What Thorsten Ball thinks about ambition
Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast. Wrote Writing an Interpreter in Go.
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2 dated positions, 2022 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Thorsten Ball has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingDon't wait for your agents; let them wait on you, with bigger, batched, asynchronous tasks.
Their wordsDon't wait for your agents. Let them wait on you. If you worry about TTFT, you're probably doing something wrong. Lean into async. Give them bigger tasks, be more ambitous. Batch instead of back and forth.
- 4 years earlier
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Their wordsEverything is the result of trade-offs. You will never reach 100% on every axis that you care about. Something has to give.
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