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Thorsten Ball

What Thorsten Ball thinks about coding agents

@thorsten-ball · 45 positions · 0 changes of mind

Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast. Wrote Writing an Interpreter in Go.

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5 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Thorsten Ball has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingAn entity that can write a 1000-line program without any mistakes or compile errors may not need the same crutches human programmers do.

    Their wordsif an entity can write a 1000 line program without ANY mistake and any compile error -- do you really think it needs the exact same crutches we do?

    ↗@thorstenball on Xx.com

  2. 1 day earlier

  3. Our readingAnyone who believes agents no longer need Rust because they handle memory allocation well must also believe aspects of testing become useless.

    Their wordsIf you believe that Rust isn't needed for agents anymore because they're good at mem alloc then you also have to believe aspects of testing become useless.

    ↗@thorstenball on Xx.com

  4. 9 days earlier

  5. Our readingGrowing conviction that people who do best with AI agents are those good at shipping things in small pieces.

    AI agents

    Their wordsIncreasingly convinced: people who do best with agents are those that are good at shipping things in small pieces

    ↗@thorstenball on Xx.com

  7. Our readingAI models are now much more than text-to-code converters.

    Their wordsThese models are so much more now than text-to-code converters.

    ↗@thorstenball on Xx.com

  8. 5 days earlier

  9. Our readingEngineers who act as meat proxies shoving tickets into agents and reporting back to humans will no longer be valuable.

    Their words“Engineers” who act as “meat proxies” and shove tickets into agents and report back to humans will no longer be valuable.

    ↗What I believe about the future of software developmentthorstenball.com 9th of 15 in this piece