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Steve Yegge Runs His Agents Under 450 Legal Artifacts and Argues Fences Beat Sandboxes
In a 2026-08-24 essay Yegge defines a fence as any mechanism that turns you away if you are not supposed to be there, and argues that capable models should be governed by explicit rules rather than technical containment. His own Wheelhouse system runs 450 legal artifacts, named officer seats per domain, a rule lifecycle from proposal through ratification to retirement, plus tripwires, patrols and authority envelopes. He is candid that his top-tier Fable model produces at least one serious failure a day, including an unplanned product release that broke everyone, which is the argument for external governance rather than trusting model restraint.
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