Thorsten Ball's newsletter: 8 parallel agents, Anthropic kills the coding interview
Register Spill (Thorsten Ball) · rss · 2026-11-01
Amp Labs' Thorsten Ball ships Joy & Curiosity #104: a new Raising An Agent episode on pushing to main without PRs; his experiment running 8 agents on one feature and how they blocked each other; Anthropic's Felix Rieseberg killing the traditional coding interview; a 5-person "most AI-pilled company" where engineers became paratroopers and a job called "entropy"; Proton's CEO memo on being stuck at phase-1 LLM adoption and ruthlessly eliminating bottlenecks; plus a raw inside account of the Salesforce-Slack acquisition and a chip-essay must-read.
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