@thorstenball Avatar @thorstenball Thorsten Ball

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Social category influence technology brands 8.67% gaming 6% social networks 4% stocks 3.33% finance 2% products 1.33% countries 0.67% travel destinations 0.67% currencies 0.67%

Social topic influence in the 8%, agents #23, ai #3714, minecraft 6%, this is 5.33%, future 4%, if you 3.33%, loops #5, the most 2.67%, tools #3150

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @sqs @nicobaogim @ampcode @james_roe @mitsuhiko @r00k @nicolaygerold @bretajohnson @bruceastor @ambivalentcase @paulmaddison121 @rvtond @cootiejuice @filpizlo @badlogicgames @sluongng @joeemison @abraguilera @tbskspr @marcelfahle

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Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"A year ago I wondered: how might AI change programming Will we optimize codebases for agents Will we write documentation for agents How naive it all sounds now doesnt it This week's Joy & Curiosity is out. https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-curiosity-73 https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-curiosity-73"
X Link 2026-02-08T06:44Z 44K followers, 29.9K engagements

"Have a feeling that the reign of Anthropic as the builder of the most capable models for coding is now coming to an end. (Spare me the "I've been using [---] since." I feel in love with Gemini [--] before you could even say "tipping point" in December)"
X Link 2026-02-06T10:17Z 44K followers, 70.8K engagements

"@archeologistdev I'm not missing that. I'm talking about a very tricky but simple to fix bug. Product features I don't pipe from Slack to code. But my point is not "this is how we should do it" but that the existing tools aren't made for the new world"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:17Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

"man GPT-5.2 is very good"
X Link 2026-01-19T05:45Z 42.3K followers, 537.9K engagements

"I've played around with this yesterday but nothing seems to help with latency and packet loss from Germany. As far as I understand it there's still routers/proxies in front of the workers and the route is very slow and spotty. Is there anything one can do about this when using workers"
X Link 2026-01-23T14:27Z 41.3K followers, [----] engagements

""If I know it works what do I care about the code" I went into the snowstorm to record another video"
X Link 2026-01-26T13:39Z 41.4K followers, 185.7K engagements

"Discord is the only piece of software that makes me feel old"
X Link 2026-01-30T14:49Z 41.3K followers, [----] engagements

""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"
X Link 2026-02-04T16:10Z 41.4K followers, 29.5K engagements

"amp review - let's go 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. https://t.co/tiVKsAZGry 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."
X Link 2026-02-04T20:39Z 41.3K followers, 12.4K engagements

"This is an amazing post My workflow on @AmpCode is now about setting up playgrounds for myself and Amp. I use the playgrounds to experiment find limits and break stuff. Amp uses them for rapid iteration and exploration. I love working this way and wrote about it: https://t.co/mWKPIbJwc9 https://t.co/KAgIhB6qxx My workflow on @AmpCode is now about setting up playgrounds for myself and Amp. I use the playgrounds to experiment find limits and break stuff. Amp uses them for rapid iteration and exploration. I love working this way and wrote about it: https://t.co/mWKPIbJwc9 https://t.co/KAgIhB6qxx"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:16Z 41.3K followers, 13.3K engagements

"We're killing the editor extension. It'll self-destruct. There's a lot in here that explains our thinking around this and why most of the software company playbooks of the last 20-30 years don't apply in AI land right now. Episode [--] 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 https://t.co/8KFfVjjsY8 Episode [--] of Raising An Agent with @sqs and @thorstenball is out There's no"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:32Z 41.3K followers, 13K engagements

"@mitsuhiko 100%. I think a lot of stress comes from the "you need to be running [--] agents in parallel while you work while you shower while you sleep otherwise you're ngmi""
X Link 2026-02-06T08:16Z 41.4K followers, [----] engagements

"marketing voice "Get a taste of the frontier." What a week in coding. Go try some new things in Amp this weekend with $80 free Opus [---] usage and more. Link in reply for the first takers: https://t.co/yswUgAElvj What a week in coding. Go try some new things in Amp this weekend with $80 free Opus [---] usage and more. Link in reply for the first takers: https://t.co/yswUgAElvj"
X Link 2026-02-06T12:43Z 42.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@danilobleal @zeddotdev Skills can be invoked by the agent that's a huge difference. And they come with different scripts. Have you tried them For me it only clicked after trying them for a while"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:27Z 41.3K followers, [----] engagements

"In order for my agent to spin up a small machine on DigitalOcean I (cave man) had to - click "sign up" and get an error because apparently I had a DO account - go to "sign in" and use "sign in with github" to get an error because apparently I used email the last time - unlock my 1password by typing my password - not get the email/pw autofilled and had two manually click the 1p button - be told that there's an email with a confirmation code - go to my gmail copy the confirmation code - paste the confirmation code into DO - create an api key for Amp - store the api key in 1password by"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:17Z 42.8K followers, 16.5K engagements

