Quinn Slack

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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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government 6

No stable, democratic arrangement can exist in which government controls access to AI; the more powerful AI is, the less stable regulating access becomes.
The government should not be allowed to prohibit people from downloading and running open AI models.

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Anthropic 2

Anthropic's lobbying for US government restrictions on frontier models created a dangerous, destabilizing mess.
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.

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LLMs 2

Today's best LLMs, with a good enough way to evaluate code, can automate coding far beyond what most people think possible.
The best AI coding agent is the one with the best way to check its own code; given equal models, everything else is undifferentiated.

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