Quinn Slack explains how Amp runs an AI-native company with 21 employees
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-11-13
Sourcegraph/Amp founder Quinn Slack shared at AI Engineer Code Summit how his 21-person company rebuilt itself around AI agents after a legal spinoff blocked hiring for nearly a year. Key points: one meeting per week with 'follow your energy' as guidance; no PMs, no Jira, no traditional support — everything happens in agent threads and everyone talks to customers; a two-year-tenured SDR built an ACH payment system himself; tiny constant ships where agents add logging, deploy and monitor; support turned into an engineering superpower (agents fix bugs, find affected users in logs, proactively send apologies and credits); building your own software instead of paying for Salesforce's unused 98%; and shared ownership so everyone thinks like an owner. His thesis: AI's biggest change isn't how we write code, it's how we organize people.
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