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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Amp.\n\nQuinn Slack co-founded Sourcegraph, the code search company, with Beyang Liu in 2013 after both studied at Stanford. Amp began inside Sourcegraph as a coding agent, and in December 2025 he and Liu set it up as a separate company while staying on Sourcegraph's board.\n\n## What Quinn builds\n\n- [Amp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amp.md), graded C, 57.1/100, in Agent harnesses. Amp is a closed-source coding agent from Amp Frontier Corporation, with a terminal CLI, web, macOS and iOS apps and cloud machines called orbs. An execute mode with JSON streaming and TypeScript and Python SDKs let programs run it. Co-founder, Amp, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Beyang Liu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/beyang-liu/), Co-founder, Amp\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Quinn Slack?\n\nQuinn Slack co-founded Sourcegraph, the code search company, with Beyang Liu in 2013 after both studied at Stanford. Amp began inside Sourcegraph as a coding agent, and in December 2025 he and Liu set it up as a separate company while staying on Sourcegraph's board.\n\n### What does Amp Frontier Corporation make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Amp from Amp Frontier Corporation. Amp is a closed-source coding agent from Amp Frontier Corporation, with a terminal CLI, web, macOS and iOS apps and cloud machines called orbs. An execute mode with JSON streaming and TypeScript and Python SDKs let programs run it.\n\n### How are Quinn's tools graded?\n\nAmp is graded C, 57.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://ampcode.com/about\n- https://ampcode.com/news/amp-inc\n- https://ampcode.com/news/amp-frontier-corporation\n- https://sourcegraph.com/blog/why-sourcegraph-and-amp-are-becoming-independent-companies\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourcegraph\n- https://ampcode.com/press-kit\n- https://ampcode.com/docs/markdown/support/getting-help\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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