"@krisrpdev Who said "someone" doesn't mean an agent listening"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:42Z 41.3K followers, [----] engagements

"If you haven't: Saturday is a great day to read this post. It's so fun and intriguing and magical. (I swear to you I'd say the same thing even if Lewis weren't my colleague and even if he hadn't promised to buy me three beers next time we meet which he doesn't even know yet) My workflow on @AmpCode is now about setting up playgrounds for myself and Amp. I use the playgrounds to experiment find limits and break stuff. Amp uses them for rapid iteration and exploration. I love working this way and wrote about it: https://t.co/mWKPIbJwc9 https://t.co/KAgIhB6qxx My workflow on @AmpCode is now"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:56Z 41.3K followers, 20.2K engagements

"@r00k @sqs @rockorager @nicolaygerold amp-devs@ampcode.com and also:"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:02Z 41.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@bretajohnson Use and you got both in one http://ampcode.com http://ampcode.com"
X Link 2026-02-10T07:15Z 41.4K followers, [---] engagements

"And it's so strange to hear how you are reasoning everything else toward a more autonomous future but decided on the opposite for the test harness. Wdym We are actively changing our test harness to go more into the autonomous future no We have deep mode now we're deleting the editor extension https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021168844815913093 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021168844815913093"
X Link 2026-02-10T10:26Z 41.4K followers, [--] engagements

"@kwuchu It's called and deep mode. http://ampcode.com http://ampcode.com"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:36Z 41.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@renegadesilicon @jobergum We're trying to get the most out of the GPT-5.2+ models. We noticed that it doesn't do that well with subagents yet so we took most of them out which leads to better performance right now. Might want to make a comeback"
X Link 2026-02-11T06:50Z 41.4K followers, [--] engagements

"@RidgetopAI It spawned a window to take a screenshot of and I typed into that window :("
X Link 2026-02-11T14:36Z 42.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@abraguilera No playing around with the Codex macOS app"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:42Z 42.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@bruceastor It runs on Opus [---] what"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:15Z 42.6K followers, [---] engagements

"@tbskspr @marcelfahle Yeah but that's just another UI on top of Threads no Imagine if you have a ticketing system like Linear but as soon as you stop typing an agent starts working on it in the background. You won't know until you look. That's the same thing I mean here"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:13Z 42.8K followers, [---] engagements

"@james_roe Tried [---] codex yet"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:29Z 43K followers, [---] engagements

"@james_roe Sure but at the end of the day if you're a business and you have problems that can be solved with software the economic value of a human engineer helping you solve them has gone down dramatically. Doesn't mean there won't be human engineers but the number will be low I think"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:53Z 42.8K followers, [--] engagements

"@nicobaogim I can review what the agent did in the thread It even runs the tests in the thread. I don't think we need PRs for that"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:14Z 43K followers, [--] engagements

"@eSquareDesign Why not skip the tickets then"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:14Z 43.5K followers, [----] engagements

"@johncrickett Like why have the ticket system as a backlog when. the tickets could be prompts and be executed immediately Instead of having a backlog of tickets you'd have a backlog of code"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:58Z 43.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Very very good http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/help-know-history http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/help-know-history"
X Link 2025-12-25T18:23Z 43.9K followers, 1.3M engagements

"Amp has a new agent mode. It uses GPT-5.2-Codex. Time to let deep work. https://ampcode.com/news/deep-mode https://ampcode.com/news/deep-mode"
X Link 2026-01-28T16:23Z 43.8K followers, 57K engagements

"Someone please solve auth for agents"
X Link 2026-02-07T12:56Z 43.9K followers, 43.4K engagements

"Why do I go to another textbox on GitHub and write what I want and then go to my agent textbox and say "now implement this ." and link to GitHub when I could've just put the text into the agent in the first place You don't have to watch it You can just let it run. And why do I need PRs and CI The agent runs the tests and confirms things work. Why do I then need a PR and CI Waste of time. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022292242627535124 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022292242627535124"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:50Z 43.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@iamgrandala @ashrealite Apparently you didn't watch the video fully or didn't read the tweet. I never said "push 100x of those shits to master" I said that I think it's insane to keep the tooling we have for how we will develop software in the future"
X Link 2026-02-14T05:37Z 43.9K followers, [--] engagements

"@sudomateo I think we agree then GitHub issues are the start but surely not the final form"
X Link 2026-02-15T06:47Z 43.9K followers, [--] engagements

"This is what I've been working on the last few weeks here at Sourcegraph. Will share more very soon. But. there is already a podcast. If you want to find out where programming is going come with us. https://t.co/uB9duKocR8 If you want to find out where programming is going come with us. https://t.co/uB9duKocR8"
X Link 2025-04-02T15:11Z 43.9K followers, 28K engagements

