Changelog Interviews – Episode #648

Agent, take the wheel

with Thorsten Ball from Sourcegraph Amp

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Thorsten Ball returned to Sourcegraph to work on Amp because he believes being able to talk to an alien intelligence that edits your code changes everything. On this episode, Thorsten joins us to discuss exactly how coding agents work, recent advancements in AI tooling, Amp’s uniqueness in a sea of competitors, the divide between believers and skeptics, and more.

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Chapters

1 00:00 This week on The Changelog 01:13
2 01:13 Sponsor: Depot 02:14
3 03:27 Start the show! 00:19
4 03:46 How to build an agent 06:07
5 09:53 You felt the AGI? 03:25
6 13:18 Tool calling 03:47
7 17:06 A basic algorithm 05:19
8 22:24 Amp's angle 09:21
9 31:45 The ampcode.com copy 12:21
10 44:06 Sponsor: Retool 01:55
11 46:02 Believers and skeptics 13:01
12 59:03 The horse carriage 06:36
13 1:05:39 The Vim identity 05:08
14 1:10:47 Still well positioned 02:25
15 1:13:12 Use AI to think better 01:32
16 1:14:43 To the Vim folks 05:39
17 1:20:22 Paint by numbers programming 13:29
18 1:33:51 Open source impact 15:05
19 1:48:56 An optimistic prediction 01:52
20 1:50:48 Wrapping up 01:19
21 1:52:08 Closing thoughts 01:49

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