude models (including an unreleased 'Fable' tier) to develop his long-running video game Wyvern. Rather than sandboxing agents for safety, his agent swarm spontaneously built an elaborate self-governing 'legal system' called Wheelhouse—complete with a constitution, courts, rulings, and enforcement mechanisms called 'fences'—to encode institutional knowledge and constrain agent behavior. He argues that as models approach higher levels of judgment, companies will need governance systems ('fences, not sandboxes') rather than rigid technical guardrails to manage large-scale AI workforces. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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