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Steve Yegge

Independent; builds and runs Wheelhouse, a solo multi-agent software factory (2026), Steve Yegge (independent).

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Writes essays on Medium and yegge.ai. In his October 2026 post he says he is building a video game, Wyvern, with a team of AI agents, and that he ran Amazon.com's Customer Service Tools group in the early 2000s.

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There is structure: doctrine and policy, human gates, and just fourteen mechanical “fences” (programmatic denials). But my agents are first-class colleagues. They work under my own identity, signing their own names to the work, and they can see the whole system and act independently. It is YOLO mode scaled up to the size of a small company.

Steve YeggeIndependent; builds and runs Wheelhouse, a solo multi-agent software factory (2026) · Executive, Steve Yegge (independent)

Post: The Counting House, Medium (Steve Yegge), October 27, 2026, at Wheelhouse Recap.

  • 14 fences mechanical fences, 2026

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Sells AI tools Passage page

Wheelhouse is far more sophisticated, and is now doubtless one of the top solo software factories on the planet, comfortably producing 2000–4000 commits a week on a light multi-machine setup. Its agents work around the clock: building, reviewing, deploying game features, negotiating on Slack with my game admins, interacting on Discord with players, exchanging emails with my accountant and my lawyers.

Steve YeggeIndependent; builds and runs Wheelhouse, a solo multi-agent software factory (2026) · Executive, Steve Yegge (independent)

Post: The Counting House, Medium (Steve Yegge), October 27, 2026, at Wheelhouse Recap.

  • 3,000 commits commits per week, weekly, 2026. No person in the loop

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Sells AI tools Passage page

I am running an organization of around 50-60 agents, five of whom are interfacing with around 10 humans in the outside world: myself, my 5-person core game design team, my accountant, my chief of staff, and a few others. Only Fable is allowed to talk to humans, via Slack and email.

Steve YeggeIndependent; builds and runs Wheelhouse, a solo multi-agent software factory (2026) · Executive, Steve Yegge (independent)

Post: Fences, not Sandboxes, yegge.ai (Steve Yegge), August 24, 2026.

  • 55 agents agents in organization, 2026

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Sells AI tools Passage page

I am spending the equivalent of $122k/month of API token spend, or about $4,000 per day, using 21 Claude Max accounts, a number that has been growing steadily at 2 per week.

Steve YeggeIndependent; builds and runs Wheelhouse, a solo multi-agent software factory (2026) · Executive, Steve Yegge (independent)

Post: Fences, not Sandboxes, yegge.ai (Steve Yegge), August 24, 2026.

  • $122,000 api token spend per month, 2026

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Sells AI tools Passage page

The big companies I’m talking to (e.g. banks) tell me they are still struggling with AI in software development. They see promising but inconsistent results, non-replicability across teams, ballooning costs, internal cultural pushback, etc.

Steve YeggeIndependent; builds and runs Wheelhouse, a solo multi-agent software factory (2026) · Executive, Steve Yegge (independent)

Post: The Counting House, Medium (Steve Yegge), October 27, 2026.

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Sells AI tools Passage page