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Raising an Agent, S2E3: When Tokens Flow Like Electricity. Quinn Slack and Thorsten Ball on what happens when intelligence gets cheap: build vs. buy flips, why everyone building software to build software to do X is probably incorrect, and when software starts to feel like owning a house instead of renting one. 00:00 Intro: Cheap intelligence & doing X instead of building software to do X 01:06 Back home after Munich & what's changed in how we build 02:06 Predictions: the price of intelligence drops, tokens flow like electricity 05:54 Everyone is building dev tools & why that's the wrong bet 06:57 Pet theory: engineers can't believe it's this easy 10:33 Orbs vs. EC2, a VPN & tmux 17:18 Build vs. buy when the models keep changing 20:14 If Amp is worth buying, why isn't an issue tracker? 27:34 Killing features & vibe coding the 2% of a SaaS product you need 30:03 Build on a solid core: glue code is the worst part 33:19 The two Amps: jellyware, homeowners & renters 37:01 Exporting the Amp way to more teams 43:42 Opinionated software from people you trust
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Would you prefer to save money with dial-up when your competitors are using fiber? Recorded on Hot Take Thursday, Quinn Slack and Thorsten Ball are back with a new Raising An Agent. In this episode they discuss how cheaper models end up costing more, why they do not not wait for agents, running evals in Orbs, and the hot takes Thorsten left out of his X post last week. 00:00 Intro: Engineers who forget the history of technology 01:55 Hot Take Thursday & a €50-a-week token budget 05:14 Why cheap models cost more than frontier models 08:11 Token budgets & who gets priced out 14:06 Disrupt yourself with small teams & unlimited tokens 16:38 Agents go horizontal across the software lifecycle 20:56 Rollouts, bug reports & "I'm feeling Pucky" 23:53 Code review, monorepos & other walls around the agent 25:30 How to show a cautious company what agents can do 29:48 Why most people haven't seen what agents can do 31:57 Don't wait for your agent 33:38 Simple evals & agents testing agents in Orbs 38:27 Why Amp has runners too 40:47 Follow your energy & stay aligned 46:33 The hot take Thorsten left out 54:14 Do languages & frameworks still matter?
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What is the computer for now? In Raising an Agent S2E4, Quinn Slack and Thorsten Ball explore how agents can do more than just ship code, discuss recent outages, and ask what happens to our computers when more work moves into Orbs. 00:00 Intro: What is the computer for now? 01:32 New models & aiming higher with agents 04:42 An agent's job after the code ships 10:19 Mini evals & keeping the team's context in threads 13:38 Performance testing & production canaries 18:36 Amp's recent outages & what went wrong 24:44 Shipping faster & the tradeoffs of redundancy 28:34 How fast can an engineering team go? 32:27 Making production logs & metrics useful to agents 37:15 Beyond local development 41:30 Agents building 3D models & virtual worlds 43:35 Simpler devices & dictating work on the go 47:29 What happens to the tools we love? 49:27 Steering, queuing & changing workflows
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Episode 10 of Raising An Agent with Quinn Slack and Thorsten Ball is out! There's no better summary than this quote: "We will be killing our editor extension, the Amp VS Code extension. We're going to be killing it. And we're going to be killing it because we think it's no longer the future. We think the sidebar is dead. Let's walk through why." Topics in this episode: - The new deep mode in Amp - Balancing developer experience for humans & agents - Killing the VSCode extension & shift away from traditional editors - Pi & OpenClaw, two wonderful projects - Importance of reinventing yourself in AI Enjoy! And happy hacking! Timestamps: 01:00 Deep Mode 10:30 Optimizing the codebase for agents 15:00 Feature Preview: which Skills does your team use? 18:00 Balancing DX for humans & agents 21:35 Killing the Amp editor extension 28:00 The future of software and what it means 33:00 You need to stay agile 36:00 Pi & OpenClaw 39:00 Text editors holding companies back 44:00 Is manual context management coming to an end? 49:00 New concept for Threads 50:00 Amp, the business & the art installation
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Episode 2 of Raising an Agent Season 2: Orbs and Jellyware. Quinn Slack and Thorsten Ball recorded this one together in person in Munich last week, where the whole Amp team had gathered for a week of building. They discuss why isolated Orbs make it easier to run agents in parallel, how the team asks agents for exhaustive verification, and how production itself can become a feedback loop. They also discuss jellyware: high-quality software that is designed to change quickly. When agents make software more malleable, teams can fix bugs faster and raise the quality bar instead of lowering it. 00:00 Intro: Agents in Orbs & production feedback loops 01:17 Recording together in Munich & what shipped since episode 1 03:56 How the Amp team adopted Orbs 07:00 Giving agents safe production access 11:01 Zero-friction threads & the limits of local checkouts 13:02 Asking agents for 100% proof 18:54 Production as a feedback loop 22:15 Multiplayer & agents as collaborative tools 24:13 Design workflows with Portals 27:27 High-quality software beyond vibe coding 31:17 How code review changes when agents write the code 35:26 Dictation & getting better context into agents 39:08 Jellyware: high-quality software that changes fast 42:27 Faster bug fixes, feedback & the quality budget 49:34 What Amp shipped: subscriptions, Puck, and agent communication 51:42 Automations, polling, and webhooks
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"I'm just pointing at things and saying, make it like this and ship this and do this. The altitude is so high. It's wild. Even compared to two months ago." Thorsten Ball on using agents for the whole lifecycle of a feature: building, testing, shipping, monitoring the rollout, toggling feature flags, talking to users.
