> Gastown, the agent management project that could only end up working on Gastown, unceremoniously and quietly set aside.

I was ignoring that, but it did seem somewhat intentional by the human running it? There's a lot of "I'm going to use AI to make a better AI-using machine" projects about that aren't really focused on wider application.

Yup and this propagates those clumsy if this_new_code_branch: actual_code_that_matters else: old_legacy_code_that_should_not_be_there

> This seems to be one of the core alignment problems to me. See also: Gastown, the agent management project that could only end up working on Gastown, unceremoniously and quietly set aside.

I did not know this! Any link to an announcement or autopsy of sorts (even if not by the initiator of that project)?

I mean, it was pretty expensive, wasn't it? A few tens of thousands of dollars, IIRC?