Thorsten Ball's Register Spill: 'A Lot of Code Will Be Written While Nobody Is Watching'
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In his latest Joy & Curiosity issue, Sourcegraph/Amp engineer Thorsten Ball argues the near future is agents running longer and everywhere — kicked off from anywhere, with code increasingly written unattended. He points to Google's new gws ('CLI for all of Google Workspace — built for humans and AI agents') and Simon Willison's growing 'Agentic Engineering Patterns' project as concrete signals of the shift. Single-source builder commentary, but a sharp read on where agentic dev workflows are heading.