Ask the girl.
Shoot the shot.
Launch the business.
Run the ad.
Quit the job.
Take the risk.
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never imagined I'm gonna love using cloud agents that much until I used @AmpCode 's Orbs.
they're totally different than what I've tried so far (cursor, claude code, codex, .. etc).
Orbs was the only concept that felt intuitive from minute one. shipped more side work in one session than I usually do in weeks.
still takes some effort to adjust your mentality to that pace though.
I still switch between agents locally, but for cloud agents? can't think of anything but Amp
I was the last amp team member to go all in on orbs. I thought my local dev flow was good enough. It worked. I was incredibly productive. I didn't need a change.
But I forced myself into orbs. And I found there was a lot of friction that I can't even explain - subconscious stuff - like...I can't parallelize that because of some stupid reason. I don't *want* to parallelize that because how do I tell the model make a new worktree, but also it's going to suck running tests because you'll fight with 7 other agents over CPU so please run them only in your domain and some orchestrator will run the full thing?
Orbs eliminate the need for worktrees. They let me think more about my application and less about my resources...less about the "how".
We said Amp Labs would go deep with a few carefully selected customers on the frontier.
We've been quietly building in Sydney with @Westpac, one of Australia's oldest and most respected companies.
What it looks like when half your users change model providers in a week and none of them notice.
We swapped Amp's default from Opus 4.8 to GPT-5.6 overnight. We got no complaints.
"Which model should I use" is a full-time job now. It shouldn't be yours.
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