# ![@thorstenball Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::414333187.png) @thorstenball Thorsten Ball

Thorsten Ball posts on X about in the, if you, slack, loops the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [social networks](/list/social-networks)  [finance](/list/finance)  [stocks](/list/stocks)  [countries](/list/countries)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  [gaming](/list/gaming)  [currencies](/list/currencies)  [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) 

**Social topic influence**
[in the](/topic/in-the), [if you](/topic/if-you), [slack](/topic/slack) #44, [loops](/topic/loops) #7, [github](/topic/github) #55, [future](/topic/future) #3532, [ai](/topic/ai), [money](/topic/money), [agents](/topic/agents), [oracle](/topic/oracle)

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@ampcode](/creator/undefined) [@sqs](/creator/undefined) [@nicobaogim](/creator/undefined) [@rsms](/creator/undefined) [@mitchellh](/creator/undefined) [@beyang](/creator/undefined) [@philippspiess](/creator/undefined) [@geoffreylitt](/creator/undefined) [@badlogicgames](/creator/undefined) [@nicolaygerold](/creator/undefined) [@james_roe](/creator/undefined) [@amadeus](/creator/undefined) [@ryancarson](/creator/undefined) [@pvncher](/creator/undefined) [@filpizlo](/creator/undefined) [@r00k](/creator/undefined) [@mitsuhiko](/creator/undefined) [@fire](/creator/undefined) [@sluongng](/creator/undefined) [@adamwathan](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/google) [Spotify Technology (SPOT)](/topic/$spot)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@beyang I suspect a large part of that is due to a lack of dependencies. Most intern projects I know of are decoupled and no decisions from and collaboration with other teams is needed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1320018314731585537)  2020-10-24T15:04Z 39.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Can someone write a New Yorker style article about corporate programming langs Knew about Salesforce's Apex but I only just found out about SAP's ABAP and I'm so fascinated. Not just the lang but also that there's devs on LinkedIn who only have corporate langs on their cv"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1635605458986864641)  2023-03-14T11:35Z 38K followers, 24.9K engagements


"Man using the internet on my phone has become unbearable. l feel anxious when I know I have to google something and then visit 3-4 pages: cookie banners that fill the whole screen and show up after 1-2s delay newsletter popups back-button rarely works re-renders"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1724391384356954370)  2023-11-14T11:38Z 38.8K followers, 614.1K engagements


"@TomDeneire CPU cache What do you get when you run the loop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1746809136774267369)  2024-01-15T08:18Z 36.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Day at the office. You know when someone says "all this time we could use" and points at 1.62ms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1752747321048072230)  2024-01-31T17:35Z 36.6K followers, 18.8K engagements


"My first act as CEO: copy Ghostty terminfo over to my newly-setup Raspberry Pi @thorstenball You're the CEO of Ghostty @thorstenball You're the CEO of Ghostty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1873982550349406359)  2024-12-31T06:40Z 38.8K followers, 18.3K engagements


"dude the graphics in these papers are amazing "A detailed and beautiful reply" vs. 😔 💔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1877732737601491055)  2025-01-10T15:02Z 40.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Pleasantly (and: guiltily) surprised by this pop-up in the Svelte tutorial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1891408663560294549)  2025-02-17T08:45Z 35.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Reminder for people over 30: you can now buy a USB stick with [---] GB () for [-----] EUR"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1891724018568552574)  2025-02-18T05:38Z 28.1K followers, 174.5K engagements


"The thing I'm working on is now able to change itself. Quite the feeling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1893939677109121063)  2025-02-24T08:23Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"But people who can write prompts reliably get better results than those who can't. I think of it like poker: sure there's luck but it's always the same people who play at the world series. Also: turn temperature down to [--] and learn the model. @thorstenball The main difference is that mastering vim has deterministic results whereas AI prompts have a fun random component on every attempt. Not getting reproducible results is most frustrating with the agents. There is no gradual refinement. Just better guessing. @thorstenball The main difference is that mastering vim has deterministic results"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1914199297219760279)  2025-04-21T06:07Z 37.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Crash boom pang meep meep wait what's that It's. pretzels filled with peanut butte No It's a new Joy & Curiosity after all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1921483035662290972)  2025-05-11T08:30Z 36.6K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1925226652365205774)  2025-05-21T16:26Z 37K followers, 194K engagements


"100% did not expect Enron to make an appearance like this when I started reading the post"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1929096955763810358)  2025-06-01T08:45Z 40.6K followers, [----] engagements


"https://openpipe.ai/blog/art-e-mail-agent https://openpipe.ai/blog/art-e-mail-agent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1929096975137267767)  2025-06-01T08:45Z 40.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@ProgramWithAi @lewis_b_metcalf Too slow I mean it's great but if you just want to check how something renders a 77ms bun run is hard to beat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1946150071961063483)  2025-07-18T10:08Z 39.4K followers, [---] engagements


"I'd love to see a chart of shell command popularity over time because I bet that usage of timeout has exploded with agents"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1959896458733211746)  2025-08-25T08:31Z 36.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@TommyFalkowski Ohh atuin should check for an AGENT env var or something and keep track of that that'd be sweet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1959910128708166074)  2025-08-25T09:26Z 36.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Amp's CLI is now a proper full-on TUI. Best part for me personally No more Ink no more flicker"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1962892799767883812)  2025-09-02T14:58Z 36.6K followers, 172.8K engagements