"Because you want them to be effective. If you can have robot vacuums in your house do you want chairs around that the robot gets stuck in That way you have to put up the chairs every time you want to vacuum. (Ask me how I know.) Remove everything that can get them stuck. @thorstenball I've listened carefully to the podcast and the idea of optimizing for agents and it feels very counterintuitive: why would we optimize for the cheapest most scalable part of the system @thorstenball I've listened carefully to the podcast and the idea of optimizing for agents and it feels very counterintuitive:"
X Link 2026-02-09T05:48Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

"me: you can use cat to look at a file or read_file tool gpt-5.2: rg -n "" filename me: uhm okay cool"
X Link 2026-02-09T08:18Z 44K followers, 81.4K engagements

"gpt-5.2-3 really makes you think: huh if I describe what I want well enough it'll do it. When I review the code they write it's essentially like reviewing another trusted colleague's code: you focus on big picture but no nitpicks. Strange that it's actually happening"
X Link 2026-02-10T05:54Z 44K followers, 23.3K engagements

"This algorithm here is like a TV that detects when you've stayed on a channel for 10sec and then morphs every other channel into a copy. "Oh you like animals Gotchu. The next [--] channels in either direction will show an animal as soon as you switch." It's a bubble maker"
X Link 2026-02-10T10:56Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

"There's no way to tell anymore whether something's a big deal or not. Saw a single tweet about a ski crash Now here's [---] tweets about it. Is this the most important news in the world It is for you now"
X Link 2026-02-10T10:57Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

"It's very very strange because you now lose track of the relative importance of something"
X Link 2026-02-10T10:58Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

"nice nice nice supports Amp I built a thing Ask multiple agents the same question get back independent answers and let your main agent synthesize them. One npm install. It uses your local CLIs and writes markdown. The interesting part is when the models disagree https://t.co/CHBcJRXOpc I built a thing Ask multiple agents the same question get back independent answers and let your main agent synthesize them. One npm install. It uses your local CLIs and writes markdown. The interesting part is when the models disagree https://t.co/CHBcJRXOpc"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:00Z 44K followers, 12.6K engagements

"I bet "a while ago" is "a few months" probably less than [--]. A while ago I made a game maker app for my son. It was a running game and a voice record button. He could speak to edit the game. After around five prompts the code would be completely derailed and I'd have to go in and fix it. I don't think that would be necessary these days. A while ago I made a game maker app for my son. It was a running game and a voice record button. He could speak to edit the game. After around five prompts the code would be completely derailed and I'd have to go in and fix it. I don't think that would be"
X Link 2026-02-11T09:54Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

"There's a lot in this single screenshot about what it means to work in software right now"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:40Z 44K followers, 12.1K engagements

"I chose "research-grade intelligence" and then ask what speed I have to set on the treadmill to run 5:30min/km"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:43Z 44K followers, 11.7K engagements

"Honestly I think my life would be 23% better (roughly) if I could add env vars at the end"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:18Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

"The magic of podcasts is that I really want to try Ramp. And I don't even have any receipts"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:45Z 44K followers, 16.5K engagements

"Holds up doesn't it This is what I've been working on the last few weeks here at Sourcegraph. Will share more very soon. But. there is already a podcast. https://t.co/BfXbam0S8S This is what I've been working on the last few weeks here at Sourcegraph. Will share more very soon. But. there is already a podcast. https://t.co/BfXbam0S8S"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:52Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

"Blows my mind whenever I remember that some teams still use ticket systems. Why wasn't the ticket a prompt"
X Link 2026-02-13T07:26Z 44K followers, 40.5K engagements

"@marcelfahle If a customer tells me about a bug why submit a ticket first Why not start the Amp thread instead and already have the AI working on it Ticket systems were built because you needed to keep track of the things you couldn't do right now. But now you can start working on them"
X Link 2026-02-13T07:42Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

"I now honestly think that most engineers who still think that agents will be plopped into existing software development loops - tickets push to GitHub run CI review a PR merge a PR - aren't thinking far enough ahead"
X Link 2026-02-13T10:48Z 44K followers, 716K engagements

"@denniskortsch We push to main we take bug reports and turn them into prompts we don't have code reviews because a GPT-5.2 can review better than we can we don't do PRs "
X Link 2026-02-13T11:05Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

"@brinkin You get it"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:02Z 44K followers, 16.5K engagements

"@_coenen Yeah I wonder why. Not enough tokens spent"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:16Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

"Yeah. I never said that it's wrong to do so now I said "who still think that agents will be plopped into existing ." i.e. if you assume that in a year from now you'll still write GitHub tickets and then paste the URL to agents and they then open PRs and you review them then you're not thinking far enough ahead"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:19Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

"@ambivalentcase How many engineers at the average software company handle downtime Percentage-wise"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:23Z 44K followers, [---] engagements

"@_coenen Try 5.3-codex-xhigh"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:33Z 44K followers, [---] engagements

