Steve Yegge says he runs Wheelhouse, a 50-60-agent software operation that builds and operates his long-running game Wyvern. The system uses 21 Claude Max accounts on a 512GB M3 Ultra Mac Studio, which he says represents roughly $122,000 a month in API-token value but costs him about $5,000 monthly through individual-plan discounts. Over nearly 10 weeks, Yegge says the agents helped prepare Wyvern for Android, iOS and Steam, rewrote its production infrastructure for serverless operation, and process an average of 270 commits a day. Yegge says Wheelhouse developed a text-based governance system rather than relying solely on sandboxing agents. It contains about 450 legal artifacts, including offices, runbooks, rulings, tripwires and authority envelopes. Rules can progress from customs and warnings to constitutional requirements and automated enforcement. More than 100 “fences” restrict actions based on role, credentials or policy; for example, only the Fable model is permitted to communicate externally with people through Slack and email. Yegge characterizes current models as capable but prone to poor judgment, and argues that organizations deploying large AI workforces will need to document institutional knowledge and establish evolving, machine-enforceable rules for agent coordination.

A proposal calls on Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) to buy OpenAI and ultimately place the AI lab under international multilateral governance. The proposal argues that increasingly capable AI could automate most or all jobs, concentrate wealth and power among system owners, and create societal risks that private companies cannot adequately manage. It characterizes large language models as products of collectively created data, publicly funded research, universities, and internet infrastructure. The proposal puts GPFG’s value at more than $2 trillion and OpenAI’s valuation at about $800 billion, arguing that Norway could finance an acquisition by liquidating roughly 40% of the fund’s portfolio, despite violating its mandate. It says OpenAI began as a nonprofit with capped profits and a windfall clause, and alleges that approval from the California attorney general enabled the organization’s conversion to a for-profit corporation and removal of those commitments. The proposal cites Norway’s democratic stability, management of oil wealth, foreign-aid spending, mediation record, and international institutional ties as reasons to trust it with a temporary stewardship role. It acknowledges that the U.S. government would probably block such an intervention and urges broader policy planning for public or democratic ownership of leading AI labs.

1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important conversation. First, on regulation, I think that “either concentrate it in the hands of a chosen few companies and politicians via regulation or distribute it widely” is a false choice. I know that there’s a sort ...

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