"So what is the answer here I'm really interested I want to build a bunch of demo apps. What's the definitive tech stack to start a new full-stack web app in What's the definitive tech stack to start a new full-stack web app in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1966183319625937102)  2025-09-11T16:53Z 39.1K followers, 80.5K engagements


"If you haven't used an agent to make modifications to a terminal program and then use tmux to let the agent test and inspect the running program. have you even lived Get better results from coding agents by speeding up the feedback loop with scripts + tmux https://t.co/Il4Rnf5ezW Get better results from coding agents by speeding up the feedback loop with scripts + tmux https://t.co/Il4Rnf5ezW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1968416152704410076)  2025-09-17T20:45Z 37.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Hey Neovim friends we've got some good news: You can now connect the Amp CLI to Neovim"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1973039614375141589)  2025-09-30T14:57Z 36.5K followers, 35K engagements


"Somewhere there's an AI researcher sitting right now thinking: "Hmm it would be better if the model replied with an emoji in front of each item in this list.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1973390317668720781)  2025-10-01T14:11Z 36.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@whoisjaylee @vaskkker Let me look I don't know what any of this is/means"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1973406550472503674)  2025-10-01T15:16Z 36.5K followers, [---] engagements


"What I'm trying to say: tune in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1973410316579987768)  2025-10-01T15:30Z 39K followers, [----] engagements


"Next Token Episode [--] https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YqKDNOmkZkJV https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YqKDNOmkZkJV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1973417751910948980)  2025-10-01T16:00Z 36.5K followers, [----] engagements


"100% Maybe I'll eat my hat but this is how I see it right now Building your own tools to orchestrate/automate some parts of the agenic workflow seems to be a natural step in the path to become an agentic engineer. Usually it's in month 2-4. And eventually you'll drop all of that again and just talk to it. Building your own tools to orchestrate/automate some parts of the agenic workflow seems to be a natural step in the path to become an agentic engineer. Usually it's in month 2-4. And eventually you'll drop all of that again and just talk to it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1976224756669309195)  2025-10-09T09:54Z 36.3K followers, 102.9K engagements


"Big big big BIG release this week. If you all keep your fingers crossed: Wednesday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1977774039193051247)  2025-10-13T16:30Z 36.3K followers, 169.4K engagements


"Here it is built on the Internet's best business model: Amp Free"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1978521150134079709)  2025-10-15T17:59Z 36.3K followers, 105.5K engagements


"The reactions people have to ads are very interesting. Some think it's cheap "ads are bad" "ads are evil" Others get the point "ah with ads you can finance the free tier interesting" I said this on stream a bunch yesterday but I do think ads are the Internet's business model. Yes ads have existed before the Internet. But the Internet I think has perfected the "I get this for free in exchange for ads" model. Look at Google (YouTube) look at Meta (Instagram) look at Spotify massive massive companies that are built on top of advertisements. Good advertisement too. That's what I have in mind when"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1978726298470977730)  2025-10-16T07:34Z 36.3K followers, 49.7K engagements


"And to be clear I've also had to think about it for a day or two: "ads" But then you look around and you realize how fucking crazy all of this is: people are spending *hundreds* of dollars of their *personal* money *per month* to use coding agents I remember when people got pissed off at SublimeText for showing a "hey want to get paid version"-popup every 20th restart or something. I remember when I once interviewed someone and asked them about their favorite dev tool and they said VSCode and I asked why and they said "because it's free" And now look at us. Hundreds of dollars per month"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1978735648430252512)  2025-10-16T08:11Z 36.3K followers, 57.6K engagements


"Good morning friends Busy inbox to wake up to :) [--]. No we don't only route to a "free" model [--]. It's free I had to put my credit card in yesterday to stop an outage [--]. It's going to stop being free very soon and we want Amp Free to still be free after that [--]. We have other models available that we want to use that aren't free but cheap [--]. We never said "advertisement for expensive frontier inference"; we said "advertisement + cheap tokens == free" [--]. Happy hacking with free tokens This is insane so basically they call it free usage from integrating ads only to route to a model thats free"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1979037259258068995)  2025-10-17T04:10Z 36.3K followers, 26.5K engagements


"Here it is To the sound of someone typing on a Bloomberg terminal and someone else saying "let me try" A new issue of Joy & Curiosity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1979815922744590534)  2025-10-19T07:44Z 36.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Here it is the Librarian Here's how I used it to upgrade a Rust dependency last week (successfully) Meet Amp's newest tool: The Librarian. Your cross-repo search assistant. The Librarian makes it easy to get clear and comprehensive answers to questions spanning beyond your current repo. https://t.co/gKEwJFzUQq Meet Amp's newest tool: The Librarian. Your cross-repo search assistant. The Librarian makes it easy to get clear and comprehensive answers to questions spanning beyond your current repo. https://t.co/gKEwJFzUQq"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1980311878552416529)  2025-10-20T16:35Z 36.5K followers, 29.5K engagements


"@nisten It's a dedicated subagent meaning: it doesn't take up context window from the main agent. It's specialized on searching GitHub"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1980540803790348695)  2025-10-21T07:44Z 36.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Sooo Amp Free got posted to ProductHunt and I got mentioned there and now all of my inboxes are full of spam and people wanting to sell me upvote-armies on ProductHunt. Is. ProductHunt a zombie town"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1980959828462743966)  2025-10-22T11:30Z 36.5K followers, 14K engagements


