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Quinn Slack

Co-founder and chief executive of Amp, the AI coding-agent company spun out of Sourcegraph in December 2025, and Sourcegraph's CEO until then; writes about code search, AI coding agents and how large codebases get understood.

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29 June

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From one piece Freedom of Intelligence 7 beliefs · slack.org

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8 November 2025

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16 March 2024

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From one piece Context-first approach to code AI 5 beliefs · slack.org

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    American Prometheus

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    American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer: An example of a great leader who had minimal leadership experience but did have deep technical expertise (and the respect of his peers).

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20 December 2021

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    Confessions of a Recovering Engineer

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    Confessions of a Recovering [Civil/Traffic] Engineer: After reading this book, every time I get to a traffic signal, I wonder if it could be a roundabout (or what would need to change so it could be a roundabout).

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15 July 2021

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    Plane Crash: The Forensics of Aviation Disasters

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    This book had great explanations of the physics of flight and helped me build intuition for doing mental math on lift, drag, etc. It has deeper explanations of aviation disasters and near-disasters than I’ve been able to find elsewhere

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    The Years of Lyndon Johnson

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    Caro sets the context for the various stages of and places in LBJ’s life so well that I have a better understanding of how it would have felt to live through those times.

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18 November 2013

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  • Korrents What they believe 13 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.

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    • People need freedom of intelligence: freedom from government restrictions on who can use which AI models.
      We need to fight for our freedom of intelligence, the freedom from government restrictions on who can use which AI models. If we allow government to decide what level of intelligence someone can access, no matter how well intended, we’ll be less safe and forever divided.

      Freedom of Intelligence Said 29 Jun 2026

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    • Governments must not require licensing of AI model labs or approval of models before release.
      This means that the government must not require licensing of model labs, or approval of models prior to release. Otherwise government inevitably will use that power to restrict releases to certain favored individuals and companies (as we’ve just seen) and to introduce biases.

      Freedom of Intelligence Said 29 Jun 2026

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    • The government should not be allowed to prohibit people from downloading and running open AI models.
      Freedom of intelligence also means that the government may not prohibit you from downloading and running open models.

      Freedom of Intelligence Said 29 Jun 2026

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    • An AI lab may release a model to only a few, or keep it internal, and the government must not force it to release one.
      The government must not force a model lab to release a model against its wishes. If a model lab chooses to release their own model to only a few privileged people and companies (as Anthropic did with Mythos), or to keep it internal, that is their right.

      Freedom of Intelligence Said 29 Jun 2026

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      Anthropicgovernment

    • Anthropic's lobbying for US government restrictions on frontier models created a dangerous, destabilizing mess.
      Anthropic has created a dangerous, destabilizing mess by lobbying for and getting US government restrictions on models like Mythos, Fable, and GPT-5.6.

      Freedom of Intelligence Said 29 Jun 2026

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      AnthropicOpenAIgovernment

    • No stable, democratic arrangement can exist in which government controls access to AI; the more powerful AI is, the less stable regulating access becomes.
      There’s no way to sustain a stable, democratic arrangement where government controls access to intelligence. The more powerful you think AI is, the less stable is any attempt to regulate access to intelligence.

      Freedom of Intelligence Said 29 Jun 2026

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    • Like speech, AI is powerful and sometimes dangerous, but giving someone the power to decide which AI everyone else may use is more dangerous.
      I favor freedom of intelligence for the same reasons. Like speech, AI is powerful and sometimes dangerous. But it’s far more dangerous and unstable to give someone the power to decide what intelligence everyone else can use.

      Freedom of Intelligence Said 29 Jun 2026

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    • The best AI coding agent is the one with the best way to check its own code; given equal models, everything else is undifferentiated.
      The best AI dev is the one with the best ƒ(code), assuming equal access to equally capable, cheap, and fast LLMs. Everything else about an AI dev is undifferentiated.

      Context-first approach to code AI Said 16 Mar 2024

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      LLMs

    • Human code review and slow CI will become obsolete once AI developers can check code better than most humans.
      Human code review and slow CI will start becoming obsolete/irrelevant in a world with AI devs with better-than-~80%ile-human ƒ(code)s.

      Context-first approach to code AI Said 16 Mar 2024

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    • Today's best LLMs, with a good enough way to evaluate code, can automate coding far beyond what most people think possible.
      I believe today’s SOTA LLMs, used by an AI dev with an ƒ(code) that is feasible to build today (but well beyond what anyone has actually built yet), are sufficiently capable to automate coding way beyond what most people think possible.

      Context-first approach to code AI Said 16 Mar 2024

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      LLMs

    • Context is the most important part of an AI coding agent.
      And since the best AI dev is the one with the best ƒ(code), and the best ƒ(code) comes from having the most comprehensive context and using it smartly, that means that context is the most important part of an AI dev.

      Context-first approach to code AI Said 16 Mar 2024

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    • A coding AI that integrates only with its own vendor's tools will be very limited compared with one that draws on all the tools you use.
      Any AI built by a vendor that only integrates with that vendor’s own tools will be very limited compared to one that can slurp up info from all the tools you use.

      Context-first approach to code AI Said 16 Mar 2024

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    • A startup idea that 90% of people like is probably not ambitious enough; aim for one many people reject for the same reason.
      But if you calibrate your idea so that 90% of people like it, it’s probably insufficiently ambitious—and you are overvaluing feedback and neglecting faith. You should be aiming for an idea that a lot of people reject for the same reason, and you should have faith in your ability to overcome that specific issue better than anybody else.

      Feedback vs. faith Said 18 Nov 2013

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      startups

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