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Amp is the coding agent and development environment that runs anywhere and everywhere.

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Amp @AmpCode 3d

People kept asking for an Amp Android app. One Friday night, @sqs had the agent build one without telling anyone on the team.

He put the APK behind a hidden URL, collected feedback, had the agent fix it. “And now, we've got an Android app that a lot of people love.”

0:59

Amp @AmpCode Oct 30

“How do you not ship slop if everybody can just push to main?”

@sqs and @thorstenball answer the replies to The Company of the Future, and explain how Culture Stops Slop.

00:00 Intro: Tough luck, get the tokens
01:08 The responses to The Company of the Future
02:06 Don't meet people where they are
03:45 Self-hosted Orbs: a big architecture change without an RFC
09:16 Adapters are cheap now: customers fill in the last 20%
12:51 "You're only 21 people" is the point
15:58 Do what gives you energy & Quinn's secret Android app
20:44 macOS Satellites & capital-A Agile
27:21 A feature's whole life in one thread
29:26 Culture stops slop
33:21 No PMs in the middle & adopting a customer
36:54 Avoiding the everything app & not hiring your way out
40:43 A shared sense of urgency & removing features
46:29 "Why believe you?" You've got it backwards
48:29 Unit tests vs proof: videos & screenshots
53:53 The real cost of code review
58:17 Get to the tokens

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Amp @AmpCode 3d

What if the agent makes an architectural mistake?

“Even if it does… are you stuck? Or is it now easier than ever to kind of undo these changes?” — @thorstenball

0:36

Amp @AmpCode Oct 30

“How do you not ship slop if everybody can just push to main?”

@sqs and @thorstenball answer the replies to The Company of the Future, and explain how Culture Stops Slop.

00:00 Intro: Tough luck, get the tokens
01:08 The responses to The Company of the Future
02:06 Don't meet people where they are
03:45 Self-hosted Orbs: a big architecture change without an RFC
09:16 Adapters are cheap now: customers fill in the last 20%
12:51 "You're only 21 people" is the point
15:58 Do what gives you energy & Quinn's secret Android app
20:44 macOS Satellites & capital-A Agile
27:21 A feature's whole life in one thread
29:26 Culture stops slop
33:21 No PMs in the middle & adopting a customer
36:54 Avoiding the everything app & not hiring your way out
40:43 A shared sense of urgency & removing features
46:29 "Why believe you?" You've got it backwards
48:29 Unit tests vs proof: videos & screenshots
53:53 The real cost of code review
58:17 Get to the tokens

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Amp @AmpCode 4d

No PR review, 1 meeting, anyone can push to main. @thorstenball asks: how do you avoid slop?

@sqs: skin in the game. “We have 21 co-founders at Amp… every single person is a public face.” And anyone can ask, “What the slop is that?”

0:47

Amp @AmpCode Oct 30

“How do you not ship slop if everybody can just push to main?”

@sqs and @thorstenball answer the replies to The Company of the Future, and explain how Culture Stops Slop.

00:00 Intro: Tough luck, get the tokens
01:08 The responses to The Company of the Future
02:06 Don't meet people where they are
03:45 Self-hosted Orbs: a big architecture change without an RFC
09:16 Adapters are cheap now: customers fill in the last 20%
12:51 "You're only 21 people" is the point
15:58 Do what gives you energy & Quinn's secret Android app
20:44 macOS Satellites & capital-A Agile
27:21 A feature's whole life in one thread
29:26 Culture stops slop
33:21 No PMs in the middle & adopting a customer
36:54 Avoiding the everything app & not hiring your way out
40:43 A shared sense of urgency & removing features
46:29 "Why believe you?" You've got it backwards
48:29 Unit tests vs proof: videos & screenshots
53:53 The real cost of code review
58:17 Get to the tokens

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Amp @AmpCode 4d

@thorstenball hears it all the time: “Of course, you work like this because you’re only 21 people.”

@sqs: “If you have a feature request or bug report and then it gets shipped in 30 minutes… I don’t think you care that we're 21 people.”

0:43

Amp @AmpCode Oct 30

“How do you not ship slop if everybody can just push to main?”

@sqs and @thorstenball answer the replies to The Company of the Future, and explain how Culture Stops Slop.

00:00 Intro: Tough luck, get the tokens
01:08 The responses to The Company of the Future
02:06 Don't meet people where they are
03:45 Self-hosted Orbs: a big architecture change without an RFC
09:16 Adapters are cheap now: customers fill in the last 20%
12:51 "You're only 21 people" is the point
15:58 Do what gives you energy & Quinn's secret Android app
20:44 macOS Satellites & capital-A Agile
27:21 A feature's whole life in one thread
29:26 Culture stops slop
33:21 No PMs in the middle & adopting a customer
36:54 Avoiding the everything app & not hiring your way out
40:43 A shared sense of urgency & removing features
46:29 "Why believe you?" You've got it backwards
48:29 Unit tests vs proof: videos & screenshots
53:53 The real cost of code review
58:17 Get to the tokens

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Amp @AmpCode 5d

“I haven’t looked at a unit test in a while.”

@thorstenball trusts the model and checks the proof instead. He knows it’s “the dumbest possible answer to give somebody who calls themselves an engineer.”

@sqs: “I think it’s just been upleveled.”

2:48

Amp @AmpCode Oct 30

“How do you not ship slop if everybody can just push to main?”

@sqs and @thorstenball answer the replies to The Company of the Future, and explain how Culture Stops Slop.

00:00 Intro: Tough luck, get the tokens
01:08 The responses to The Company of the Future
02:06 Don't meet people where they are
03:45 Self-hosted Orbs: a big architecture change without an RFC
09:16 Adapters are cheap now: customers fill in the last 20%
12:51 "You're only 21 people" is the point
15:58 Do what gives you energy & Quinn's secret Android app
20:44 macOS Satellites & capital-A Agile
27:21 A feature's whole life in one thread
29:26 Culture stops slop
33:21 No PMs in the middle & adopting a customer
36:54 Avoiding the everything app & not hiring your way out
40:43 A shared sense of urgency & removing features
46:29 "Why believe you?" You've got it backwards
48:29 Unit tests vs proof: videos & screenshots
53:53 The real cost of code review
58:17 Get to the tokens

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