Thorsten Ball

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Working on @ampcode. Writing https://t.co/0SZD6dbLes. Once authored https://t.co/arW0hnVET0 and https://t.co/RN9xXOzhON.

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Turns out you can do a lot in the terminal

Very satisfying

The Amp CLI now has a map of your threads

File content bleeds through behind the sticky headers in GitHub's commit view. It's been there for a while and every time I see I'm thinking: "this should be fixed ASAP, why hasn't it?" Is this.. intentional?

Fascinated by the UI of the water fountain thing at the gym. Why does this look like it was built in Powerpoint?

Amp added a ripple effect to my terminal. Rendered on the GPU. First try: didn't work. I wrote "here, it looks off" and Gemini goes "ah, yeah, struct alignment is off", fixed it, and here we are. Two user messages.

Never ceases to amaze me when opening the Unifi web interface. 11.7 MB of JavaScript, taking 14s to download, while looking at a blank page. So many questions!

Let's do some streaming! I'm going to hack on my toy terminal emulator in Rust using Amp for the next 1-2 hours.

Panic's Nova editor has these tiny animations when the cursor ends up on matching braces/parentheses. Never seen that before. First impression: cute! Wondering though if it won't become too much after a while?

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"I am the bottleneck now" Few more thoughts

Why I think the harness is no longer what provides the most leverage.

"Aren't orbs just VMs?" Nah, not even close:

"If you stop, you're dead" Some thoughts on model providers, the race they're in, inference margins, and the tectonic forces shaping software right now.

"If you had John Carmack writing code for you, would you hover over his shoulder?" Why we built orbs:

"If I know it works, what do I care about the code?" I went into the snowstorm to record another video.

How I iterate with agents in orbs using portals Quick, off the cuff video. Hit me with your questions!

Is the future of software... jellyware? Thoughts about what's between traditional software and vibecoding; software that's 99% AI but high quality.

Amp's CLI is now a proper, full-on TUI. Best part for me personally? No more Ink, no more flicker.

More thoughts on jellyware &amp; why engineers turning their nose up at it might be wrong in the long run

"Is GitHub dead?" Recorded a spontaneous little video with thoughts on the future of developer tooling

There it is, the first orb

It's orbin' time in Munich

Someone asked me yesterday in response to our release: "Is this truly *it*, the next step for agents? A terminal application? Or is the next step a proper desktop application?" Here's my answer:

Playing around with GPT-5.4 and I had it one-shot a version of a Bavarian card game that lets me play against Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4.

Opus 4.5 added earthquakes and sparkles to my terminal, using Metal shaders. Two messages from my side.

"Is this the bet you want to take? While everything around us is changing?" Some loose thoughts on why this isn't business as usual right now and why treating it as such might not be a good option.

Hey Neovim friends, we've got some good news: You can now connect the Amp CLI to Neovim!

Agent controlling tmux to test itself is magical

Amp Tab for all! Let's gooo :)

More thoughts on jellyware & why engineers turning their nose up at it might be wrong in the long run

Someone asked me yesterday in response to our release: "Is this truly it, the next step for agents? A terminal application? Or is the next step a proper desktop application?" Here's my answer: