Thorsten Ball
Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
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- Most predictions I see are still way too conservative. Here's mine 19 Sept 2026
- Jev turning the Amp Dial based on your prompt. 19 Sept 2026
- Jev predicting which line to jump to after an edit 19 Sept 2026
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- Never bet against orbs. It's happening. 18 Sept 2026
- Someone built a load-balancer with Jev yet? If speed requirements aren't that strict, I bet it could beat some heuristics. 18 Sept 2026
- Create new dirs and projects on the runner, right from the picker. Any interest in that? 18 Sept 2026
- Delicious meta thought from this morning: The table pounding from the AI-skeptical software engineers, shouting "they can't build proper, scalable, performant programs!", sounds especially thin when you consider that right now nearly everyone is looking for where this is going and no one knows yet. Building something "proper" and "scalable" and "performant" before you have PMF is a tricky thing to pull off (there's exceptions, of course, where PMF comes from being one of the three) and now it seems like most companies are looking for PMF every 3 months. 18 Sept 2026
- Two small additions today, added to news post: • --discover-dirs can be repeated, and can take a path • --discover-depth determines depth of search 18 Sept 2026
- Jev picking the next command from shell history 18 Sept 2026
- Time to leave one `amp --no-tui` running on your Mac mini and forget about it. It now serves every repo on the machine, and keeps itself updated. 17 Sept 2026
- Things I never would've shipped without agents, #712: Hand-drawn, glowing orb. 17 Sept 2026
- Very impressed by the TypeSafe/Jev onboarding. They knew they needed to overcome the question of "wait, so it's not an LLM?" and then threw everything at it. Really good. 17 Sept 2026
- btw. we're asking no one to give up anything. 17 Sept 2026
- I was trying to see if I could find one of my earliest uses of MrNugget but sadly this archive doesn't show the usernames: https://t.co/GoPnLfieUP Introduction to GNU screen, 22 years ago. Multiplexin' for two decades, brother. 16 Sept 2026
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Korrents What they believe 15 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.
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AI models considered smart today will be considered very dumb in the future, and smarter models make fewer mistakes and need fewer turns.
And what we consider a smart model today will be considered very dumb in the future. But a smarter model makes less mistakes, needs fewer turns.
What I believe about the future of software development Said 19 Sept 2026
Most software bugs will not be coding bugs but bugs from asking for the wrong thing.
Most bugs won't be "coding" bugs. They'll be "you asked for the wrong thing" bugs.
What I believe about the future of software development Said 19 Sept 2026
The craft of writing code will disappear, while the craft of building software becomes more important than ever.
The craft of writing code will disappear. Yes, there are still Italian shoe makers around. But look at your feet. The craft of building software will be more important than ever.
What I believe about the future of software development Said 19 Sept 2026
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There is no proof good code will matter in the future, since the notion is based on human ease of use and humans will not modify most code.
There's no proof that "good code" will matter in the future. The notion of "good code" itself is mostly based on the idea that it's easy/cheap/efficient for humans to work with. But humans won't modify the majority of code.
What I believe about the future of software development Said 19 Sept 2026
The difference between software engineering at large corporations and small ones will increase, and startups adopting Google practices will look sillier as they can build faster with fewer constraints.
The difference between software engineering at large corporations and small ones will increase. Start-ups adopting practices of Google will look even sillier than before, because they can now build so much faster and with so much less constraints.
What I believe about the future of software development Said 19 Sept 2026
Much UI exists because software cannot understand user intent and serves as a human API to dumb machines, so smarter machines need far less UI.
A lot of UI exists because software can't understand what you want. Menus, settings screens, dashboards, filters: much of it is a human-accessible API to a dumb machine. Smart machines need much less UI.
What I believe about the future of software development Said 19 Sept 2026
Performance-critical human contributions will remain an edge case, and in 99% of software a faster algorithm or better data structure does not matter.
Performance critical contributions by humans will stay what they are: an edge case. In 99% of software it does not matter that you could've written a faster algorithm or picked a better data structure.
What I believe about the future of software development Said 19 Sept 2026
It will take a generation for new software to replace old software, and people will still be employed writing code in 10 years.
It'll take a generation for the "new software" to replace the "old software". Just like there are people happily employed as ASP developers today, there will be people employed to write code in 10 years.
What I believe about the future of software development Said 19 Sept 2026
Some people will be priced out of producing software for the next few years if they cannot get enough tokens, putting them in a second league.
Yes. Some people will be priced out of producing software. Just like only some people could afford a personal computer in the 80s and 90s, for the next few years, if you can't get enough tokens, you're playing second league.
