Raising An Agent

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• Stop Boxing In Your Agent

  September 25, 2026 · 56 min

  Quinn and Thorsten record a late-night Hot Take Thursday. They start with a company that capped each engineer at €50 of tokens a week, then talk about why cheap models end up costing more and why some people will be priced out of frontier…

• What Is the Computer For Now?

  September 11, 2026 · 53 min

  Quinn and Thorsten discuss what they can hand off to agents now, from coordinating work across projects to following up with users after a fix ships. They explain how they test agent behavior and use production data to improve performance…

• When Tokens Flow Like Electricity

  August 27, 2026 · 48 min

  Quinn and Thorsten predict that intelligence will get cheap and tokens will be everywhere, then ask what that does to software. They debate build versus buy in the age of agents, why Orbs are worth paying for while Thorsten one-shot a bug…

• Orbs and Jellyware

  August 12, 2026 · 55 min

  This episode was recorded in person in Munich, where the whole Amp team had gathered for a week of building. Quinn and Thorsten discuss why isolated Orbs make it easier to run agents in parallel, how the team asks agents for exhaustive…

• Local Dev Doesn't Matter on the Frontier

  July 17, 2026 · 49 min

  In the first episode of season 2, Quinn and Thorsten discuss why the Amp team went heads-down the last few months to rebuild Amp around remote-controllable, parallel agents, running locally or in orbs. They also talk about how this…

• Episode 10

  February 5, 2026 · 56 min

  Quinn and Thorsten announce that they will kill the Amp editor extension. It will self-destruct soon, because the time of the sidebar is over.

• Episode 9

  January 22, 2026 · 41 min

  Quinn and Thorsten are back! It's been a while since they published a Raising An Agent episode and in this this episode, they discuss how everything seems to have changed again with Gemini 3 and Opus 4.5 and what comes after — the…

• Episode 8

  August 21, 2025 · 53 min

  In this episode of Raising an Agent, Beyang and Camden dive into how the Amp team evaluates models for agentic coding. They break down why tool calling is the key differentiator, what went wrong with Gemini Pro, and why open models like K2…