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Jul 19, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

One Year After “The Emperor Has No Clothes”: Thorsten Ball on Agentic Programming

In a deep dive interview, Thorsten Ball explains how a minimal set of tools lets large language models act as code agents, why Amp removes every non‑essential feature, how Agents & Orbs shift the development lifecycle to transient cloud machines, and what this means for engineers, industry competition and compute scarcity.