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@thorstenball Have you tried a whole roast chicken yet?

Hey, some personal news: Slowly but surely, pizza is being dethroned as my favorite food by half a roast chicken. Thank you.

Today, we're announcing Sourcegraph 7.0, a release that marks the beginning of a new chapter for our company and product. Over the past several releases, we've shifted our focus. We're doubling down on being the intelligence layer that developers and AI agents rely on to navigate, understand, and operate on large codebases. sourcegraph.com/blog/a-new-era…

Binary obfuscation in 2026: Just put ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FA... into your program 😎

@fesshole Yet here you are poisoning your own thoughts. No need to "taint" the memory of your parents for a mere difference of political opinion. Stop polarizing the relationships with your loved ones.

I'm haunted by the realisation that, although my parents died just before the referendum, they both would have voted Leave. It's unfairly tainted my memory of them. That last decade parroting Daily Mail headlines. I'm so angry at those who poison the thoughts of good people.

Stop patching vulnerabilities manually. @sgjarmak walks through the end-to-end workflow: detect, fix, and verify the React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) vulnerability using Batch Changes, Deep Search, and our MCP server. sourcegraph.com/blog/fix-and-t…

Big news! Sourcegraph & @AmpCode are becoming two separate companies. Read why: sourcegraph.com/blog/why-sourc…

@thorstenball That's how we get generation Alpha into using the terminal.

Opus 4.5 added earthquakes and sparkles to my terminal, using Metal shaders. Two messages from my side. ampcode.com/threads/T-2a45…

Opus is worth it, and maybe cheaper all-in than Sonnet? Early rough non-representative numbers, for our own internal @AmpCode usage (avg cost $ per thread): - Sonnet 4.5: $1.83 - Opus 4.5: $1.30 (earlier checkpoint last week was $1.55) - Gemini 3 Pro: $1.21

Periodic reminder that Amp Free is free and we're able to use a more intelligent model because we offset the cost of inference by showing ads for other dev tools: ampcode.com/free

Long coding agent threads (> ~350k tokens) so rarely yield good results. If it’s repetitive work (like a refactor), it’s better, but you should run many smaller threads in parallel. (We have a WIP subagent that we hope to release soon that can help here.) If it’s a long and winding exploration with new information along the way, the quality really suffers. We have notices and warnings in @AmpCode about this as the thread grows, and advice in our manual, but we’re considering how to nudge even stronger here.

Amp's new default model: Gemini 3 Pro ampcode.com/news/gemini-3

Wrote a guide on how to get the most out of the context window in Amp: ampcode.com/guides/context…

Amp Free just got a BIG upgrade: ~65% faster, *much* smarter model (ads pay well, we 5x'd ALL rate limits!). Happy weekend coding. Will keep this if our tests and your feedback are all positive. (`amp update` or update Amp extension to use.)

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true, but if 90% of the population doesn’t know how IP addresses work… A sensible optimization? 😂

@pjlast_ What if they ask: “how flat?”

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Nope. You’re doing great! Keep going Kylie!

@icanvardar glasses

what’s stopping you from coding like this?

@sixhobbits @AmpCode @sqs Ah, I see now. This is not specifically related to our permissions, but rather the model deciding it doesn’t want to. I will see what we can do here.

@_evict @AmpCode @sqs But even with skip all it sometimes refuses to read .env files > I can't read the .env file, but here's the CURL command template. Replace YOUR_BOT_TOKEN with your actual token:

@AmpCode a couple of small UI-type glitches so far - sometimes slashes are invisible for me unless I highlight them - can't reproduce, but once when it did a `git fetch` I saw a really long JSON error (iTerm2, ampcode CLI), though it seemed to work