What I believe about the future of software development Said 19 Sept 2026
In the future, humans will not find bugs in model-produced code in reasonable time and will only review system composition, not via PRs or line-by-line review.
in the future, humans won't find a bug or an issue with the code produced by a model, at least not in a reasonable time. Humans will only review the system and its composition, but it won't be in PRs and it won't be by looking through every line of the code.
What I believe about the future of software development Said 19 Sept 2026
Tokens are the new computing paradigm on which everything will be remade as computing enters a post-binary era.
Tokens are the new computing paradigm. Everything will be re-made on top of it. We've had deterministic computers for 80 years, so we confuse "how computers have worked" with "how computers must work." We're entering the post-binary era.
What I believe about the future of software development Said 19 Sept 2026
The terminal is dead; most developer tooling including shells, text editors and CLIs will be washed away by tokens and no longer used by humans.
The terminal is dead. Most developer tooling will be washed away by tokens. Shells, text editors, CLI tools won't be used by humans anymore. There's no need to know command line flags and jq invocations anymore.
What I believe about the future of software development Said 19 Sept 2026
Open source in its current form no longer makes sense because artificial eyeballs now fulfill the "enough eyeballs" principle for finding bugs.
Open source in it's current form doesn't make sense anymore. "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" is still true but now we have artificial eyeballs.
What I believe about the future of software development Said 19 Sept 2026
The PM/Design/Eng triad will disappear as senseless, and Agile and SCRUM are dead.
The triad of PM/Design/Eng will disappear. It does not make any bit of sense anymore. Agile, SCRUM, whatever -- dead.
What I believe about the future of software development Said 19 Sept 2026
Engineers who act as meat proxies shoving tickets into agents and reporting back to humans will no longer be valuable.
"Engineers" who act as "meat proxies" and shove tickets into agents and report back to humans will no longer be valuable.
What I believe about the future of software development Said 19 Sept 2026
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19 September
From one piece What I believe about the future of software development 15 beliefs · x.com
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Their words
"Engineers" who act as "meat proxies" and shove tickets into agents and report back to humans will no longer be valuable.
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Their words
The triad of PM/Design/Eng will disappear. It does not make any bit of sense anymore. Agile, SCRUM, whatever -- dead.
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Their words
Open source in it's current form doesn't make sense anymore. "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" is still true but now we have artificial eyeballs.
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Their words
The terminal is dead. Most developer tooling will be washed away by tokens. Shells, text editors, CLI tools won't be used by humans anymore. There's no need to know command line flags and jq invocations anymore.
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korrents.com
Tokens are the new computing paradigm on which everything will be remade as computing enters a post-binary era.Their words
Tokens are the new computing paradigm. Everything will be re-made on top of it. We've had deterministic computers for 80 years, so we confuse "how computers have worked" with "how computers must work." We're entering the post-binary era.
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Their words
in the future, humans won't find a bug or an issue with the code produced by a model, at least not in a reasonable time. Humans will only review the system and its composition, but it won't be in PRs and it won't be by looking through every line of the code.
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Their words
Yes. Some people will be priced out of producing software. Just like only some people could afford a personal computer in the 80s and 90s, for the next few years, if you can't get enough tokens, you're playing second league.
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Their words
It'll take a generation for the "new software" to replace the "old software". Just like there are people happily employed as ASP developers today, there will be people employed to write code in 10 years.
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Their words
Performance critical contributions by humans will stay what they are: an edge case. In 99% of software it does not matter that you could've written a faster algorithm or picked a better data structure.
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Their words
A lot of UI exists because software can't understand what you want. Menus, settings screens, dashboards, filters: much of it is a human-accessible API to a dumb machine. Smart machines need much less UI.
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Their words
The difference between software engineering at large corporations and small ones will increase. Start-ups adopting practices of Google will look even sillier than before, because they can now build so much faster and with so much less constraints.
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Their words
There's no proof that "good code" will matter in the future. The notion of "good code" itself is mostly based on the idea that it's easy/cheap/efficient for humans to work with. But humans won't modify the majority of code.
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korrents.com
The craft of writing code will disappear, while the craft of building software becomes more important than ever.Their words
The craft of writing code will disappear. Yes, there are still Italian shoe makers around. But look at your feet. The craft of building software will be more important than ever.
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Their words
Most bugs won't be "coding" bugs. They'll be "you asked for the wrong thing" bugs.
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Their words
And what we consider a smart model today will be considered very dumb in the future. But a smarter model makes less mistakes, needs fewer turns.
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