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Agent, take the wheel (Changelog Interviews #648)
1 hour 53 minutes Posted Jul 2, 2025 at 5:30 pm.
This week on The Changelog
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How to build an agent
You felt the AGI?
Tool calling
A basic algorithm
Amp's angle
The ampcode.com copy
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Believers and skeptics
The horse carriage
The Vim identity
Still well positioned
Use AI to think better
To the Vim folks
Paint by numbers programming
Open source impact
An optimistic prediction
Wrapping up
Closing thoughts
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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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