"@Ciberon Dude have you seen what 5.3-codex-xhigh can do"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:54Z 44K followers, 10.7K engagements

"@PaulMaddison121 Cost will go down efficiency will go up. Have you tried 5.3-codex"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:57Z 44K followers, [---] engagements

"@andrewdex Yep so: you use Codex [---] then you open a PR (or does the agent do it) then another agent reviews your code then. you click the button Don't you see the trajectory Do you really think you'll click those buttons in the future"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:27Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

""I am the bottleneck now" Few more thoughts I now honestly think that most engineers who still think that agents will be plopped into existing software development loops - tickets push to GitHub run CI review a PR merge a PR - aren't thinking far enough ahead. I now honestly think that most engineers who still think that agents will be plopped into existing software development loops - tickets push to GitHub run CI review a PR merge a PR - aren't thinking far enough ahead"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:00Z 44K followers, 978.3K engagements

"Follow-up: https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2022310010391302259 "I am the bottleneck now" Few more thoughts https://t.co/IhvGqHUHtU https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2022310010391302259 "I am the bottleneck now" Few more thoughts https://t.co/IhvGqHUHtU"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:04Z 44K followers, 60.5K engagements

"@nicobaogim I'd say that in the last [--] months I've spent more tokens than 99.99% of software engineers worldwide. I haven't had only a single amazing experience. Your problem is that you don't know what my job is"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:48Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

"@Samhanknr Oh really Tell me more"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:30Z 44K followers, [---] engagements

"@rvtond I agree. 5.3-codex one-shotted stuff that crossed [--] network/project boundaries without running tests/CI once"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:34Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

"Very good post Today @thorstenball said he's the bottleneck. I too am the bottleneck and it made me think. https://t.co/FIwf1zAMU7 Today @thorstenball said he's the bottleneck. I too am the bottleneck and it made me think. https://t.co/FIwf1zAMU7"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:07Z 44K followers, 11.4K engagements

"@who_____knows Have you tried 5.3-codex-xhigh Opus 4.6"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:48Z 44K followers, [---] engagements

"@cootiejuice lol"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:55Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

"Follow-up to follow-up: My intention was NOT to say "let's just pipe ALL things from Slack to the product and push to main". What I meant to say was: it is possible with these very good models to often ship things without even reviewing the code it's strange how the humans have turned into copy&pasters between agents the models will get better and that means you need less and less reviews and ultimately you only will need to decide What gets built and When and whether you like the end result or not. And my main point is: in that future it seems insane to think that people will manage"
X Link 2026-02-14T05:45Z 44K followers, 10.8K engagements

"Yes. I never meant to say "I'll take myself fully out of the loop" see here: What I meant to say was: the tools we have right now assume humans are a much wider/longer bottleneck but we're moving towards a future where you can trust models to get things right as long as you specify what you want. And a lot of stuff is auto-specifiable. And Linear/GitHub/. don't look like they're built for this future. https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2022547604374966426 Follow-up to follow-up: My intention was NOT to say "let's just pipe ALL things from Slack to the product and push to main". What I meant to"
X Link 2026-02-14T07:59Z 44K followers, [---] engagements

"This is a fantastic 15min summary. Agree with everything 100%. This week we celebrated @OpenClaw Conf in Vienna. 🔥 One thought stuck with me. We're entering a world where custom software is normal. Everyone has their own insta-coder their own personal appstore. Soon software will exist on the fly only when you need it. Just for one https://t.co/J1zcCzRg9D This week we celebrated @OpenClaw Conf in Vienna. 🔥 One thought stuck with me. We're entering a world where custom software is normal. Everyone has their own insta-coder their own personal appstore. Soon software will exist on the fly only"
X Link 2026-02-14T08:12Z 44K followers, 19.5K engagements

"The question isn't whether AI matches the very best engineer you know. It's whether it's better than the average engineer. https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-curiosity-74 https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-curiosity-74"
X Link 2026-02-15T07:27Z 44K followers, 26.8K engagements

"@schteppe Where did I say you should do something "instead" of CI Nowhere. What I said was: plopping agents into existing loops (of which CI is one part) won't be the end state in the future"
X Link 2026-02-15T09:40Z 44K followers, [---] engagements

"@TinoWening Where am I advocating for anything"
X Link 2026-02-15T10:16Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

"Sorry but that's horseshit. Going from "narrative framing is never neutral" to "advocating". What I see as the tiger is AI. What I see is people on here saying "code was never the bottleneck haha this is all old news" and "AI can't do what John Carmack can do" and implying or sometimes even explicitly saying that this won't change software development as an industry. And I'm saying: you can't judge what AI is going to do to this industry by looking at extreme outliers. AI will change software the industry fundamentally because it's better at writing code than the average developer. It's"
X Link 2026-02-15T10:56Z 44K followers, [---] engagements

"An LLM can outpace an average developer in syntax and boilerplate but it possesses zero architectural taste or causal reasoning. Engineering is a series of trade-offs made under business constraints; AI is currently just high-velocity stochastic synthesis. How many average engineers can make business-informed tradeoffs You and I both know that there are A TON of engineers who do not care one bit about the business they're in nor the customer that uses their software. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022998399121793251 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022998399121793251"
X Link 2026-02-15T11:36Z 44K followers, [---] engagements

"I'm not saying "everything is changing" because I work on Amp. I'm working on Amp because everything is changing. The question isn't whether AI matches the very best engineer you know. It's whether it's better than the average engineer. https://t.co/KFFRuBygFY https://t.co/l48s6G6Wia The question isn't whether AI matches the very best engineer you know. It's whether it's better than the average engineer. https://t.co/KFFRuBygFY https://t.co/l48s6G6Wia"
X Link 2026-02-15T14:24Z 44K followers, 14K engagements

"@olafurpg Don't Chinese models break this system"
X Link 2026-02-15T14:30Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

"Sometimes handoff between the two MacBooks works flawlessly. I move my cursor to the edge of the screen and it appears on the other computer's display. "Magic" I think. Then other times it suddenly stops working or never starts to work. No clear reason why nothing"
X Link 2026-02-15T15:58Z 44K followers, [----] engagements

"@IanLandsman I have a work MacBook and a private MacBook. It's a pain to switch between them to be honest :("
X Link 2026-02-15T16:12Z 44K followers, [---] engagements

"@plattenschieber Strictly speaking this is not the oracle but another powerful orb in the Amp cosmos"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:44Z 40.8K followers, [---] engagements

"@rsms @filpizlo I bet But how representative is that of the average programmer's day"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:59Z 40.8K followers, [---] engagements

"Am I losing it or. wasn't there a way to easily push articles from Readwise Reader to Kindle on iOS"
X Link 2026-01-27T19:10Z 40.8K followers, [----] engagements

"A lot of criticism of agents sounds like "the drill is putting the holes in the wrong place""
X Link 2026-01-28T08:00Z 40.8K followers, [----] engagements

"@seflless Wait are you saying that I'm gen-z I'm turning [--] on Monday Francois"
X Link 2026-01-28T11:16Z 40.8K followers, [----] engagements

"All credit goes to @nicolaygerold and @sagtanih. They shipped this and wrestled GPT-5.2 into this new mode. Great work"
X Link 2026-01-28T16:24Z 40.8K followers, [----] engagements

"I've had it setup a new IR reader that's connected via USB to my Raspberry Pi after nothing but a short "hey I got a new ir reader on my powermeter can you make it work here's a random pdf I found" It wrote Python scripts to figure out the baud rate it asked me to move the sensor it got the results it wrote scripts to send the data to Prometheus it built me Grafana dashboads it built me Home Assistant dashboards it built me a script that sends the data to Google Sheets in 5-10min. I'm 100% certain that's roughly 10x faster than what I could've done. But even if it was as fast as I am: I was"
X Link 2026-01-28T18:04Z 40.8K followers, [--] engagements

"@r00k @nicolaygerold It automatically does it in the background while you run it"
X Link 2026-01-28T18:22Z 41.3K followers, [--] engagements

"@nicolaygerold @r00k I forgive you because you're so young https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM"
X Link 2026-01-28T18:42Z 41.3K followers, [---] engagements

"@markacianfrani Midjourney"
X Link 2026-01-29T04:50Z 40.8K followers, [--] engagements

"Guess which agent lets you not worry about all that stuff That's right starts with A ends with Mp. http://ampcode.com You dont need a bunch of MCPs and skills. You dont need a customized TUI with tons of plugins. You dont need custom sub agents and Ralph loops. You just need to prompt better. http://ampcode.com You dont need a bunch of MCPs and skills. You dont need a customized TUI with tons of plugins. You dont need custom sub agents and Ralph loops. You just need to prompt better"
X Link 2026-01-29T07:20Z 40.8K followers, 11.5K engagements

"Based on the reactions I think a lot of folks are missing that you can manually invoke skills in Amp. (It's the second sentence in that post but easy to miss.) You invoke them & send a message. Agent will then use skill. We're removing slashing custom commands in @AmpCode. Use skills instead. https://t.co/Uq8OXAsABi https://t.co/3gHZ8jUO9M We're removing slashing custom commands in @AmpCode. Use skills instead. https://t.co/Uq8OXAsABi https://t.co/3gHZ8jUO9M"
X Link 2026-01-29T16:45Z 40.8K followers, 23.9K engagements

"@fiddyresearch @badlogicgames Skills can also be user invoked: https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2016915517735395453 Based on the reactions I think a lot of folks are missing that you can manually invoke skills in Amp. (It's the second sentence in that post but easy to miss.) You invoke them & send a message. Agent will then use skill. https://t.co/OvOp60XIDI https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2016915517735395453 Based on the reactions I think a lot of folks are missing that you can manually invoke skills in Amp. (It's the second sentence in that post but easy to miss.) You invoke them & send"
X Link 2026-01-29T16:45Z 40.8K followers, [---] engagements

"@alexellisuk @sqs @AmpCode @slicervm Are they putting the ( and ) in They can also remove the [--] at the start"
X Link 2026-01-30T14:02Z 40.8K followers, [---] engagements

"Everything's changing and no one really knows where this is headed. That's what say internally constantly. The other thing we say: shipping is research. You need to hit reality with what you build. Combine both and you get this. amp's blog is mostly feature un-releases https://t.co/iQnXetg23g amp's blog is mostly feature un-releases https://t.co/iQnXetg23g"
X Link 2026-01-30T20:37Z 41.1K followers, 14.4K engagements

"You need to see this. I asked Amp to talk to the painter (which is actually Nano Banana) to generate sprites of the agg man. Yes I know how insane that sounds"
X Link 2026-01-31T10:22Z 41.1K followers, 12.8K engagements

"Something that'll never stop making me shake my head: A day hours sometimes minutes after something new is released people come out with the strongest widest-reaching opinions. I get the excitement but come on is the first impression really it"
X Link 2026-02-03T08:32Z 41K followers, [----] engagements

"@ykgup Sure it could. But imagine you write a programming language in your own dialect. You always have to explain that "yes this is TypeScript but I write it in YashScript a dialect. read /yash-script to see what it's about" It's a level of indirection"
X Link 2026-02-03T15:02Z 41.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@filpizlo You just made me listen to Megadeth for the first time seriously in [--] years"
X Link 2026-02-03T16:35Z 41K followers, [----] engagements

"@hmemcpy @filpizlo You're asking me that as if I hadn't seen Some Kind of Monster a few times :)"
X Link 2026-02-03T17:12Z 41K followers, [--] engagements

"Was listening to the @FoundersPodcast episode with Jimmy Iovine this morning. They talked about Napster and Streaming and how when Napster came out Iovine realized that "this is going to change everything." I see a lot of parallels to software"
X Link 2026-02-04T11:08Z 41.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@dimd00d Even in that case I'd like to know what my options would be and whether SWE morphs into something I could still do or whether I'll need another job"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:20Z 41.1K followers, [---] engagements

"No I think the most important thing to do is to figure out what the very best of these models are capable of. I think playing around with say local modals makes it easy to arrive at the wrong conclusions about what the future holds. Obviously I'm biased but if you're not working on software that uses a model I think you should just pick and focus on getting better results out of the very best models instead of figuring how to easily switch between [--] models. http://ampcode.com http://ampcode.com"
X Link 2026-02-05T05:06Z 41.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Look at pi Look at OpenClaw Look at their agentic loops. I don't want to use the word "trivial" because it sounds like I downplay what went into two amazing projects but I do think their agentic loops are "90% the model 10% cleverness". And people didn't think in March [----] that you can put a big fat model in a while loop and it'll rip through your codebase and deliver amazing results. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019280574259560715 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019280574259560715"
X Link 2026-02-05T05:22Z 41.1K followers, [---] engagements

":) It does sound like you aren't the type of engineer I had in mind when recording the video. Technical founders people working on agents working on evals and ai features of course you want to walk the frontier laterally. But as someone who wants to keep up to date and get an impression of where it's going Go to the very front. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019284313913573699 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019284313913573699"
X Link 2026-02-05T05:37Z 41.1K followers, [--] engagements

"@joachim_rei Use Amp and the latest frontier models put money in test it in a thousand ways. I wrote about that in my last newsletter in the intro"
X Link 2026-02-05T07:28Z 41.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@erayajk @AmpCode @sqs Have you tried the TUI yet"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:29Z 41.2K followers, [---] engagements

"In order to finally get into the habit of reading technical papers I've set myself the goal to read [--] of them in [----]. I'm at 14/50 right now and I feel like a kid in a candy store that it didn't realize existed. What are your favorite papers"
X Link 2020-03-02T19:23Z 43.9K followers, [---] engagements

"I wrote a blog post about the past [--] years. What I learned what I unlearned what I changed my mind on what I value and what I now ignore - after [--] years of working as a programmer. https://thorstenball.com/blog/2022/05/17/professional-programming-the-first-10-years/ https://thorstenball.com/blog/2022/05/17/professional-programming-the-first-10-years/"
X Link 2022-05-17T14:00Z 43.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Thanks @danieldides for changing my life. Tools - Preferences - Automatically detect Markdown"
X Link 2023-03-23T09:48Z 43.9K followers, 102.6K engagements

""just GeoGuessed a terminal screen""
X Link 2023-05-25T05:06Z 43.9K followers, 33.1K engagements

