The move faster manifesto (News)

What up, nerds? Shaboy. I'm Jared, and this is change log news for the week of Monday, 01/05/2026. Well, that was a nice break. Two weeks away, and I didn't write a lick of code. Who writes code anymore, honestly? I did take time to have Claude Code refresh the old blog and logged all your awesome book recommendations for everyone to peruse, there's more than 30 to pick from. Okay. Let's get into this week's news. The move faster manifesto. Brian Guthrie has worked in the software industry for over twenty years at organizations big and small. He's been a consultant, a line engineer, a director, a founder, and a CTO. Brian frequently gets asked how to move faster in software. He says it's easier to describe than it is to do, which many things are, and then goes on to provide his rules for moving fast. They are, one, it is possible to move fast, and fast matters. Two, fast is measured by what other people see. Three, you can be both fast and good. Four, it is everyone's responsibility to move fast. Five, moving fast takes courage. Six, busy is not fast. And seven, change fast or die. Each of those seven rules are detailed in his linked post. A context management system for Claude code. The problem, when Claude code runs low on context, it compacts or summarizes the conversation. Each compaction is lossy. After several, you're working from a summary of a summary of a summary. Signal degrades into noise. The solution, clear, don't compact, save state to a ledger, wipe context, resume fresh, and an implementation of that solution written in Python is linked up in the newsletter. A multi agent orchestrator for Cloud Code. Steve Yegi's Gastown project has similar goals to the previous one, but approaches the problem the way Steve often does by turning it up to 11. Here's what life looks like without Gastown. Agents forget work after restart. Manual coordination's required. Four to 10 agents is chaotic, and the work state is in agent memory. But with Gastown, it looks like this. Work persists on hooks, survives crashes, compaction, and restarts. Agents have mailboxes, identities, and structured handoffs. You can comfortably scale to 20 or 30 agents. And work state is in beads, which is a get backed ledger. I have no idea how this plays out in practice, but comfortably scale to 20 to 30 agents is a check I'd love to see somebody try to cash. My favorite idea of Steve's here is that once you have Gastown all set up, you talk to the mayor, and they create convoys, dispatch workers, and coordinate everything. Who runs Gastown? Both run fighter town. You know who. Say, master blaster. It's now time for sponsored news. 100,000,000 builds, nine hundred and sixty eight years saved. Depot just published their 2025 recap, and the numbers are staggering. They accelerated over 100,000,000 builds last year, saving engineering teams about eight point …