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Working on another "just for fun" app in @AmpCode The fact that making an entire application as a laugh is everything I've ever wanted from technology

straight up i post 7x a day. yes it sounds excessive. but: a) i love to yap b) power law of posts is real - 1 might break out, rest are reps

Real taste in products is not in the eye of other famous or noteworthy builders Taste is in being able to understand customers or users, model them and make choices that delight them and solve problems for them, and be right over and over again with incomplete information

New @AmpCode CLI is 🔥 And so useable on mobile!

Good feature, didn’t have to resort to trolling 😀

🔥 NEW: Amp CLI 🛳️ includes: >> /slash commands >> improved TODOs >> tool call insights >> extended view with ctrl+r >> message streaming 🎥 quick demo. how to install link ⬇️

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…

My six-year-old dress is like a complete maniac Knee-high green socks Bright blue shorts Inside out and backwards black tshirt

If you could kick off a coding agent from Slack what are the must have features?

Spent the last few days building github.com/trly/miniflux-… with @AmpCode to help me keep up with with all my RSS feeds. Being pretty new to Github actions and using it to troubleshoot CI/CD issues with PyPi publishing was incredibly helpful. ampcode.com/threads/T-6a04…

Pretty cool to see how others prompt with Amp, with real results. Anyone got other neat side projects and agentic threads they care to share?

In this episode, Beyang and Thorsten discuss strategies for effective agentic coding, including the 101 of how it's different from coding with chat LLMs, the key constraint of the context window, how and where subagents can help, and the new oracle subagent which combines…

genuinely the coolest blog ever: ampcode.com/how-to-build-a… sending this to an agent to make your first agent is nuts

Going full Red Bull

THIS is the beauty of ai. today, anyone can harness the power of universal computation it's no longer the domain of wizards who spent years learning the secret incantations it's the domain of all humanity now.

just shy of 10M impressions in the last few months. biggest learnings?? 1. experiment a SHITLOAD (post more than you're comfortable with) 2. be controversial 3. remember WHY you're here. growth is a means to an end, not an end in itself

Anyone can build software with Amp, for any platform. We build for professional devs, because this pushes us to make the agent powerful with a high ceiling, but it's a long ladder the bottom rungs of which are accessible to those with no coding experience. Amp doesn't lock you…

Adrienne is the Executive Business Partner & Office Manager at @AmpCode She is self described as "non technical" Yet this weekend she build a chrome extension that saves her 1 day a month worth of work Here is her story: x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

if you missed the @baseapp keynote, it's a must watch the amount of thoughtfulness and effort that went into this was incredible. the passion and talent from every single person on the @base team is unreal here's my 90 seconds talking about @RemixGG_ dream come true to be on…