Gas Town would have been science fiction 18 months ago.
Like so much of that genre, it has become reality. Steve Yegge created a real system architecture that has demonstrated it is capable of directing, harnessing, and controlling the software development work of 30 agents. The human overseer has 30 terminal windows open to monitor what is happening and enters commands at great speed throughout the process; hence his advice not to try it unless you are a top echelon software engineer not prone to insanity.
But although it is chaotic, it works, and we can be sure that this demonstrator (the fourth version Yegge has produced over the past year) will soon evolve into a better version of a multi-agent software factory.
As for the crazy Moltbook experiment, that uses OpenClaw. This is an open-source platform allowing users to run autonomous AI agents locally that integrate with messaging apps to execute tasks and interact with other agents on a network.
Google just released Universal Commerce Protocol UCP), an open-source standard to power agentic commerce, providing a unified language for AI agents to discover products and execute secure transactions with businesses.
Both OpenClaw and UCP utilize the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable agents to do things in the real world. OpenClaw agents can use MCP-based skills to potentially transact with merchants adopting the UCP standard.
This is science fiction becoming reality before our eyes.