"It's come to my attention that some people here do not know that I have a newsletter a weekly one and that you can subscribe (and should and must) but that if you haven't already you can repent by clicking here and so on: https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-curiosity-59 https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-curiosity-59"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1982323313528701430)  2025-10-26T05:48Z 36.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Listen I'm being serious when I say I could post this image with a "Coming soon." above it and it would be about a product feature in Amp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1982498149269954911)  2025-10-26T17:22Z 36.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Whoever at WorkOS implemented this: Thank you thank you I bless you I bless your house your family the streets on which you walk thank you thank you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1982742657920303185)  2025-10-27T09:34Z 36.6K followers, 288.7K engagements


"@tyyyuuytttyyy That's on Google's side I think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1982806113314644308)  2025-10-27T13:46Z 36.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Man I use this so much. Great feature. One of my favorite things in the last few weeks: Handoff https://t.co/I6QHCQGFHP One of my favorite things in the last few weeks: Handoff https://t.co/I6QHCQGFHP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1983120831313023211)  2025-10-28T10:37Z 36.5K followers, 20.4K engagements


"Command palette let's go Pew pew pew We removed slash commands from Amp. Instead we now have a command palette. It's better in every dimension. This frees up the prompt editor and sets us up for more powerful features and workflows. https://t.co/l4WGqNxB97 We removed slash commands from Amp. Instead we now have a command palette. It's better in every dimension. This frees up the prompt editor and sets us up for more powerful features and workflows. https://t.co/l4WGqNxB97"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1983210329703104823)  2025-10-28T16:32Z 36.6K followers, 10.5K engagements


""What the fuck why are they already awake" Day [--] since Germany switched from DST to standard time and I still haven't adjusted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1983481383407542480)  2025-10-29T10:29Z 36.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Amp can now read other Amp threads Drop in the URL of a thread or @-mention it and Amp will then fetch the thread and extract relevant information. I'm very very excited about this. Imagine how many Markdown files we no longer need"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1983552628350210394)  2025-10-29T15:12Z 36.5K followers, 17.1K engagements


"In case you missed it yesterday (or ran into the thing where you couldn't update the editor extension because Azure was done and updates didn't go through for 5-6 hours): Amp can now read other Amp threads Drop in the URL of a thread or @-mention it and Amp will then fetch the thread and extract relevant information. I'm very very excited about this. Imagine how many Markdown files we no longer need https://t.co/s29jt3PWyo Amp can now read other Amp threads Drop in the URL of a thread or @-mention it and Amp will then fetch the thread and extract relevant information. I'm very very excited"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1983771766620057859)  2025-10-30T05:43Z 36.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Two terms that make me roll my eyes now whenever I see them: - Enshittification - Vibe Coding They're now wildcards to mean whatever someone wants them to mean. Completely useless"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1983788465545413051)  2025-10-30T06:50Z 36.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@amadeus See you did it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1983791118723772828)  2025-10-30T07:00Z 36.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@amadeus Wait Am I talking about the Enshittification of these two terms Enshittification of the word Enshittification"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1983791211065569600)  2025-10-30T07:00Z 36.5K followers, [--] engagements


"What I say there at the 3:00 marker I posted earlier in Slack and several people have told me to share it publicly. So there you go. Build Crew Live: Episode [--] Timestamps: 0:00 - @grahammcbain kicks off with introductions 2:30 - What have you changed your mind about this week 3:00 - @thorstenball on being more opinionated with Amp features 12:30 - @ryancarson on Gemini [---] Flash being underrated 21:30 - https://t.co/6E0MxY8Rb8 Build Crew Live: Episode [--] Timestamps: 0:00 - @grahammcbain kicks off with introductions 2:30 - What have you changed your mind about this week 3:00 - @thorstenball on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1983927783890784303)  2025-10-30T16:03Z 36.5K followers, [----] engagements


"This week in Amp: Review tool Command palette No more slash commands. Amp can read other Amp threads Workspace Entitlements Still-unannounced feature (quick reserve your name) Release the Kraken Decided to record another casual video :)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1984287643467907328)  2025-10-31T15:53Z 36.6K followers, 14.6K engagements


"How do you live a happy life How do you stay positive optimistic balanced when every day tens of times you're reminded that these cookie banners exist and you know nothing will ever change about them even though they're the peak of useless bureaucracy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1984504737652257064)  2025-11-01T06:16Z 36.6K followers, 10.7K engagements


"Okay let's hear it what does this emoji mean 🙏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1984995670499942859)  2025-11-02T14:47Z 36.6K followers, 27.4K engagements


"I'm not saying there's an internal competition BUT there is a button to Follow someone and . hey if you're already on my profile page anyway why not follow me to see my prompts show up for you We're all learning a new way to code with agents. Now you can see how other people actually use them. https://t.co/R1XC54rEcd We're all learning a new way to code with agents. Now you can see how other people actually use them. https://t.co/R1XC54rEcd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1985575885047476395)  2025-11-04T05:12Z 36.6K followers, 10.8K engagements


"My editor history of the last 1.5yrs is much less interesting than I think some people assume: Moving to Zed has kinda loosened the hold that Neovim/terminal-only editor had on me. I became more comfortable using a non-terminal application as editor. I spam cmd-s nowadays not :w. Weird. I worked on Zed in Zed loved it I went back to Sourcegraph worked on a TypeScript codebase with a VSCode extension. I need to dogfood. So I used VSCode to work on the VSCode extension We started to build Amp. It's a TUI and a VSCode extension. There's Svelte and svelte-kit too. VSCode extension requires"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1985623954795401257)  2025-11-04T08:23Z 36.9K followers, 28.3K engagements