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Raising An Agent is back! In the first episode of season 2, Quinn Slack and Thorsten Ball discuss why the Amp team went heads-down the last few months to rebuild Amp around remote-controllable, parallel agents, running locally or in orbs. They also talk about how this shift changed our development workflows and what that means for the future of local development. 00:00 Intro: Is local development obsolete? 00:53 What we've been up to since "the coding agent is dead" 03:03 The Amp Neo rewrite and what has changed 07:38 From unconstrained tokens to unconstrained parallel agents 11:25 How orbs change our development workflow 18:25 Cloud agents are underestimated 20:18 Killing obsolete features & choosing agents as a team 23:35 Why developers overestimate local development 27:54 Pushing straight to main & rethinking CI 31:20 How agents will reshape teams, products & companies 36:40 Complex dev environments & standardization 43:20 Amp subscriptions 45:55 What’s shipping next
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What can United Airlines teach Anthropic and OpenAI about pricing? Or, what does flying economy have to do with token subsidies?
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“I thought you guys were all about non-local dev, so why do you have the runners?” Thorsten Ball on runners, which run Amp agents on machines you own: a Raspberry Pi at home, a lab of test hardware, GPU boxes, a macOS build machine. “I think runners on different machines are non-local too, you know?”
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You don't need a PhD to run evals. Quinn Slack had agents build fake shopfronts and permit sites, complete with annoying cookie banners, to improve browser use in orbs. “It's like with usability testing: you learn most of the insights from the first three people you talk to”
Amp11,874 просмотров • 20 дней назад
Some say AI has led to more bugs, slop, and the enshittification of software. But did it?
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Is vibe coding fun? Or does it take away the funnest parts of programming and leave you with the rest?
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"Omarchy would not have existed without AI." DHH on how AI actually boosts developer productivity.
Amp57,168 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад
What changes when each agent gets its own disposable computer? For us, turns out a lot.
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Writing code now is faster than clicking through five web forms. Are agents the end of admin interfaces?
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After many months, a lot of model releases and even more Amp releases, here it is: A new episode of Raising An Agent with Quinn Slack and Thorsten Ball. They discuss: - Why Gemini 3 might have been the inflection point, not Opus 4.5 - What changed over Christmas and why everybody talks about agents now - "The assistant is dead, long live the factory" - How codebases need to adapt for agents - Why small/local models don't give you an impression of the frontier - What does it mean for a codebase to be agent-friendly? - New things coming to Amp Enjoy! And happy hacking! Timestamps: 1:51 The Impact of Gemini 3 and Opus 4.5 5:28 Shifting Perceptions of AI Agents 10:17 Adapting Codebases for AI Efficiency 14:48 The Future of Software Development with AI Agents 19:29 Challenges and Opportunities Ahead 24:00 The Importance of Frontier Models 25:12 Adapting to AI-Driven Workflows 26:57 The Future of Coding Agents 28:07 Building an Agentic Code Base 30:22 Rethinking Development Tools 31:44 Amp's Evolution and Team Dynamics 33:00 Discord Q&A 39:18 Teasing New Features: Deep
Amp36,551 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад