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Quinn Slack

Former CEO & Co-Founder, Sourcegraph

Search every verified Quinn Slack interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Quinn Slack, former CEO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, has recently appeared at industry events to discuss his work as CEO of Amp, a coding agent company. In an October 2026 talk at Paradigm Frontiers, he described how his 21-person team builds Amp using its own agent, stating that the company ships about 90 times a day without pull requests or code review and operates without a roadmap. He outlined practices such as giving agents long leashes, requesting menus of options rather than iterating, demanding irrefutable proof, running mini evals, dictating instructions, and using only the latest models. He also discussed using feature flags for agent-run rollouts and replacing the pull request with an agent thread. In a September 2026 interview, Slack elaborated on Amp's remote work structure, noting that the team is split across Europe, the US, and Australia, and that the company holds offsites instead of maintaining an office. He said the team rarely uses GitHub, relying instead on ad hoc repositories hosted by Amp, and that they do not use issues or pull requests. He described mandatory code review as "dead" and argued that AI enables a more trusted team with greater end-to-end ownership. He also expressed a view that software development for other software companies is a declining historical aberration, suggesting that skilled people will increasingly work in other sectors.

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Notable quotes

“We do not do any code review. We've never done any code review. We think it's the dumbest thing ever. And the one thing I disagree with is he showed that big exponential about PRs going up. I actually think that they're about to go way down because pull requests slow you down. I mean, we are shipping 90 times a day and when we push something, it takes seven minutes to get to production to all of our users. We don't d”

“Mandatory code review before it gets to main. Yeah, it's dead. It's been dead ever since we started working on AMP. The most important system is having a team that is really trusted and you know some of what AI does is it means that you can have a team of people that are more trusted that have more skin in the game that have more ownership end to end. They're not automatons that are taking input from a product manage”

“Sourcegraph solves this problem when an organization has so much code — old code, code that nobody understands — and yet they still need to be making new things. We've gotten many of the biggest banks in the US, the biggest technology companies, and now through Leidos some incredible missions in government and beyond.”

“With an agent you can automate business problems like coming into compliance with the EU Digital Markets Act, which might require 10,000 code changes. If that prevents $150 million in fines and an agent automates 95% of the work, that agent is worth that savings.”

“We want to eliminate code review comments — every code review comment is a failure in our process. It's not the developer's fault; the system should be designed so they wouldn't make that mistake in the future.”

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