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Good thread using Amp to make a quick improvement to an internal metrics dashboard. Dan is not on the dev team (though I will note that we held a typing speed competition at the office once and he beat everyone by a wide margin).

Who else is ricing their mac desktop more than ever thanks to AI (for me, a lot of it is getting to behavior I miss from i3 on Linux)

Beyond the baseline "can this model do tool calls robustly" question, it is very interesting how different models have subtle differences in how they prefer to use tools given static tool descriptions, which can lead to very wide deltas in end user experience.

You know you're doing something right when 2 CEOs of >$1B AI coding companies have reached out to team members trying to ask what you're doing that they aren't

The AGI/no-AGI discussion is tiresome because it inevitably devolves into pointless debate about semantics. Ditto "superintelligence". The most succinct, yet precise way of describing what the current wave of models can do is what Demis conjectured in his Nobel lecture:

Amp is really good for coding education. It’s the only agentic coding tool that naturally encourages thread sharing and spreading newfound agentic coding tricks and strategies. Just had a college professor reach out about getting Amp in his classroom, too!

Amp uptime over last 30 days. There have been some blips as we scramble to handle strong growth, but in general really happy about this.

Making amp more composable and scriptable. What other features would you like to see for programmatic use cases?

Ya’ll @AmpCode is good. Try it. Thank me later. It’s expensive but not as expensive as your time.

Man I take a look at what others say LLMs can and can’t do and then I take a look at what Amp users are actually doing and the gap is wider than I thought. So much alpha in choosing a power tool with no-nerf pricing and investing in getting good at it.

Another little vibe-coded chrome extension thanks to Amp 😅

You know you can just vibecode a browser into your macOS status bar now? I wonder how much longer until platform makers start exposing dev tools to normie end users to do deeper customizations of the user experience. Like, all an operating system is, is a set of APIs on top of…

Is there a higher compliment?

Years ago, I remember relating to @sqs a story from the Chinese classic Zhuangzi. We were talking about software craftsmanship, and I was reminded of the tale of Ting, the chef. A provincial governor stopped by Ting’s station and noticed the way in which he was slicing up a slab…

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