"Google Docs now has variables Wow Does someone have an explanation for what happened with Google Docs For years and years it seemed stagnant and since what last year there's all these new very nice features popping up on a regular basis. I need the inside story here"
X Link 2023-06-27T10:15Z 43.9K followers, 472.1K engagements

"As of a few minutes ago: Zed is open source 🥳 Zed is now open source Our mission is to revolutionize developer collaboration building the world's best code editor in the process. After working together in Zed as a small team it's time to scale up to transform Zed into a collaboration platform. https://t.co/CeZyfLucWJ Zed is now open source Our mission is to revolutionize developer collaboration building the world's best code editor in the process. After working together in Zed as a small team it's time to scale up to transform Zed into a collaboration platform. https://t.co/CeZyfLucWJ"
X Link 2024-01-24T17:08Z 43.9K followers, 55.1K engagements

"This was a very cool morning. Comment-driven development. Someone on HN said that Sublime's find-all-matches is fast and Zed's is slow. @as__cii and I then spent 2hrs & optimized the code. Got it down from 1.07s to 4ms"
X Link 2024-01-25T12:04Z 43.9K followers, 133.5K engagements

"I wrote about that 1s-to-4ms optimization we did in Zed again. I just can't shake those 4ms out of my head"
X Link 2024-02-17T15:31Z 43.9K followers, 216.9K engagements

"This book will turn [--] this year. [--] And it still seems to bring people joy :) This is actually A REALLY GOOD BOOK thanks @thorstenball https://t.co/WxdINHRoQD This is actually A REALLY GOOD BOOK thanks @thorstenball https://t.co/WxdINHRoQD"
X Link 2024-02-29T17:29Z 43.9K followers, 28.1K engagements

"You keep asking us: Linux when Here's our first answer"
X Link 2024-05-07T15:00Z 43.9K followers, 138.4K engagements

"It's the Year of Zed on Linux on the Desktop Linux when Linux now. 🎉🐧 For the last [--] months our team and our open source community have been working hard to bring Zed to Linux. As of today we've released our first official stable build of Zed on Linux https://t.co/WbptRrpkQw https://t.co/ijLK9ndGy3 Linux when Linux now. 🎉🐧 For the last [--] months our team and our open source community have been working hard to bring Zed to Linux. As of today we've released our first official stable build of Zed on Linux https://t.co/WbptRrpkQw https://t.co/ijLK9ndGy3"
X Link 2024-07-10T16:52Z 43.9K followers, 23.6K engagements

"Aww man what a thing to say these books changed my life https://t.co/xWn87JaXJY these books changed my life https://t.co/xWn87JaXJY"
X Link 2024-07-18T19:05Z 43.9K followers, 159K engagements

"One of the highest highs in programming: replacing a 3rd-party dependency with [--] lines of dumb boring code"
X Link 2024-08-04T13:06Z 43.9K followers, 45K engagements

"The book is [--] years old and I still get emails like this. Man"
X Link 2024-09-10T11:21Z 43.9K followers, 42.4K engagements

"This is going to sound very anti-intellectual but has anyone in the history of documentation ever said "fuck yes thanks for that diagram I prefer that over just [--] lines of examples""
X Link 2024-09-18T15:34Z 43.9K followers, 167.5K engagements

"Book I'd pay $100 for: The Technical Oral History of WhatsApp 2009-2014. Going from zero to [--] employees a distributed system with Erlang that serves [---] million users and a $20 billion acquisition"
X Link 2024-09-28T07:35Z 43.9K followers, 40.5K engagements

"Two days of hardcore programming this week. SSH connections Unix socket servers streaming prototype messages reconnect handling . all in async Rust. I think I wrote code for [--] hours straight today good stuff https://t.co/8tctQChm7X https://t.co/8tctQChm7X"
X Link 2024-10-01T15:55Z 43.9K followers, 49.2K engagements

"After a year of Rust this just gave me goosebumps"
X Link 2025-02-07T21:19Z 43.7K followers, 31.4K engagements

"Reminder for people over 30: you can now buy a USB stick with [---] GB () for [-----] EUR"
X Link 2025-02-18T05:38Z 43.9K followers, 177.1K engagements

"what the fuck @dhh I spent [--] years thinking /usr was user. Not Unix system resources. @dhh I spent [--] years thinking /usr was user. Not Unix system resources"
X Link 2025-03-14T10:56Z 43.9K followers, 260.3K engagements

"I truly believe that this is one of the hardest problems in software: How do you bubble up errors in a system so that the user can see them make sense of them and knows what to do It's so hard and I've bumped into it in nearly every project I worked"
X Link 2025-03-20T14:43Z 43.9K followers, 141.4K engagements

