Public story · 2026-02-25 · source-backed
Thorsten Ball (Amp): "The Coding Agent Is Dead. The Text Editor Is Dead."
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Ball and the Amp team concluded that the coding agent and the text editor are both solved/dying. "What we have right now isn't the future." Software is disappearing into agents — Geoffrey Litt received a Claude-generated workout app, Ryan Florence discarded his workout app for ChatGPT voice mode. If you're building tools that require humans to sit in a text editor, Ball says you're building for a dying paradigm. (Register Spill J&C #75)
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