What Thorsten Ball thinks about documentation
Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast. Wrote Writing an Interpreter in Go.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Thorsten Ball has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsKnowledge piles up in the codebase: AGENTS.md files, skills, scripts, docs. But do agents actually use it? Spawn five blind agents, control vs. treatment, and find out. Agents are really, really good at running experiments.