"I hope this guide makes it clear to more engineers that you need to learn how to use these tools. My neck muscles can't keep up with the head shaking I do when I see people who've spent months learning Vim give up on AI after their "fix this" prompt didn't work Anthropic just published best practices for using Claude Code and coding agents generally. The key is you must be open to adapting your prompts to "empathize" with the model. Every vendor tiptoes around this suggestion because it sounds like blaming the user. https://t.co/2RX1F3YpHd Anthropic just published best practices for using"
X Link 2025-04-19T11:19Z 43.9K followers, 42.8K engagements

"This post has been pinned to every virtual wall we have. @AmpCode ships. I would dare anyone to show me how they ship more. [--] releases in the last [--] hours. WHAT PLANET ARE YOU GUYS FROM @beyang @sqs https://t.co/yNehKm4Fmu @AmpCode ships. I would dare anyone to show me how they ship more. [--] releases in the last [--] hours. WHAT PLANET ARE YOU GUYS FROM @beyang @sqs https://t.co/yNehKm4Fmu"
X Link 2025-05-21T16:26Z 43.9K followers, 194.2K engagements

"One of the hardest thing in programming to me is coming up with a clean simple design. Getting something to work: relatively easy. Making it not feel uuugggh: super hard"
X Link 2025-06-02T14:42Z 43.9K followers, 19.8K engagements

"nbd just prototyping some ideas for a better Amp CLI"
X Link 2025-07-19T05:26Z 43.8K followers, 46.1K engagements

"and then she can play with her account I can play with mine done" So first I had to create kids account inside the Minecraft Launcher on her computer. That then required me having to login to my account too to approve hers. So far so good. That "worked" even though"
X Link 2025-08-26T05:14Z 43.9K followers, 132.4K engagements

"there were a ton of cookie banners and reloads and . It wasn't nice. But then I couldn't login with her account in the Ubuntu snap package minecraft launcher on her machine. I had to login [--] times () and every time I got further: login showed up then login succeeded then"
X Link 2025-08-26T05:14Z 43.9K followers, 124.5K engagements

"I had to create another account for her Microsoft account a Minecraft account and then finally on the fourth time the login even showed up in the launcher app. Then I had to try 2-3 times for the account to actually switch"
X Link 2025-08-26T05:14Z 43.9K followers, 115.2K engagements

"That email takes 5min to arrive in my account. In the mean time I see in my account that I can purchase credits for her. "Nice don't need to type in CC then" Buy [--] euros of credits. Then permission email comes through. "Yes I want to allow her to play Minecraft" But wait"
X Link 2025-08-26T05:14Z 43.9K followers, 94.2K engagements

"I boot up Minecraft on her machine and it says "You're not allowed to play Minecraft. Change this in your Microsoft account settings" Okay smart that I am I think: "this has to be because of age restrictions" But for the life of me I can't figure out how to enable this"
X Link 2025-08-26T05:14Z 43.9K followers, 156.7K engagements

"So I look in her microsoft account settings in mine in Minecraft (hers and mine) and can't find it. I google. I find desparate people in forums and reddit threads. I end up finding a link to a blog post that explains how to do it. Turns out each Microsoft account has an"
X Link 2025-08-26T05:14Z 43.9K followers, 77.5K engagements

"Xbox account that it's connected to. And you need to go to the parent's Xbox account and find the security settings and then select the kids account and say "yes allow multiplayer" I check the box restart Minecraft on her machine it still doesn't work"
X Link 2025-08-26T05:14Z 43.9K followers, 74.1K engagements

"30min of googling and trying to enable every permission go by - no luck. I get a feeling. I login to her account on my machine. Multiplayer is enabled. "Fuck what if the minecraft launcher caches permissions locally Let me log out of it and log back it""
X Link 2025-08-26T05:14Z 43.9K followers, 70.9K engagements

"But the minecraft launcher snap package on ubuntu is so broken that logging out doesn't work. The button just doesn't do anything. It's laggy as shit and then doesn't produce a result. I realize it's time to wipe the package. Google how to wipe a snap package. Run command"
X Link 2025-08-26T05:14Z 43.9K followers, 68.4K engagements

"Fans turn on for 5min while snap does some weird snapshot stuff ("oh no I hope it really wipes it") while it tries to delete it. It deletes it. I try to install the .deb package as per instructions. Doesn't work. Fuck. Okay snap it is"
X Link 2025-08-26T05:14Z 43.9K followers, 66.2K engagements

"Reinstall the snap package. Go through login again (my daughter has [--] "your login code" emails in her email inbox) reinstall the game start the game and. it works. But then 1.5hrs had passed and she went to bed"
X Link 2025-08-26T05:14Z 43.9K followers, 66.5K engagements

"Gooooooood morning"
X Link 2026-01-19T10:00Z 43.8K followers, 21.2K engagements

"Have to say this amount of 🔥 kinda caught me off guard when I opened page 299"
X Link 2017-07-30T16:28Z 43.9K followers, [----] engagements

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