After an incident, finding every affected user and emailing them used to be a day of scripts and log searches.
Now you ask Amp. @thorstenball: “with agents, you can do stuff that was previously unreasonable.”
Now you ask Amp. @thorstenball: “with agents, you can do stuff that was previously unreasonable.”
21 people, a single meeting a week, no quarterly goals, no pull requests, no mandatory code review, no titles (except one dictator), a hundred releases a day, bugs fixed in minutes, famous for killing features.
@sqs and @thorstenball on how the Amp team works:
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“We don't have quarterly goals. We don't have annual goals.”
The closest thing Amp has to a roadmap is February's “The Coding Agent Is Dead”. @thorstenball: “that was like maybe a roadmap for the year, but it wasn’t prompted by a fiscal quarter.”
The closest thing Amp has to a roadmap is February's “The Coding Agent Is Dead”. @thorstenball: “that was like maybe a roadmap for the year, but it wasn’t prompted by a fiscal quarter.”
21 people, a single meeting a week, no quarterly goals, no pull requests, no mandatory code review, no titles (except one dictator), a hundred releases a day, bugs fixed in minutes, famous for killing features.
@sqs and @thorstenball on how the Amp team works:
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“You don't need the people that are just turning their brains off asking for sizing points in a Jira ticket.”
@sqs and @thorstenball on what changes when hiring isn’t the answer to every problem.
@sqs and @thorstenball on what changes when hiring isn’t the answer to every problem.
21 people, a single meeting a week, no quarterly goals, no pull requests, no mandatory code review, no titles (except one dictator), a hundred releases a day, bugs fixed in minutes, famous for killing features.
@sqs and @thorstenball on how the Amp team works:
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Amp retweeted
Amp now supports BYOK through Microsoft Foundry, formerly known as Azure AI Foundry, formerly known as Azure AI Studio.
Set it up at ampcode.com/settings/model….
Set it up at ampcode.com/settings/model….
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A thumbs-up on a PR is an alibi: “I'm not really sure, but hey, I got thumbs up from the designer and from two engineers.”
@thorstenball on taking the training wheels off: “if you ship this, it’s live. You can ask for help, but it’s on you.”
@thorstenball on taking the training wheels off: “if you ship this, it’s live. You can ask for help, but it’s on you.”
21 people, a single meeting a week, no quarterly goals, no pull requests, no mandatory code review, no titles (except one dictator), a hundred releases a day, bugs fixed in minutes, famous for killing features.
@sqs and @thorstenball on how the Amp team works:
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Too much love for orbs!
Our database is under heavy load, which is why ampcode.com right now feels very slow or there can be connection issues.
We're on it and investigating.
ampcodestatus.com
Our database is under heavy load, which is why ampcode.com right now feels very slow or there can be connection issues.
We're on it and investigating.
ampcodestatus.com
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How do you review code at Amp? Ask the agent first.
“Give me irrefutable proof that this works end-to-end.” — @thorstenball
“Give me irrefutable proof that this works end-to-end.” — @thorstenball
21 people, a single meeting a week, no quarterly goals, no pull requests, no mandatory code review, no titles (except one dictator), a hundred releases a day, bugs fixed in minutes, famous for killing features.
@sqs and @thorstenball on how the Amp team works:
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Think you get it, but you’re at a 200+ person company where most people don’t?
@thorstenball and @sqs’s advice: “Kill the gossip channel.”
@thorstenball and @sqs’s advice: “Kill the gossip channel.”
21 people, a single meeting a week, no quarterly goals, no pull requests, no mandatory code review, no titles (except one dictator), a hundred releases a day, bugs fixed in minutes, famous for killing features.
@sqs and @thorstenball on how the Amp team works:
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We're experiencing infrastructure issues.
Investigating.
You can see the current status here: ampcodestatus.com
Investigating.
You can see the current status here: ampcodestatus.com
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Amp is built by a team of 21, with revenue the size of competitors that have 30, 40 or 50 times the staff.
“This is what a lot of other companies in the future will look like.” — @sqs
“This is what a lot of other companies in the future will look like.” — @sqs
21 people, a single meeting a week, no quarterly goals, no pull requests, no mandatory code review, no titles (except one dictator), a hundred releases a day, bugs fixed in minutes, famous for killing features.
@sqs and @thorstenball on how the Amp team works:
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“But the code review process is what creates the risk.”
@thorstenball and @sqs on 4,000-line PRs on a Friday, branches nobody remembers, and what continuous integration actually means.
@thorstenball and @sqs on 4,000-line PRs on a Friday, branches nobody remembers, and what continuous integration actually means.
21 people, a single meeting a week, no quarterly goals, no pull requests, no mandatory code review, no titles (except one dictator), a hundred releases a day, bugs fixed in minutes, famous for killing features.
@sqs and @thorstenball on how the Amp team works:
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On graduation day, a Navy aircraft mechanic checks the jet alone. No senior mechanic. Not even the pilot.
@sqs on why skin in the game makes people better, and what that means for code review.
@sqs on why skin in the game makes people better, and what that means for code review.
21 people, a single meeting a week, no quarterly goals, no pull requests, no mandatory code review, no titles (except one dictator), a hundred releases a day, bugs fixed in minutes, famous for killing features.
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“You defined those teams based on the capabilities of humans in 2019.”
When agents let every engineer reach 10× further, the old team boundaries start to collide. @thorstenball and @sqs on bigger fish in the same pond.
When agents let every engineer reach 10× further, the old team boundaries start to collide. @thorstenball and @sqs on bigger fish in the same pond.
21 people, a single meeting a week, no quarterly goals, no pull requests, no mandatory code review, no titles (except one dictator), a hundred releases a day, bugs fixed in minutes, famous for killing features.
@sqs and @thorstenball on how the Amp team works:
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21 people, a single meeting a week, no quarterly goals, no pull requests, no mandatory code review, no titles (except one dictator), a hundred releases a day, bugs fixed in minutes, famous for killing features.
@sqs and @thorstenball on how the Amp team works:
@sqs and @thorstenball on how the Amp team works:
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You can also watch it on YouTube: youtu.be/deiLxNZH_DM
Or listen to it on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1AL44JiuD…
If you want to listen to all of them: ampcode.com/podcast
Or listen to it on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1AL44JiuD…
If you want to listen to all of them: ampcode.com/podcast
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