Building a Software Factory with Gas City
Om avsnittet
Stephanie Jarmak is an AI Engineer at Omni working on multi-agent orchestration and code intelligence. She is a research affiliate for NASA's Science Explorer (SciX) and a maintainer of Gas City, an open-source orchestration builder for multi-agent coding workflows.
Dan and Stephanie discuss how she became a Gas City maintainer by learning from review agents, encoding contribution standards in skills, and building an issue-triage workflow. Automating those steps exposed new reliability problems, from failures across dependencies to excessive alerts and agents that overreact to hypothetical risks.
Their conversation connects these experiments to Stephanie's move from planetary science into search and AI engineering. They examine the appeal of building with agents, the responsibility for maintaining what those agents produce, and the mixed emotions of seeing models solve once-difficult research tasks. Personal game projects and Omni's approach to shaping her role show how her curiosity carries across both work and home.
Chapters
- (00:00) - Contributing to open source with coding agents
- (08:51) - Learning the review standards and becoming a maintainer
- (12:58) - Automating a Gas City workflow
- (21:02) - Astronomy, computers, and a different path into development
- (27:40) - Working styles and responsibility for agent output
- (34:46) - Production responsibility and AI skepticism
- (40:12) - Human judgment and agents solving science tasks
- (45:55) - Pre-mortems, silent failures, and too many alerts
- (48:34) - Slack as an agent dashboard and shareable Gas City packs
- (53:45) - Building games and creative projects with the kids
- (59:06) - From planetary science to search and Sourcegraph
- (01:09:48) - Omni and a role shaped around the person
- (01:15:03) - Decision models and making automation easier
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Links from the show
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- Gas City
- Beads
- Gas Town
- Dolt
- Steve Yegge
- Claude Code
- Codex
- The Six Types of Working Genius
- Terminal-Bench Science
- Harbor
- Slack
- Suno
- Forge
- Scryfall
- 17Lands
- SciX
- Sourcegraph
- Amp
- Omni
- information retrieval
- pre-mortem
- reinforcement learning from human feedback
- Jev
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Guests
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Stephanie Jarmak, AI Engineer, Omni
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