# Thorsten Ball

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365: Thorsten Ball on Building an Interpreter

Today's guest is Thorsten Ball, author of Writing an interpreter in Go as well as its sequel Writing a Compiler in Go. Thorsten lives near Frankfurt, Germany. Thorsten loves to deep dive into programming topics like programming languages, interpreters...

Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes

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: http... Full show notes and links

093: Agentic engineering is here to stay with Thorsten Ball

Hey Thorsten Ball joins us this week and we talk about Amp, agentic engineering, some ~philosophical debates, you know the usual stuff when software engineers talk about AI and LLM and how it's changing our world.

Agentic Coding Is Here! 10x Developer Explains how AI Writes ENTIRE Apps 😱

Reaction to David Ondrej's interview with 10x developer Thorsten Ball on "Agentic Engineering". AI is moving beyond simple code completion—autonomous AI agents are now taking over full software workflows, building applications, and redefining what it means to write code. In this reaction video, we …

Ep88: Generative AI & Graph + Iterative AI Development

Jennifer shares updates on her upcoming AI First Java book, fall event prep, and spring 2027 conference abstracts. Key topics this episode: GraphAcademy makeover. Neo4j's learning platform now features browser-based code environments, auto-generated API keys, AI-assisted data modeling, and publi…

How to Build a Coding Agent with Nico (Amp Code)

“It’s an LLM, a loop, and enough tokens.” —Nicolay Gerold, Amp Code So why does a coding agent forget your instructions, keep reading tiny pieces of a file, or struggle with an edit another model handles easily? Nicolay Gerold (Amp) joins Hugo to take that loop apart and explain the harness around …

Episode 592: Don't Think for Me

This week, we discuss Meta's Muse, who's spending $500 million on tokens, and why nobody can measure AI ROI. Plus, the case for importing NyQuil by the suitcase. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 592 Runner-up Titles You’re Mom’s not sending it via DHL. Hope you like your toast b…

Irrefutable proof w/ Thorsten Ball

Thorsten Ball, who works on Amp, doesn't like the term "software factory." He'd rather be in a workshop, a garden or a "primordial soup" of throwaway tools. He and Matt talk about custom tools you build in minutes and throw away, why the huge jumps in AI tooling make it hard to bring people along g…

Episode 593: Markdown for the Masses

This week, we discuss Google Docs finally getting Markdown, Cloudflare's CF CLI, Gartner's agentic AI abandonment stat, and forward deployed engineers. Plus, Coté forgets his laptop. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 593 Runner-up Titles: Cables only Blame it on AI We’re outcome…

Thorsten Ball (Amp): All the Models Want is Tokens and Tools

Ten years ago, Thorsten Ball (Co-founder, Amp) published Writing an Interpreter in Go, a book that shows how to type out every line. Now Amp has ripped out tab completion, because nobody types code anymore.Today, Hugo Santos (Founder, Namespace) sits down with Thorsten to discuss what it’s like bui…