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[Beyang @beyang]

@doughydev That's what I was going for :)

[Beyang @beyang]

You can orb from a plane, you can orb on the train.
You can orb from the lab—and even in your Cybercab!

[svs_dev @skatevideosite_]

Living in the future!

Was watching @MostlyTechPod in a cybercab, @IanLandsman brought up @AmpCode, realized I should be orbin’ instead

There’s no general web browser in a cab, so I left a comment on YouTube with the amp url which let me open it

It’s orbin’ time

[Beyang @beyang]

@merlindru Orbs are one part of the overall infrastructure. Agent durability, thread coordination, teams, inference, plugins, etc. are outside of orbs.

Think of it as similar to the classic control-plane/data-plane split but with orbs rather than data.

[Beyang @beyang]

Our orbs, your compute. “Yourbs”

[Thorsten Ball @thorstenball]

You can now self-host orbs.

It's free for individuals and teams.

https://t.co/FSFcICRPZ0

[Beyang @beyang]

@sudomateo Fair point, human bureaucracy is quickly becoming the limiting factor in a bunch of technical places.

[Beyang @beyang]

A lot of apps currently feel jank on the iPhone Duo and he estimates it might take 6 months on average to update them to be good.

Somehow I doubt it will take that long in this day and age…

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

The current state of apps on iPhone Duo: https://t.co/1jJt58zXN8

[Beyang @beyang]

@gvrooyen Amazing

[Beyang @beyang]

@qiqing @swyx @ScottWu46 First half 24, second half poker?

[Beyang @beyang]

PSA for big enterprises affected by any of today’s security insanity: Sourcegraph provides a way to apply remediations across all your organization’s repositories.

This saved many a Christmas during the log4j incident.

You’ll likely want this for what’s coming.

[Sourcegraph @Sourcegraph]

PHP released patches for two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, that could allow attackers to execute code remotely without authentication.

Finding every affected PHP version across hundreds or thousands of repos is a challenge. We're sharing Sourcegraph search queries and Agentic Batch Changes specs to help you find and fix #php2shell vulns.

Learn more: https://t.co/3POXS763xs

Need help? Post a comment and we'll help you get Sourcegraph set up to find potentially affected repos and roll out patches.

[Alex Kemper @ajkemps]

If you’re interested in joining, we’re hiring FDEs in Sydney and NYC right now:

https://t.co/NUEiLz13Ot

[Quinn Slack @sqs]

Amp can now (deterministically) Ask First before running certain MCP tools, like transfer_money or send_gmail.

(We talked in https://t.co/wARGJEqVw3 how this kind of thing let us trust the agent to do a lot more, like granting credits and emailing users who hit bugs.)

[Beyang @beyang]

The way we work has to keep up with what the technology is capable of. So much of software development best practices in the past 20 years was founded on axioms that no longer hold.

[Amp @AmpCode]

21 people, a single meeting a week, no quarterly goals, no pull requests, no mandatory code review, no titles (except one dictator), a hundred releases a day, bugs fixed in minutes, famous for killing features.

@sqs and @thorstenball on how the Amp team works:

[Beyang @beyang]

I'll be speaking at this event organized by @exedev and @jana_iris at @sentry next week to share a bit about what we've found effective when working with agents and maybe some idiosyncratic viewpoints and demos. Hope to see you there!

https://t.co/jTTgo5r98h

[Beyang @beyang]

You can now assign tasks to Amp from Linear!

[Tim Culverhouse @rockorager]

It's integration Monday! Now you can assign issues to Amp in Linear.

https://t.co/zwlXIUaEDQ

[Beyang @beyang]

Very cool to see diffusion models emerging as another model architecture that could shake up the model landscape

[Stefano Ermon @StefanoErmon]

1/4 Today, we’re releasing Mercury 3. Mercury 3 is by far our most powerful model and the most intelligent diffusion LLM ever released. It outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Haiku 5.5 on quality while running at 1000+ tok/sec.

[Beyang @beyang]

@HamelHusain Congrats Hamel, bullish sign for OpenAI models!

[Beyang @beyang]

A bold experiment

[nunomaduro @enunomaduro]

.@vanamerongen is going to lead a pretty wild experiment: turning https://t.co/G4X6nv1uzR into the world’s first agentic social network

the idea: our users open issues directly on the app; those issues get picked up automatically by remote @AmpCode agents running in the cloud.. the agents dig in, propose a pull request, and then self-evaluate their own work.. if the fix is obvious and low-risk (think a small frontend change), it gets merged automatically

no human in the loop! let's see how far we can push it

[Beyang @beyang]

The Model K was incredibly overpowered. It could do 60mph, insane for those days. But Ford called it a waste of money because what kind of roads would support that kind of speed?

Reminds me of coding agents with legacy codebases and legacy processes.

[Beyang @beyang]

At the California Automobile Museum and the docent explains that Henry Ford originally didn’t build the engine or really any of the important pieces of a car, he just assembled the parts.

Ford Motor Company was just a wrapper.

[Beyang @beyang]

@JSHorwitz We don’t have a list. This is the list of agents Figma supports. You can connect Synter today!

[Beyang @beyang]

You can now use the Figma MCP from Amp

[Dylan Field @zoink]

Now that I'm not in back to back meetings... happy to announce we have added 20 new MCP partners! And many more to come.