Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast — Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes

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Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

Quinn Slack (CEO) and Thorsten Ball (Amp Dictator) from SourceGraph join the show to talk about Amp Code, how they ship 15x/day with no code reviews, and why subagents and prompt optimizers aren’t a promising direction for coding agents. Amp Code: https://ampcode.com/ Latent Space: https://latent.space/ Full Video…

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