Host Thorsten challenges listeners to stop limiting their AI agents' capabilities, revealing how they now manage production and why outdated processes hinder progress in this interview.
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
What Is the Computer For Now?
Host Quinn and guest Thorsten explore how AI agents now handle project coordination and user follow-ups, discussing testing, reliability improvements, and the evolving role of the personal computer.
27 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
When Tokens Flow Like Electricity
Host Quinn and guest Thorsten discuss the future of AI agents, debating build versus buy and the implications of ubiquitous tokens for software development.
12 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Orbs and Jellyware
Host Quinn and guest Thorsten discuss how isolated Orbs and malleable Jellyware software accelerate agent development and improve production feedback loops.
17 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Local Dev Doesn't Matter on the Frontier
Host Quinn and guest Thorsten discuss Amp's shift to remote-controllable agents and its impact on local development workflows.
5 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 10
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.
22 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 9
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 after — the assistant is dead, long live the factory.
21 Aug 2025
Episode 8
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 why open models like K2 and Qwen are promising but not ready as main drivers. They share first impressions of GPT-5, explore the idea of alloying models, and explain why qualitative "vibe checks" often matter more than benchmarks. If you want to understand how Amp thinks about model selection, subagents, and the future of coding with agents, this episode has you covered.
22 Jul 2025
Episode 7
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 subagents can help, and the new oracle subagent which combines multiple LLMs.
00:53 Intros
03:35 How coding with agents is very different from coding with prior AI tools that use chat LLMs
10:46 Example of an agentic coding run to fix a simple issue
14:28 Example of debugging an issue with an MCP server
22:05 Example of unifying two build scripts that share logic
25:24 How context window size has emerged as a key constraint on agentic automation
31:16 Why it's best to focus on one thing at a time per agentic thread
33:24 Subagents and how they help extend the effective context window
34:04 The Amp codebase search subagent
38:48 General-purpose subagents
44:20 When to use subagents
47:04 The oracle subagent and o3
51:47 Multi-model agents and using the best model for each job
29 May 2025
Episode 6
In this episode, Quinn and Thorsten discuss Claude 4, sub-agents, background agents, and they share "hot tips" for agentic coding.
13 May 2025
Episode 5
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 are and will influence model development, and, of course, all the things that have been shipped in Amp.
22 Apr 2025
Episode 4
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 input boxes, and how conversations with an agent might be a better record of how a code change came to be than git commit tools. They also share where it works and simply doesn't work.
22 Apr 2025
Episode 3
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 they face: how important is code search, in its current form, in the age of AI agents?
22 Apr 2025
Episode 2
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 still very important, so that the agent can fill in the blanks. They also talk about how, surprisingly, the models are really, really good when they have inputs that a human would normally get. Most importantly, they share the realization that subscription-based pricing might make bad agentic products.
22 Apr 2025
Episode 1
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 is actually needed to create an agent and how magical the results are when you give a model the right tools, unlimited tokens, and feedback. That might be the biggest surprise: how many previous assumptions feel outdated when you see an agent explore a codebase on its own.
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Stop Boxing In Your Agent
Published 25 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And I think he was working with them. He had to get like a new deployment setup or something like this. And he had to get permission in like one system to get access to that system. He had to ask for more permission to get access to this. He had to find the right department. And it was like a Kafkaesque adventure of like getting a new deployment setup. And he said, and then people wonder why AI doesn't increase the GDP, you know? The bottom line being if you now have like these 10x multipliers, but what are you going to multiply if you're boxed in and you need to ask for permission all the time? […]
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