"Show this to someone in "tech" in Germany and there's a 99% chance they'll go "well growth isn't everything" or "we would rather build sustainable businesses" or "that's just VC money being burned" or "wait till it comes crashing down again" An interesting trend we're noticing at Stripe: US startups are pulling ahead of their peers elsewhere. These charts show averaged revenue growth for software startups in each location. US startups typically grow somewhat faster than those elsewhere. However since mid-2023 US https://t.co/FWp6yUTUy9 An interesting trend we're noticing at Stripe: US"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1985698204965368084)  2025-11-04T13:18Z 36.6K followers, 15.3K engagements


"(I really really really wish there was a bigger sense of "we can do this too if we just try" instead of trying to find excuses why someone isn't necessarily better on some metric.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1985698409420828689)  2025-11-04T13:19Z 36.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@smokeybytes You think really the number of EU startups using Stripe is too small that there's no statistical significance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1985739966711021861)  2025-11-04T16:04Z 37.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Amp CLI now reads .amp/settings.json in your workspaces. That means besides other things: different MCPs per repo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1985751329592262944)  2025-11-04T16:49Z 36.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@mattzcarey You can beg yes You can also bribe But yes that seems sensible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1985783490424533213)  2025-11-04T18:57Z 36.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@mattzcarey Where would you put it in the repo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1985783551158292802)  2025-11-04T18:57Z 36.6K followers, [--] engagements


"I do my best work when it doesn't feel like work. And yet I keep telling myself that I need to do something that feels like work for it to be productive work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1987083327078342707)  2025-11-08T09:02Z 36.6K followers, [----] engagements


"I honestly love the way the ads look in our TUI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1987104305069899934)  2025-11-08T10:25Z 36.9K followers, 15.3K engagements


"I just walked 21km (13mi) in 3h53m with only a 5m break. My Garmin watch: "you are relaxing.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1987516121168191881)  2025-11-09T13:42Z 37.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Now I'm sitting in a coffee shop and ordered a *tea* Never not once in my life have I ordered a tea anywhere. (But I just had a coffee in the other freezing cold coffee shop and I'm now freezing cold and need something warm and want to work) Rollercoaster of a day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1988180575010931163)  2025-11-11T09:42Z 36.9K followers, [----] engagements


"The two greatest feelings in the world: [--]. Holding your newborn child for the first time [--]. Finally being able to reproduce that bug And honestly it's a toss-up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1988235904767373477)  2025-11-11T13:22Z 36.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Since when is *that* an icon for quoting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1988525905912754331)  2025-11-12T08:34Z 36.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@aliouftw Librarian is part of the lore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1988537117056668014)  2025-11-12T09:19Z 36.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Explaining concepts in diagrams exercises a different part of the brain it feels like than writing does. It's fun. Oh and Monodraw is awesome"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1988918379592204774)  2025-11-13T10:34Z 37.1K followers, 50.5K engagements


"Riding an agentic coding high right now. Everything works every prompt every idea. High on code baby"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1989027042785128539)  2025-11-13T17:46Z 36.9K followers, [----] engagements


"It explains how to think about the context window what the fundamental rules are and then walks you through how to add and remove context in Amp: Mentions edit & restore fork handoff thread references. There are a lot of diagrams:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1989364796068954581)  2025-11-14T16:08Z 37.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@AntoineGrondin JavaScript"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1989929690228736085)  2025-11-16T05:33Z 36.9K followers, [---] engagements


""Merle" "Don't call me Merle you know I do" "Merle" "What" "It's out" "What is" "Joy and Curiosity" "Oh hell I better" And it was at that moment that a hole opened up beneath them and swallowed Merle and Opie whole"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1989935723382763774)  2025-11-16T05:57Z 37K followers, [----] engagements


"One of my pet loves: using made-up XML tags when talking to models. In order to avoid escaping issues or keep quotes simple I'll often do something like this: "Any typos or grammar mistakes in this intro to my newsletter intro . /intro""  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1990598051510300986)  2025-11-18T01:48Z 37.4K followers, 10.5K engagements


"Amp's new default model: Gemini [--] Pro https://ampcode.com/news/gemini-3 https://ampcode.com/news/gemini-3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1990821112750481744)  2025-11-18T16:35Z 39.5K followers, 256.4K engagements


"Incredible: photo taken while I have good posture Hacking on Amp + Gemini [--] + other stuff https://t.co/2U74cVEn6w Hacking on Amp + Gemini [--] + other stuff https://t.co/2U74cVEn6w"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1990851986959253762)  2025-11-18T18:37Z 37.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Number of screenshots of bug reports in Slack messagesemails that I sent to Gemini [--] that turned into a bug fix: incredibly high"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1990883529933172807)  2025-11-18T20:43Z 37.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Now I can say publicly what I've been saying internally for the last week: "If you'd asked me one month ago I never would've said that I can believe Google will someday have the #1 coding model" But here we are. Amp's new default model: Gemini [--] Pro https://t.co/r1N5ajBDfs https://t.co/usTk30ufuV Amp's new default model: Gemini [--] Pro https://t.co/r1N5ajBDfs https://t.co/usTk30ufuV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1990896357129740403)  2025-11-18T21:34Z 37K followers, 11.3K engagements


"@nummanthinks You only tried Gemini CLI right Not Amp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1990896476218929452)  2025-11-18T21:34Z 37.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@stancld @AmpCode Yep scroll down here: There's instructions for how to use an older version of Amp https://ampcode.com/news/gemini-3 https://ampcode.com/news/gemini-3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991171759119491106)  2025-11-19T15:48Z 37.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Lots of outages and rate limit issues with Gemini [--] this morning. We're working on it. Meanwhile: you can use Sonnet [---] to get your work done in Amp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991191292152336676)  2025-11-19T17:06Z 37.3K followers, 28.4K engagements


"@mattramostech @sqs Not yet we didn't have early-access to it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991271033756872722)  2025-11-19T22:23Z 37.2K followers, [---] engagements


"- Bad at following instructions. When I tell it to present me a proposal first it just goes and modifies code. Feels worse than early versions of Claude. Really In Amp it even surprised me by NOT modifying code when I thought it would and instead it presenting me with an option to fix the bug by changing a config file"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991289029225238976)  2025-11-19T23:34Z 37.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@PhilippSpiess Hmmm I'd have written that differently if I didn't want it to change code to be honest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991294354191970449)  2025-11-19T23:55Z 37.1K followers, [--] engagements


"This is very interesting. Sonnet [--] immediately came back with a reply and didn't write any code Gemini [--] went and researched and then started to modify the code. I used it on a settings.ts we have in our repo. The prompt arguably doesn't make a lot of sense but still tested it: Gemini [--] Sonnet [--] But if I use my usual "do not write any code" then Gemini [--] doesn't write any code: I guess I'm also noticing that I would've written the prompt differently to start with. https://ampcode.com/threads/T-16c2e4ac-d04a-43e9-ac89-8adad3f533c6"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991296273941688457)  2025-11-20T00:03Z 37.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Asked Amp to use the Librarian to look at Ghostty to figure out how it spawns shells. Have to say: I'm a sucker for this formatting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991302733530558740)  2025-11-20T00:29Z 37.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@geoffreylitt @sqs @AmpCode Do you want to try something we have in "beta""  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991326340579275157)  2025-11-20T02:02Z 37.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@_dhamidi @geoffreylitt @sqs @AmpCode (He added you to the beta Geoffrey. It's not a joke 😃)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991335362476523829)  2025-11-20T02:38Z 37.2K followers, [--] engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991339859521441946)  2025-11-20T02:56Z 37.4K followers, 20.9K engagements


"@eclbg @_dhamidi @geoffreylitt @sqs @AmpCode Want to try"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991466399353757873)  2025-11-20T11:19Z 37.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@PhilippSpiess Strange I'll take a look"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991467554662179238)  2025-11-20T11:23Z 37.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@rntn_onx @sqs We've only been supporting a single model ever as the main agent and making that as good as possible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991468804317270287)  2025-11-20T11:28Z 37.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@rntn_onx @sqs http://ampcode.com/models http://ampcode.com/models"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991474183583433105)  2025-11-20T11:50Z 37.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@PhilippSpiess Hmmm I think I could get this prompt to work with Gemini but I'd have to rewrite. What's your expectation That GPT5 prompts work as is with Gemini"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991482452972564747)  2025-11-20T12:23Z 37.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@PhilippSpiess There's a chance that if you had sent me thag message I'd have missed the Google MCP stuff too 😃"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991507088175153466)  2025-11-20T14:01Z 37.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@PhilippSpiess Yeah I get that. And I understand the frustration. I guess my point is: different models need different prompts and "like you would talk to a colleague on Slack" doesn't always lead to the best results with models"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991517921559159181)  2025-11-20T14:44Z 37.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@amadeus Ohh we could do that very soonish I think :)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991561777088458842)  2025-11-20T17:38Z 37.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@GGumptionn nice what university"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991561827822739860)  2025-11-20T17:38Z 37.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Here's our recap of the Gemini [--] rollout in Amp. Sorry about the issues you might've run into we'll do better next time. But even though there were issues I don't regret this at all. I truly think Gemini [--] is a fantastic model and worth it. Its been [--] hours with Gemini [--] in @AmpCode. The model is impressively good but the rollout wasnt as smooth as we wanted it to be. Here are the issues weve seen: [--]. Capacity issues and related early stopping (now resolved and monitoring) [--]. Thinking leaks [--]. Repetitive Its been [--] hours with Gemini [--] in @AmpCode. The model is impressively good but the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991563729776046402)  2025-11-20T17:46Z 37.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@badlogicgames More here: https://x.com/sqs/status/1991563112290607422 Its been [--] hours with Gemini [--] in @AmpCode. The model is impressively good but the rollout wasnt as smooth as we wanted it to be. Here are the issues weve seen: [--]. Capacity issues and related early stopping (now resolved and monitoring) [--]. Thinking leaks [--]. Repetitive https://x.com/sqs/status/1991563112290607422 Its been [--] hours with Gemini [--] in @AmpCode. The model is impressively good but the rollout wasnt as smooth as we wanted it to be. Here are the issues weve seen: [--]. Capacity issues and related early stopping (now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991584221073445269)  2025-11-20T19:07Z 37.1K followers, [---] engagements


