Thorsten Ball
Every AI Coding Weekly story that cites Thorsten Ball (@thorstenball), newest first. 5 stories since September 2026.
On X: Working on @ampcode. Writing https://t.co/0SZD6dbLes. Once authored https://t.co/arW0hnVET0 and https://t.co/RN9xXOzhON.
- Ball one-shots 1,780 error-free lines, then aims at 8,000
Thorsten Ball is building a language called Brezel in single agent attempts and posting the line counts.
- Thorsten Ball says agents don't need unit tests like we do
An argument about whether tests are a specification or a ladder for human short term memory.
- Claude Code Projects turns a codebase into one conversation
One agent per project handles memory and spins off subagents, and the work keeps running after you close the laptop.
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- Mitchell Hashimoto's whiteboard defense for AI code
He does not care who typed the code, only whether you can defend the system in a hallway conversation.
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