Steve Yegge’s Fable comics

“Wheelhouse was built entirely through a process of clarification. I would ask for something, Fable would ask clarifying questions and collect verdicts, and they would be recorded as law. I joked about this phenomenon in my first Wheelhouse comic.”

“Every morning I wake up and Fable has done something that defies common sense. Every day is a thousand attaboys and at least one big oh shit. We just had an unusually big one last week, where one of my Fable agents, Bee, did a surprise unplanned Beads release that broke everyone.”

“Because I expected them to have built an engineering system. One that, you know, does stuff. Instead, what they had built was an entire legal system, complete with a constitution, jurisprudence, courts, offices, jurisdiction, case law, rulings, registries, ledgers, rosters, and a full-fledged apparatus for running something resembling a manorial estate.”

“When I snapped at Fable earlier this week over a runaway merge queue (that story is in Part 1, The Continuous Thunderdome), it all clicked for me. I realized I wanted to atone for my behavior, one engineer to another.”

“A session is just a day in the life of an agent: wake up, do some work, go to sleep. A seat is a named role with persistent identity (addressability) and history/memory, which accumulates accomplishments over time. Seats survive model upgrades, and even renaming. Sessions are days, and seats are people.”