"I've got that orb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1991878096979669026)  2025-11-21T14:35Z 37.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Ah Nano Banana can fix it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1992541748652818813)  2025-11-23T10:32Z 37.2K followers, [----] engagements


"dude I asked Nano Banana to mark the hiking trail from A to B to C to D. On a shitty photo of a hiking map. It did it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1992835098023219392)  2025-11-24T05:58Z 37.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@gvrooyen I used Zoom for many many years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993035029195506006)  2025-11-24T19:12Z 37.3K followers, [---] engagements


"You can now try Opus [---] with us in Amp. We've been very impressed with it. This is big"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993039601301393786)  2025-11-24T19:30Z 37.8K followers, 94.1K engagements


"@stdoutput Yeah @nicolaygerold is collecting threads Would be good if you can share with support. I personally am happy with Gemini 3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993049612387590224)  2025-11-24T20:10Z 37.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Opus [---] added earthquakes and sparkles to my terminal using Metal shaders. Two messages from my side. https://ampcode.com/threads/T-2a455e0d-e105-48c7-8966-8222cd3fb933 You can now try Opus [---] with us in Amp. We've been very impressed with it. This is big. https://t.co/VVDi3YMzll https://ampcode.com/threads/T-2a455e0d-e105-48c7-8966-8222cd3fb933 You can now try Opus [---] with us in Amp. We've been very impressed with it. This is big. https://t.co/VVDi3YMzll"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993051851642880401)  2025-11-24T20:19Z 37.8K followers, 40.4K engagements


"@rsms Yeah it's fantastic I usually hate emojis in UI but I love that they put 🍌 in the UI just for this model"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993183154677686500)  2025-11-25T05:01Z 37.3K followers, [---] engagements


"It's been a friction point from the start but I'm really starting to think that attention management is one of the big challenges of agentic programming. And I'm talking about human attention"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993233371787673788)  2025-11-25T08:20Z 37.4K followers, [----] engagements


"I'm reviewing a PR with [--] changed files and [----] lines changed. Big sure but I wouldn't call it huge. Lots of small changes. And yet it takes 3.5s to open the comment box on GitHub and 3s to close it. On an M4 Max. It wasn't this slow even a year ago was it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993250084956631443)  2025-11-25T09:27Z 37.2K followers, 61.3K engagements


"@joelreymont Even just one agent what do you do while it's running"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993285150323753207)  2025-11-25T11:46Z 37.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@valyala I don't think page redraw performance has anything to do with AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993301452480196656)  2025-11-25T12:51Z 37.3K followers, [---] engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993344427868536848)  2025-11-25T15:42Z 37.4K followers, 17.1K engagements


"Dude this was magical. I had the agent add a feedback loop to the emulator so the agent itself can run a command in the terminal emulator and capture the GPU buffer in a PNG file which it can then look at. Then it knocked out a 2D renderer for box drawing characters. 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. https://t.co/C2B2d6M8W3 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. https://t.co/C2B2d6M8W3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993371883144704411)  2025-11-25T17:31Z 37.4K followers, 25.9K engagements


"@valerybugakov Check this out: https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993371883144704411 Dude this was magical. I had the agent add a feedback loop to the emulator so the agent itself can run a command in the terminal emulator and capture the GPU buffer in a PNG file which it can then look at. Then it knocked out a 2D renderer for box drawing characters. https://t.co/Srky1fk4Hz https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993371883144704411 Dude this was magical. I had the agent add a feedback loop to the emulator so the agent itself can run a command in the terminal emulator and capture the GPU buffer in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993575222629613782)  2025-11-26T06:59Z 37.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Still thinking about this. This was so good. It just flew through the code. Feedback loops man they're game changers. https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993371883144704411 Dude this was magical. I had the agent add a feedback loop to the emulator so the agent itself can run a command in the terminal emulator and capture the GPU buffer in a PNG file which it can then look at. Then it knocked out a 2D renderer for box drawing characters. https://t.co/Srky1fk4Hz https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993371883144704411 Dude this was magical. I had the agent add a feedback loop to the emulator so the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993575336051888617)  2025-11-26T06:59Z 37.5K followers, 13.4K engagements


"@refactorordie What dashboard do you mean (You can rename threads in the web UI)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993636212590936166)  2025-11-26T11:01Z 37.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@synfinner Well it's not a thumb is it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1993664334225146297)  2025-11-26T12:53Z 37.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Another historic change just a week later: Amp now uses Claude Opus [---] by default"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1994034608413778386)  2025-11-27T13:24Z 37.9K followers, 152.7K engagements


"I know how cheesy it sounds but: I really wish Gemini [--] had worked for everyone as well as it worked for me. I'm not sure if I have a unique prompting style or what but it was amazing for me. For our users though Doom loops leaked thinking no instruction following. Another historic change just a week later: Amp now uses Claude Opus [---] by default. https://t.co/2gcZEE5Ryn Another historic change just a week later: Amp now uses Claude Opus [---] by default. https://t.co/2gcZEE5Ryn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1994061682625126646)  2025-11-27T15:12Z 37.8K followers, 100.7K engagements


