Inside the Team That Killed Mandatory Code Review — Quinn Slack, AMP
Quinn Slack, co-founder of AMP and former CEO of Sourcegraph, joins swyx to discuss how AI agents have completely altered software engineering workflows. They examine the death of local development environments in favor of parallel cloud sandboxes, the elimination of mandatory code review and traditional CI/CD, and the emergence of lean, 20-person company structures powered by ad-hoc 'jellyware' software.
- Running coding agents directly on developer laptops exposes private environment variables, active shell credentials, and local keys to autonomous execution. Read →
- Local development environments restrict software engineering to a single sequential queue on one machine. Read →
- Quinn Slack argues that AI agents operating inside reproducible cloud sandboxes make traditional CI/CD pipelines and GitHub pull requests obsolete. Read →
- Quinn Slack, co-founder of AMP and former CEO of Sourcegraph, argues that AI agents make complex SaaS settings menus, data pipelines, and MCP connectors obsolete for internal tooling. Read →
- Quinn Slack eliminated mandatory pull request reviews before merging to main at AMP because human approval queues erase the speed gains of AI agents. Read →
- Quinn Slack split Sourcegraph into two separate entities, moving 20 people to AMP while leaving the remaining team on core code search. Read →