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Smart mode in Amp now lets you use Opus 4.6 wth 300k input tokens of context, up from 168k. Also, tokens above 200k are now charged at the same (not higher) per-token rate. Why not 1M tokens in smart? Quality/cost aren't right. If truly needed, use (hidden) large mode.

There's a new oracle in Amp: GPT-5.4. ampcode.com/news/gpt-5.4-t…

And here is the model that killed it: GPT-5.3-Codex. ampcode.com/news/gpt-5.3-c…

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

@sqs @thorstenball You can also watch it on YouTube: youtu.be/4rx36wc9ugw Or listen to it on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1AL44JiuD… If you want to listen to all of them: ampcode.com/podcast

Episode 10 of Raising An Agent with @sqs and @thorstenball is out! There's no better summary than this quote: "We will be killing our editor extension, the Amp VS Code extension. We're going to be killing it. And we're going to be killing it because we think it's no longer the future. We think the sidebar is dead. Let's walk through why." Topics in this episode: - The new deep mode in Amp - Balancing developer experience for humans & agents - Killing the VSCode extension & shift away from traditional editors - Pi & OpenClaw, two wonderful projects - Importance of reinventing yourself in AI Enjoy! And happy hacking! Timestamps: 01:00 Deep Mode 10:30 Optimizing the codebase for agents 15:00 Feature Preview: which Skills does your team use? 18:00 Balancing DX for humans & agents 21:35 Killing the Amp editor extension 28:00 The future of software and what it means 33:00 You need to stay agile 36:00 Pi & OpenClaw 39:00 Text editors holding companies back 44:00 Is manual context management coming to an end? 49:00 New concept for Threads 50:00 Amp, the business & the art installation

Lewis wrote about how he gives Amp *visual* feedback:

With agentic coding, we're increasingly reviewing code outside of traditional PRs. So we decoupled the Amp review agent from any UI. Invoke it from the CLI and from within threads (as a skill). You can also define "checks", codebase-specific review guidelines stored in git.

🚨 Claude Sonnet 5 drops next week. ↳ 1M context ↳ Half the price of Opus 4.5 ↳ Best-in-class for agentic coding LFG!! 💥

We're r̶e̶m̶o̶v̶i̶n̶g̶ slashing custom commands in @AmpCode. Use skills instead. ampcode.com/news/slashing-…

You can also watch it on YouTube: youtu.be/2wjnV6F2arc Or listen to it on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1AL44JiuD… If you want to listen to all of them: ampcode.com/podcast

After many months, a lot of model releases and even more Amp releases, here it is: A new episode of Raising An Agent with @sqs and @thorstenball. They discuss: - Why Gemini 3 might have been the inflection point, not Opus 4.5 - What changed over Christmas and why everybody talks about agents now - "The assistant is dead, long live the factory" - How codebases need to adapt for agents - Why small/local models don't give you an impression of the frontier - What does it mean for a codebase to be agent-friendly? - New things coming to Amp Enjoy! And happy hacking! Timestamps: 1:51 The Impact of Gemini 3 and Opus 4.5 5:28 Shifting Perceptions of AI Agents 10:17 Adapting Codebases for AI Efficiency 14:48 The Future of Software Development with AI Agents 19:29 Challenges and Opportunities Ahead 24:00 The Importance of Frontier Models 25:12 Adapting to AI-Driven Workflows 26:57 The Future of Coding Agents 28:07 Building an Agentic Code Base 30:22 Rethinking Development Tools 31:44 Amp's Evolution and Team Dynamics 33:00 Discord Q&A 39:18 Teasing New Features: Deep

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@dhh Full episode: youtu.be/uWqno4HM4xA

"If you're in this game... your sense of wonder is your safety line." @dhh on surviving the AI transition without losing your mind.

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"Just jump off a bridge now." @dhh on the nightmare of being a "Content Creator".

@dhh Full episode: youtu.be/uWqno4HM4xA

Teaser -> Trailer -> Launch? Dead. @dhh breaks down why the "Blockbuster" era is over and why you need to flood the channel instead.

@dhh Full episode: youtu.be/uWqno4HM4xA

"I love computers. Just for the sheer machine of it." @dhh on why so many working in tech are missing the point.