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Thorsten Ball

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Author of https://t.co/arW0hnWcIy and https://t.co/RN9xXOzPEl. Working on @ampcode. Writing https://t.co/0SZD6dcj40.

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Turns out you can do a lot in the terminal

Turns out you can do a lot in the terminal

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The Amp CLI now has a map of your threads

The Amp CLI now has a map of your threads

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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?

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?

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

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

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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.

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.

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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!

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!

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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.

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.

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You really love that blog post on building an agent, huh? I think you'll like Amp. I'd suggest to get on the waitlist while that's still possible. (Or get a friend to invite you!)

You really love that blog post on building an agent, huh? I think you'll like Amp. I'd suggest to get on the waitlist while that's still possible. (Or get a friend to invite you!)

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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?

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

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"I am the bottleneck now" Few more thoughts

"I am the bottleneck now" Few more thoughts

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

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

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

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

172,990 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce

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

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

72,902 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce

There it is, the first orb

There it is, the first orb

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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:

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:

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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.

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.

33,228 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce

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

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

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"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.

"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.

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

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

35,551 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce

Agent controlling tmux to test itself is magical

Agent controlling tmux to test itself is magical

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Didn't write a single line of code by hand for this :) Takes raw Substack archive dump, renders it, adds search, reverse-indexes the J&C URLs.

Didn't write a single line of code by hand for this :) Takes raw Substack archive dump, renders it, adds search, reverse-indexes the J&C URLs.

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Amp Tab for all! Let's gooo :)

Amp Tab for all! Let's gooo :)

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theme: switch I'm kinda shook. Amp's new experimental deep mode built this today. I didn't write a single line of code. I gave it a big prompt at the start with strategy for how I'd implement it and then nothing but handoff and 2-3 "continue" and small messages. Ship it?

theme: switch I'm kinda shook. Amp's new experimental deep mode built this today. I didn't write a single line of code. I gave it a big prompt at the start with strategy for how I'd implement it and then nothing but handoff and 2-3 "continue" and small messages. Ship it?

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Woke up and decided to add support for Go.

Woke up and decided to add support for Go.

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Video I recorded to convince the rest of Sourcegraph to buy one of the best macOS apps I've ever used: CleanShot

Video I recorded to convince the rest of Sourcegraph to buy one of the best macOS apps I've ever used: CleanShot

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Amp doing distributed system protocol testing via tmux What a time to be alive eh?

Amp doing distributed system protocol testing via tmux What a time to be alive eh?

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Just merged my PR to restore unsaved buffers on restart in Zed 🥳 No more "You have unsaved changes" when quitting Zed. It'll be in the Preview release next week. Next step: restore project-less windows on restart.

Just merged my PR to restore unsaved buffers on restart in Zed 🥳 No more "You have unsaved changes" when quitting Zed. It'll be in the Preview release next week. Next step: restore project-less windows on restart.

32,847 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce

New JetBrains integration in the Amp CLI

New JetBrains integration in the Amp CLI

12,341 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce