# Steve Yegge Steve Yegge is an American software engineer and prolific tech blogger with 30+ years of industry experience. He graduated from Paradise High School at age 14, attended U.S. Navy Nuclear Power School, and earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington (1995). ## Career - **GeoWorks** (1992-1997): Software engineer - **Amazon** (1998-2005): Technical Program Manager, then engineering manager - **Google** (2005-2018): Senior Staff Software Engineer. Created Grok, an internal code analysis platform - **Grab** (2018-2020): Head of Engineering - **Independent** (2020-2022): Worked on Wyvern, his MMORPG side project - **Sourcegraph** (2022-2025): Head of Engineering, later IC role ## Notable writings Known for "Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants" and "Stevey's Blog Rants." Key pieces include the accidentally-public "Google Platforms Rant" (2011) criticizing Google's approach to platform building, and more recently "The Death of the Junior Developer" (2024). Co-authored "Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI" with Gene Kim. ## Notable projects - **Wyvern**: An MMORPG developed in Java, started in 1995, launched on Steam in 2021 - **[[Beads]]**: A git-backed issue-tracker/memory system for AI coding agents. Vibe-coded from concept to 1000+ GitHub stars in six days - **[[Gas Town]]**: A multi-agent orchestration framework written in Go (~189k lines) for managing 20-30 parallel AI coding agents ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Steve Yegge]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/book AND [[Steve Yegge]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Related - [[Gas Town]] - [[Beads]] - [[Claude Code]] - [[AI Agents]] ## References - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Yegge - Blog: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com - Medium: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/ - GitHub: https://github.com/steveyegge