What Quinn Slack thinks about LLMs

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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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2 dated positions, 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Quinn Slack has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 16 Mar 2024

   Our readingThe best AI coding agent is the one with the best way to check its own code; given equal models, everything else is undifferentiated.

   Their wordsThe 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 AIslack.org 1st of 5 in this piece

3. 16 Mar 2024

   Our readingToday's best LLMs, with a good enough way to evaluate code, can automate coding far beyond what most people think possible.

   Their wordsI 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 AIslack.org 3rd of 5 in this piece