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Raising An Agent

Amp Inc

16 episodes · Explicit

A "diary of excitement" documenting the journey of building Amp.

Episodes

  1. The Company of the Future

    · 1 h 11 min · S2 E6 · Explicit

    Quinn and Thorsten sit down together in San Francisco to answer the question they get asked most: how does the Amp team work? They walk through a week at Amp, from Thorsten's Sunday post and the single Monday meeting…

  2. Stop Boxing In Your Agent

    · 56 min · S2 E5 · Explicit

    Quinn and Thorsten record a late-night Hot Take Thursday. They start with a company that capped each engineer at €50 of tokens a week, then talk about why cheap models end up costing more and why some people will be…

  3. What Is the Computer For Now?

    · 53 min · S2 E4

    Quinn and Thorsten discuss what they can hand off to agents now, from coordinating work across projects to following up with users after a fix ships. They explain how they test agent behavior and use production data to…

  4. When Tokens Flow Like Electricity

    · 48 min · S2 E3

    Quinn and Thorsten predict that intelligence will get cheap and tokens will be everywhere, then ask what that does to software. They debate build versus buy in the age of agents, why Orbs are worth paying for while…

  5. Orbs and Jellyware

    · 55 min · S2 E2

    This episode was recorded in person in Munich, where the whole Amp team had gathered for a week of building. Quinn and Thorsten discuss why isolated Orbs make it easier to run agents in parallel, how the team asks…

  6. Local Dev Doesn't Matter on the Frontier

    · 49 min · S2 E1

    In the first episode of season 2, Quinn and Thorsten discuss why the Amp team went heads-down the last few months to rebuild Amp around remote-controllable, parallel agents, running locally or in orbs. They also talk…

  7. Episode 10

    · 56 min · S1 E10

    Quinn and Thorsten announce that they will kill the Amp editor extension. It will self-destruct soon, because the time of the sidebar is over.

  8. Episode 9

    · 41 min · S1 E9

    Quinn and Thorsten are back! It's been a while since they published a Raising An Agent episode and in this this episode, they discuss how everything seems to have changed again with Gemini 3 and Opus 4.5 and what comes…

  9. Episode 8

    · 53 min · S1 E8

    In this episode of Raising an Agent, Beyang and Camden dive into how the Amp team evaluates models for agentic coding. They break down why tool calling is the key differentiator, what went wrong with Gemini Pro, and…

  10. Episode 7

    · 54 min · S1 E7

    In this episode, Beyang and Thorsten discuss strategies for effective agentic coding, including the 101 of how it's different from coding with chat LLMs, the key constraint of the context window, how and where…

  11. Episode 6

    · 35 min · S1 E6

    In this episode, Quinn and Thorsten discuss Claude 4, sub-agents, background agents, and they share "hot tips" for agentic coding.

  12. Episode 5

    · 1 h 06 min · S1 E5

    In this episode, Beyang interviews Thorsten and Quinn to unpack what has happened in the world of Amp in the last five weeks: how predictions played out, how working with agents shaped how they write code, how agents…

  13. Episode 4

    · 34 min · S1 E4

    Thorsten and Quinn talk about the future of programming and whether code will still be as valuable in the future, how maybe the GitHub contribution graph is already worthless, how LLMs can free us from the tyranny of…

  14. Episode 3

    · 37 min · S1 E3

    Quinn and Thorsten start by sharing how reviews are still very much needed when using AI to code and how it changes the overall flow you're in when coding with an agent. They also talk about a very important question…

  15. Episode 2

    · 29 min · S1 E2

    Thorsten and Quinn talk about how different agentic programming is from normal programming and how the mindset has to adapt to it. One thing they discuss is that having a higher-level architectural understanding is…

  16. Episode 1

    · 30 min · S1 E1

    In the first episode of Raising an Agent, Quinn and Thorsten kick things off by sharing a lot of wow-moments they experienced after getting the agent at the heart of Amp into a working state. They talk about how little…

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