How I work with Agents ... as of October 2026. Use the latest and greatest models. Everything else is potentially a waste of time. If a model is wrong 10% of the time, you don't know which 10%, so you end up making multiple attempts. When do you really want to hire a generalist…↗

Everything has changed for us with orbs. My biggest struggle right now is figuring out how to make you see what we see. So I sat down and wrote about it: ampcode.com/notes/what-i-w…↗

How to get a big pile of bullshit? Ask a model about something you wrote. You get: "It works because it keeps escalating" "The strongest insight is not what you think" "The thing that made me stop was ..." "This is probably my favorite paragraph. I’d honestly tighten it even f…↗

Friends, it's time to meet Puck. It's a your new assistant in Amp. Fast & always reachable, Puck can: research & read code & check CI, spawn other agents and talk to them, manage all of your threads for you. The agent to manage your agents. ampcode.com/news/meet-puck↗

I wrote down how we made our codebase work for agents in remote machines. Orb setup, custom dev server tooling, /__dev endpoints for auth, log tricks, 41 AGENTS.md files. It's all in here.↗

Some thoughts on ownership I shared with the team this morning↗

An internal Slack post I shared with the Amp team a few weeks ago: Building software is learning. registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/building-sof…↗

Software After Software 1. Everything is changing. 1.1. We are in the midst of a transformation so large that nearly everything we assumed to be true about how software and business work must be rethought. 1.2. It will take years to play out. 1.3. The end game is not yet appa…↗

We believe the coding agent is dead. Soon, Amp will look very different. ampcode.com/news/the-codin…↗

"I am the bottleneck now" Few more thoughts↗