How Amp Ships 50 Times a Day With AI Agents

<p>Amp ships to production around 50 times a day with AI agents, but the change that makes their team ship faster isn&#39;t AI at all. Dario Hamidi, AI engineer at Amp, makes the case that pull requests are holding your team back, and explains what replaces them.</p><p>In this video, we cover:</p><ul><li>Why Amp works without pull requests or feature branches, and how to try it with your own team</li><li>Agent permissions, approval fatigue, and building environments where you can trust agents</li><li>Orbs: remote agent execution, parallelism, and multiplayer sessions</li><li>Short-lived credentials and workload identity federation for cloud agents</li><li>Triaging 60+ bug reports a day with agents without frying your brain</li></ul><p>For engineers and engineering leads who want to ship faster with AI agents and are ready to question the workflows they&#39;ve always used.</p><p>Timestamps:<br>00:00:00 - Is It Time to Kill the Pull Request?<br>00:00:45 - What Happens If Every PR Gets Auto-Closed Tomorrow<br>00:05:04 - Pull Requests Were Built for Strangers, Not Teammates<br>00:07:20 - Does Dropping PRs Hurt Quality at Scale?<br>00:08:53 - Agent Permissions: Why No Default Makes Everyone Happy<br>00:12:42 - Don&#39;t Juggle Knives: Building Environments You Can Trust<br>00:14:56 - The Hidden Hard Parts of Cloud Agents<br>00:16:39 - What&#39;s an Orb? Remote Agent Execution Explained<br>00:19:10 - How to Give Agents Credentials Without Leaking Secrets<br>00:22:51 - Why Orbs Live Forever (and Multiplayer Orbs)<br>00:25:49 - The State Management Problem Nobody Talks About<br>00:29:22 - When Will Everyone Have Remote Dev Environments?<br>00:32:23 - Orbs That Spawn Orbs: Orchestrating Agents at Scale<br>00:34:42 - How Dario Triages 60 Bug Reports a Day With Agents<br>00:39:23 - Avoiding Burnout When Agents Remove the Ceiling</p><p><a href="#AIAgents">#AIAgents</a> <a href="#SoftwareEngineering">#SoftwareEngineering</a> <a href="#PullRequests">#PullRequests</a></p>