Amp(@AmpCode):"I'm just pointing at things and saying, make it like this and ship this and do this. The altitude is so high. It's wild. Even compared to two months ago." @thorstenball on using agents for the whole lifecycle of a feature: building, testing, shipping, monitoring the rollout, toggling feature flags, talking to users.

2026.09.12 14:55

"I'm just pointing at things and saying, make it like this and ship this and do this. The altitude is so high. It's wild. Even compared to two months ago." @thorstenball on using agents for the whole lifecycle of a feature: building, testing, shipping, monitoring the rollout, toggling feature flags, talking to users.

Amp@AmpCode

2026.09.11 17:02

What is the computer for now? In Raising an Agent S2E4, @sqs and @thorstenball explore how agents can do more than just ship code, discuss recent outages, and ask what happens to our computers when more work moves into Orbs. 00:00 Intro: What is the computer for now? 01:32 New models & aiming higher with agents 04:42 An agent's job after the code ships 10:19 Mini evals & keeping the team's context in threads 13:38 Performance testing & production canaries 18:36 Amp's recent outages & what went wrong 24:44 Shipping faster & the tradeoffs of redundancy 28:34 How fast can an engineering team go? 32:27 Making production logs & metrics useful to agents 37:15 Beyond local development 41:30 Agents building 3D models & virtual worlds 43:35 Simpler devices & dictating work on the go 47:29 What happens to the tools we love? 49:27 Steering, queuing & changing workflows