The Orchestrator - the leadership skill of the AI Age

Suhit Anantula

07 Apr 2026 — 1 min read

Steve Yegge launched GasTown on Jan 1 2026. Gas Town is basically how you can use claude code to create a team (mayor, polecat, crew, beads etc) to manage more claude codes and create more work.

The whole idea is the idea of "orchestration" and beads as the ledger of your work. A way to capture your knowledge graph for every project and just works over time for any agent and gives them a memory.

Lets not get too technical here.

The point I want to make is that Steve did something amazing and create this image in the post about how we go from chat to claude code to "Yolo Mode" - basically trusting the model to do everything to multiple coding sessions to getting too complicated and finally to gastown as a orchestrator.

Why should this matter to non-coders and leaders?

I think this is the going to be the way to go for all knowledge workers. These 8 stages will be exactly where I have been and have reached gastown.

I am writing the "the co-intelligent org" book and realised that I am now almost there and have some surgical additions based on new research on AI native startups, enterprise and govt and NFP data from 2026 Mar that needs to be included.

I thought how about I use gas town as the orchestrator to make this work. I finished the first 90% and I thought I should the last 90% with gastown.

This really gave me insight into how knowledge work is going in the same direction.

We all need to be orchestrators.

It's not just coding but your procurement teams, finance teams, marketing teams, HR teams and everyone else will need to develop co-intelligent workflows and gas town provides the starting point of thinking about how this can look like.

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