"@ccccjjjjeeee @ryancarson @AmpCode Takes [--] days to get used to haha. Now I'm happy about it but we definitely need to change some UX around the limits. Internally I think majority of us is happy about only having 200k tokens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1994068184349937680)  2025-11-27T15:37Z 37.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@Niyxuis [--] times in [--] months That's nothing in JavaScript land"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1994086245098512610)  2025-11-27T16:49Z 37.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Putting the Agentic Harness On (Proto-Agentic Period ca. 193090)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1994101381607903422)  2025-11-27T17:49Z 37.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Asking Amp to debug something with me in a container and . isn't it crazy that it chooses the sleep timeout pretty well based on what it's doing Sleep 15s when installing something sleep 2s when checking a version"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1994280111470747895)  2025-11-28T05:40Z 37.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@JebsSteve0x1 I wouldn't read the docs first for a bug inside Bun. The Librarian is built specifically for searching and researching code on GitHub. No it wouldn't look for docs. But possibly the main agent would"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1994360908512968832)  2025-11-28T11:01Z 37.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Midjourney's web interface might be the greatest argument against "it's just a wrapper" it's so good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1994372050459488521)  2025-11-28T11:45Z 37.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@fire @sqs It's kinda. the same thing but inside out Flipped around I think the issue here is that you don't have enough credits left for the handoff prompt to be generated (which uses a specifically prompted model for that)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1994385758606549273)  2025-11-28T12:39Z 37.4K followers, [--] engagements


"It's Friday so I'm going to be blunt and ask directly: You do know that you can click the orb in Amp right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1994385937510637827)  2025-11-28T12:40Z 37.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@unconed Nice that's impressive. I only came across a few weeks ago now I see your Use.GPU and I'm wondering: should I start hacking on something with WebGPU :) https://docs.swmansion.com/TypeGPU/ https://docs.swmansion.com/TypeGPU/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1994396209302421862)  2025-11-28T13:21Z 37.4K followers, [--] engagements


"The text on the splash screen now reflects the orb's glow. The shockwave-on-click also ripples over. (Opus [---] is impressive.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1994414061224697971)  2025-11-28T14:32Z 37.8K followers, 13.7K engagements


"@xeophon_ Well ChatGPT is "a wrapper" around GPT models and it does feel like the model is front and center. Midjourney basically makes the model disappear and even if I could have access to the model directly I'd want to use their webinterface. Doesn't hold for ChatGPT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1994414732820832729)  2025-11-28T14:35Z 37.4K followers, [---] engagements


"I love Nano Banana Pro. Impressive model; amazing amazing name. But whenever I want to use it I have to "Link API Key" which I never () had to do in any other product and here I have to do it every time. And I have to look for the "New Chat" button. Every time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1994660473812521402)  2025-11-29T06:51Z 37.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@whosmatu You built it Great work It's the best interface for creation in the context of GenAI I've seen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1994699729976885274)  2025-11-29T09:27Z 37.4K followers, [--] engagements


"First-person POV shot looking straight down the east face of the Watzmann near Berchtesgaden down to the Knigssee. Foreground shows a pair of climbers' hands covered in white chalk gripping a small crimp in the rock and climbing shoes smearing on the wall below. A dizzying drop to Knigssee thousands of feet below. Tiny boats on the Knigssee with the meadow and the small church seen close to the lake. Shot on a GoPro Hero [--] wide-angle fisheye lens 4k hyper-realistic harsh sunlight high contrast vertigo-inducing. First-person POV shot looking straight down a sheer vertical granite cliff face"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1995111482019717329)  2025-11-30T12:43Z 37.8K followers, 14.4K engagements


"Very interesting that it included St. Bartholom and the typical boats (only those boats are allowed on the Knigssee)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1995111824946028990)  2025-11-30T12:45Z 37.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@xlab_os It should be disabled when we detect that animations don't work. Which program"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1995356894211313738)  2025-12-01T04:58Z 38K followers, [--] engagements


"I mean yeah sex is cool (I guess) but have you ever pinged the RaspberryPi sitting in your rack at home via Tailscale while. . flying through the sky"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1995430065694535983)  2025-12-01T09:49Z 38K followers, 300.2K engagements


"@nilskch Pinging the Raspberry Pi flying through the air while you're on the ground or having sex with your Raspberry Pi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1995435914047463804)  2025-12-01T10:12Z 38K followers, 11.8K engagements


"What I've been saying in many conversations this year: A *lot* of developer tooling built in the last decades basically had one goal (if you boil it down): reduce the amount of code a programmer has to write by hand. Libraries frameworks compilers . But what if writing code by hand isn't a bottleneck anymore (Shut it people who say that it never was the bottleneck we both know what I mean.) What if generating code even in small scope say 200-500 lines is cheap and fast now How does that change developer tooling Yes the second order effects will be surprising Yes the second order effects will"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1995506657644732812)  2025-12-01T14:53Z 37.9K followers, 66.8K engagements


"(Wrote about this here before: https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/a-new-kind-of-code https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/a-new-kind-of-code"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1995506750938865754)  2025-12-01T14:54Z 37.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@chiefnoah13 Not so sure. Some dev tooling is okay with having a few bugs. Think: internal eval dashboard admin panels test result viewers data analysis dashbaords storybooks . We have all of these and nothing was written by hand and it works and it does the job"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1995522951912026214)  2025-12-01T15:58Z 37.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@fire @sqs I think I know what's going on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1995765584181555688)  2025-12-02T08:02Z 37.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Big day for this guy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1995772362403229973)  2025-12-02T08:29Z 37.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Turns out you can do a lot in the terminal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1996155667418116110)  2025-12-03T09:52Z 38.1K followers, 143.2K engagements


