I love when technological progress kills a feature.
The models are so good that (A) this feature is too risky and (B) it's not needed anymore to convince people that agents are good.
https://t.co/PlPosB3wYu
Amp Labs: small teams of the best software builders, working inside the most frontier-oriented company per industry and region.
https://t.co/IAI3YBqBWf
We're still seeing and fixing bugs and instability in the Amp Neo CLI. If you're in the Neo beta, run `amp --take-me-back` to use the non-beta Amp CLI that is unaffected by these issues. (Or keep using Neo if you want. I am.)
I'm really sorry for these issues. We hit some unexpected scaling issues on this new architecture, and that's on us. We're working around the clock to get it stable and then open it up to more people. And huge thank you to everyone who's giving feedback and sending reports!
Smart mode in Amp now lets you use Opus 4.6 wth 300k input tokens of context, up from 168k. Also, tokens above 200k are now charged at the same (not higher) per-token rate.
Why not 1M tokens in smart? Quality/cost aren't right. If truly needed, use (hidden) large mode.
@sqs@thorstenball You can also watch it on YouTube: https://t.co/4nROo80RT3
Or listen to it on Spotify: https://t.co/hC6cKM9WeT
If you want to listen to all of them: https://t.co/Jam7aLMDQG
Episode 10 of Raising An Agent with @sqs and @thorstenball is out!
There's no better summary than this quote:
"We will be killing our editor extension, the Amp VS Code extension. We're going to be killing it. And we're going to be killing it because we think it's no longer the future. We think the sidebar is dead. Let's walk through why."
Topics in this episode:
- The new deep mode in Amp
- Balancing developer experience for humans & agents
- Killing the VSCode extension & shift away from traditional editors
- Pi & OpenClaw, two wonderful projects
- Importance of reinventing yourself in AI
Enjoy! And happy hacking!
Timestamps:
01:00 Deep Mode
10:30 Optimizing the codebase for agents
15:00 Feature Preview: which Skills does your team use?
18:00 Balancing DX for humans & agents
21:35 Killing the Amp editor extension
28:00 The future of software and what it means
33:00 You need to stay agile
36:00 Pi & OpenClaw
39:00 Text editors holding companies back
44:00 Is manual context management coming to an end?
49:00 New concept for Threads
50:00 Amp, the business & the art installation
My workflow on @AmpCode is now about setting up playgrounds for myself and Amp.
I use the playgrounds to experiment, find limits, and break stuff. Amp uses them for rapid iteration and exploration.
I love working this way and wrote about it:
https://t.co/mWKPIbJwc9