blog post - gas town from clown show to v 1

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/gas-town-from-clown-show-to-v1-0-c239d9a407ec

person - Steve Yegge

I realized I just wanted someone to talk to, while the system was working. And perhaps, as occasion might demand, someone to yell at.

The Mayor abstraction turned out to be perfect. Mayors are there to get yelled at. A Mayor isn’t so distant, like some higher-level governor or executive, to whom yelling seems like it will go unheard. A city mayor is ostensibly someone who has your local interests at heart, so the mayor is who you yell at first. It’s a social custom going back centuries. As one famous and rather wise U.S. mayor put it a week ago, if your constituents aren’t yelling at you, it’s because they aren’t around at all, and you don’t want that.

Working with regular coding agents just doesn’t give you that special feeling. I’m not making this up; this is a pretty consistent report I get from the field, from people around the world, particularly nontechnical people. I truly think it comes down to the Mayor giving you less stuff to read.

Claude Code only has one way to tell you what’s going on, which is to tell you what’s going on. It babbles while it works. “Now I will run this awk script s@(*fj$&h(*!&. Now I will print 8 pages of recaps. Now I’m deleting your database. Now I’m printing more recaps, and running another script here is the code #$AWESR@#$.”
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agent problem - agents make you read too much, but The Mayor solves that.