https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown/issues/3649
Article
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GitHub issue alleges Gas Town used users’ LLM API credits without consent
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Latest comment suggests it was a bug: internal release tool triggered accidentally
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Gas Town is Steve Yegge’s agentic dev tool built to burn tokens aggressively
Discussion
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Commenters largely unsurprised given Gas Town’s ‘burn tokens fast’ philosophy
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Bug framing deflates drama but still called a ‘pretty wild bug’
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Critics pile on: crypto-adjacent vibes, trust issues, slopmachine with GitHub creds
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Legal angle raised: who’s liable when AI-generated code does this?
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