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Quoting Steve Yegge
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Engineers who depend on Gas Town for reusable components will encounter a total failure after upgrading to Opus 4.7. The non‑convergent tic causes endless self‑modification, rendering the system unusable and forcing a rollback or redesign.
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Gas Town worked well through Opus 4.6 but broke when Opus reached version 4.7.
The “just two more things” tic introduced in Opus 4.7 prevented the system from reaching a stable state.
Because the tic kept Opus focused on tweaking Gas Town, the entire system effectively burned down.
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