Thorsten Ball
8 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 25, 2025 by Thorsten Ball · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Sep 25, 2025
Ball: The Sourcegraph Amp team does not use formal evals
“I think we don't have any set evals. We don't. And this was controversial up until a week ago, I think, when I think Boris from
Or two weeks ago from Anthropix that they don't have evals for the coding agent too.
But we don't, and we haven't had them.”
Sep 25, 2025 positive
Sep 25, 2025 negative
Ball: Coding agents should outsource typing, not engineering thinking
“The failure mode of outsourcing the thinking, but not the typing, which I think it should be the opposite. You still have to know engineering. You still have to know how to program. You still have to know your application and its architecture, how it's deploye…”
Sep 25, 2025 bullish
Ball: Web frameworks will integrate AI agents directly into the runtime
“What if the agent is integrated into the framework so that you can, if the application fails to run, you can ask the agent that has access to all of the context. And that's going to be more and more, I think like a lot of the, you know, developers will build s…”
Sep 25, 2025 bullish
Sep 25, 2025 bullish
Ball: Developers are actively modifying codebases to suit AI agents
“What we're seeing now with agents is as soon as somebody has seen what it can do, they have such a multiplying effect or this brings so much value that people are willing to adopt the code base for this. Like the first time in how many decades where people are…”
Sep 25, 2025 negative
Ball: Engineers lacking business and product taste will lose value
“Like as an engineer, you cannot see yourself as the person anymore who types out a spec or turns a product PRD into code. I think you need to be aware of business. You need to be aware of a product. You need to know and have some taste for software. Otherwise,…”
Sep 25, 2025 positive
Ball: Unify and make logs verbose for AI agents, not human readers
“Instead of having the client log and having the browser log and having the database log, let's have one unified log, because then it's easier for the agent to just look at this log and make sense of it. And then it turns out it doesn't have to be nicely format…”