---
session_id: "1373470"
title: "How to build an agent that builds the culture"
phase: live
last_checked: 2026-11-12T13:24:21-08:00
render: 20261112-132421-c4d6ee
---

# Links: How to build an agent that builds the culture

## Speaker

**Zach Bruggeman**, Principal Software Engineer, Ramp (leads Inspect)

- GitHub: [remixz](https://github.com/remixz)

## Company

**[Ramp](https://ramp.com/)**: "Ramp's spend management platform. Combine global
corporate cards, travel, expenses and accounts payable to automate finance
operations." (from the site). The talk is about Inspect, Ramp's collaborative,
multiplayer coding agent.

## Resources

- **Blog** · [Why We Built Our Own Background Agent](https://builders.ramp.com/post/why-we-built-our-background-agent)
  (Ramp Builders, co-authored by Zach Bruggeman). The plumbing the talk skips:
  remote sandboxes, internal context, multiplayer sessions ("You can read our
  blog").
- **Blog** · [Why Ramp built its own in-house coding agent, Inspect](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-ramp-built-inspect)
  (The Pragmatic Engineer, 2026-08-25). The deep dive the talk points to.
- **Product** · [Inspect by Ramp: The Collaborative Coding Agent](https://ramp.com/blog/introducing-inspect)
  (Ramp, 2026-10-27). Inspect as a product in early access; the page puts it at
  74% of merged PRs, against the talk's "around seventy-five percent".

## Gaps

- Partial recording: the talk was cut short, so only the first seven minutes are
  covered.
- The colleague the talk says to follow on Twitter (transcribed "Dylan Garcia")
  was not identified.
- No LinkedIn or X profile verifiably his (the roster lists only GitHub).
- No official recording or slides found yet. The dossier rechecks every 6 hours
  during the event.