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Fences, not Sandboxes
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Written in a single sitting after weeks of failed attempts to explain Wheelhouse — Steve's 50-agent software factory — at all, this one gives up on being comprehensive and settles for being astonished. It opens with the receipts (the token bill, the eBay Mac Studio, the 21 accounts) and then gets to the part Steve himself didn't see coming: he asked his agents to show him what they'd built, and they handed him a medieval government. The grade-school report card he issues the frontier models along the way is the most quotable stretch, and the Superman-at-the-picket-fence image that gives the essay its title is doing real argumentative work, not just charm.
It reads as a field report rather than a manifesto, which is where its force comes from — the man is plainly describing furniture he trips over daily. Whether the legal-system framing is a deep truth about coordinating amnesiac intelligences or one eccentric factory's house style is exactly the question the essay wants you to sit with. The first and fourth Wheelhouse comics are embedded as evidence.
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