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Irrefutable proof w/ Thorsten Ball

· 58 min · Season 3 Episode 4

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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 gradually, and which old coding rules still matter now that agents write the code. Along the way: a thumbnail picker, a Go interpreter made 16x faster, Dwarf Fortress's 2,000-line functions and whether Rails World is about to get strange.
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