The Amp editor extension will soon self-destruct. The end of the sidebar is here. In this episode, Quinn and Thorsten discuss why they think the sidebar and working 1-on-1 with a single assistant isn't the future and how the need for constantly changing and rebuilding is the only way to survive when building developer tooling today. Timestamps: 01:00 Deep Mode 10:30 Optimizing the codebase for agents 15:00 Feature Preview: which Skills does your team use? 18:00 Balancing DX for humans & agents 21:35 Killing the Amp editor extension 28:00 The future of software and what it means 33:00 You need to stay agile 36:00 Pi & OpenClaw 39:00 Text editors holding companies back 44:00 Is manual context management coming to an end? 49:00 New concept for Threads 50:00 Amp, the business & the art installation
Staff engineer shows AI spec-driven development workflow
AI Skills with Matt Pocock
First impressions: Delta - Cameron's writing
A look at Zed's new agent development tool.
The Rise of Agent Experience (AX)
Digital Humans: Building an AI agent coworker
Joshua Gu on Twitter / X
Recent agentic systems (Claude Code, Codex, RLM, etc.) push context out of the prompt and into the environment (e.g., as files). This helps them maintain long-term knowledge about their goals and functionality.🚨 While this is a good idea, we show a surprising result: systems… pic.twitter.com/XHFVaDcr4l— Joshua Gu (@astrogu_) May 20, 2026
Agents Done Right: A Framework Vision for 2026
Agents choke on context, loop on failures, and dump walls of code for review. It's time to rethink the architecture.
Agents for the Agent
Amp now has new subagents and they're more powerful than ever. Is everything changing again?
New tools for building agents
Agents get budgets and boundaries - Sensemaker
Microsoft shipped more concrete agent controls while Uber put coding agents on a token budget. The agent story is becoming IT management, not demos.
Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world
By Ryan Lopopolo, Member of the Technical Staff
Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world
By Ryan Lopopolo, Member of the Technical Staff
🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog on Twitter / X
OPENAI 🚨: Early look at an upcoming Agent Studio for building and hosting configurable, always-on 24/7 agents on ChatGPT. The "Hermes" feature is tightly coupled with the existing Workflows builder on the OpenAI Platform, and you will also be able to open your Agents in the… https://t.co/7U4m2vNS3z pic.twitter.com/tfPIGdXRAs— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) April 21, 2026
