Pave The Road ampcode.com
Alex Kemper’s argument is that most companies are buying capable models and then running them over development processes built for a world where code was expensive and mistakes were slow to undo. His line for it:
After all, what good is it if the latest model completes a task in five minutes, but it takes another five days to get deployed?
The suggested shift is from preventing mistakes to making them cheap: isolation rather than permission, quick reversibility rather than careful review, parallelism rather than queues.
Amp offers its own numbers as evidence. In the month after shipping Orbs, their parallel cloud sandboxes, commit velocity rose 65% and more than 85% of commits started originating in sandboxes rather than local checkouts. One engineer shipped 23 changes during a three-hour livestream. Worth reading with the obvious caveat in mind: this is a coding agent vendor describing the benefits of its own product. See also What I Want to Tell You About Orbs for the same shift told from a single developer’s desk.