Ólafur Páll Geirsson
@olafurpg
Hacking on @ampcode. Tweets about programming languages, build systems, IDE tooling and family life
Billions poured into training the best model. Meanwhile, the research button jitters in the Gemini iOS app as you’re typing.
Ya’ll @AmpCode is good. Try it. Thank me later. It’s expensive but not as expensive as your time.
While @AmpCode is great for large, agentic coding sessions… Sometimes you need to make surgical edits to the code yourself. We’ve enabled more fine grained suggestions in Amp Tab, so you can now Tab through a refactor and view each change carefully
Amp is the best AI agent I've ever used (better than Claude Code). Recommend me AI agents in the comments and I'll try them to see if anything is better
Why is Claude Code a 170mb download? Their ripgrep binaries are 30-40mb per platform while normal ripgrep binaries are 2-3mb. That's 400 terabytes of unnecessary bandwidth per week.
JetBrains would have a different trajectory if they stopped breaking their plugin APIs, and if they removed the two-day manual review step for plugin releases. This is low-hanging fruit, they're leaving so much goodwill on the table.
Insert meme with Turkish shooter from the Olympics on how some of the AI agents have way too many knobs to customize the model and context. My favorite part of Amp is that it’s just a text input.
A very cool new integration just shipped in @AmpCode for JetBrains IDEs - running amp from the project root with `amp --jetbrains` will enable the integration automatically, as long as you have the JetBrains MCP plugin installed! ampcode.com/manual#jetbrai…
"vim.foldfix": true Can't believe I didn't discover this until now. Folds are practically unusable in VS Code without this setting. IYKYK
It's astounding how much code review happens on GitHub given how poor the PR experience is
🧵 Why I Switched from @cursor_ai to @AmpCode (and Won’t Go Back anytime soon)
I’m experiencing a greater ROI for maintaining clean code because it helps AI agents work more effectively in the codebase. Code has never been read more before thanks to AI, and the best part is that AI always reads the comments from the latest commit.
AI amnesia is sometimes a feature, not a bug. You can refactor the codebase to use a new pattern and the AI will never use the old pattern again.
I love how Claude Code is written in TS and they just bundle 170mb of binaries with every npm release. This would be rejected in so many architecture reviews while users seemingly don’t care.