"@AriesTheCoder You tell me where it's going"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1996159888297234894)  2025-12-03T10:09Z 37.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Seriously though how cute are those scrollbars Love our TUI framework"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1996204237408350667)  2025-12-03T13:05Z 37.8K followers, 66.7K engagements


"It does And mouse shapes too. Cute But does it have sub-cell mouse drag and easing animation https://t.co/6s8RGBzZTm Cute But does it have sub-cell mouse drag and easing animation https://t.co/6s8RGBzZTm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1996214854957347088)  2025-12-03T13:48Z 38K followers, [----] engagements


"@0KoDRHDjzu9wipE It's part of the CLI and a new feature Lewis is working on to show clusters of threads. http://ampcode.com http://ampcode.com"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1996228502236823716)  2025-12-03T14:42Z 37.8K followers, [----] engagements


"So far no one has replied with "It's a Unix system I know this" Turns out you can do a lot in the terminal https://t.co/5ZRvTvmPn5 Turns out you can do a lot in the terminal https://t.co/5ZRvTvmPn5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1996460397868855427)  2025-12-04T06:03Z 37.8K followers, 10.2K engagements


"Maybe we should go all in Amp is becoming its own company. It's time to find out where all of this is going. https://t.co/MCuwF1lxV5 Amp is becoming its own company. It's time to find out where all of this is going. https://t.co/MCuwF1lxV5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1996485702041907232)  2025-12-04T07:44Z 37.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Put another mark on the "Things I never would've done without agents" board: I added a new table couple weeks back in which Amp thread data is indexed. It's updated whenever a thread is updated. Problem: I didn't write a migration to backfill the data because it required code execution and I was a bit lazy. But now I really want that historical data and I want to get the feature out so. I asked Amp to build me a one-off migration worker that I can start & stop & monitor in our admin panel. It did it in two threads. In the first one it built me an admin panel in which I could hit "process"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1996945797565354259)  2025-12-05T14:12Z 37.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Mind you: I didn't tell it how to desig this UI nor how that stuff should work. I pointed it at the files I let it explore then I specified what I want. Amp nailed it. Lots of stuff coming together: subagents feedback loops "  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1996946806148583747)  2025-12-05T14:16Z 37.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@xlab_os Is there an env var I can detect We usually check for SSH etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1997378788418564104)  2025-12-06T18:53Z 38K followers, [--] engagements


"@xlab_os It's significantly slowed down for SSH though. Maybe we need to slow it even more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1997563003622064395)  2025-12-07T07:05Z 37.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Don't miss out Only a few weeks left to say "I subscribed to Register Spill back in [----] before it really took off" this is most packed newsletter Joy & Curiosity so far. I opened almost all links. this is most packed newsletter Joy & Curiosity so far. I opened almost all links"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1997599858656674226)  2025-12-07T09:31Z 37.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Happy to hear that :) It's a lot of fun to think about "what if context was a first-class entity in this agent and not just a collection of Markdown files" That's what we have with Amp threads now: reusable context. Amp now lets you find past Amp threads. You can say "which thread created this file" and Amp will find it and let you extract context from that conversation. git blame but for Amp threads kind of. I'm biased because I built it but I love using it. https://t.co/0sfgoGYJex Amp now lets you find past Amp threads. You can say "which thread created this file" and Amp will find it and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1998260527227707668)  2025-12-09T05:16Z 38K followers, [----] engagements


"Someone who has an Eames Lounge Chair please tell me that they're super uncomfortable especially for reading or typing on a computer sitting on your lap. (I just saw one and again began to think that my life would only be complete if I had one.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1998333345973866672)  2025-12-09T10:06Z 38K followers, 15.5K engagements


"@ccccjjjjeeee REALLY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1998349614236279166)  2025-12-09T11:10Z 38K followers, [---] engagements


"My teammate @lewis_b_metcalf wrote about why he loves short threads in Amp and how he manages them. Read it it's great: https://ampcode.com/200k-tokens-is-plenty https://ampcode.com/200k-tokens-is-plenty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1998431414417506573)  2025-12-09T16:35Z 39.4K followers, 92.8K engagements


"@amadeus You can hold down shift right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1998978372530221423)  2025-12-11T04:49Z 38K followers, [--] engagements


"@amadeus We try to keep config options as small as possible because it makes everything easier and faster the less you have of them so. hesitant here 😃"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1999001357840429082)  2025-12-11T06:20Z 38K followers, [--] engagements


"The German urge to add "my" in front and "24" at the end of every software product. http://myAmp24.de http://myAmp24.de"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1999080604407840791)  2025-12-11T11:35Z 38.2K followers, 25.9K engagements


"@yashasvigirdhar @adrianResler Withings scale. Not sure how reliable it is though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1999455879046005235)  2025-12-12T12:26Z 38.7K followers, [---] engagements


"I'm using Amp on my Raspberry Pi on which I run Home Assistant and a bunch of other stuff. It just helped me setup everything I need so I can connect my Garmin watch to Home Assistant: certificates configuration JSON schema. Didn't write a single line. It's magical"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1999745368796373391)  2025-12-13T07:37Z 38.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@sgjarmak Wait I need more info. Zepbound"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1999905027083894871)  2025-12-13T18:11Z 38K followers, [--] engagements


"Wait images in the terminal Yes. @toolmantim put them into the Amp CLI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2000909919785283978)  2025-12-16T12:44Z 38.6K followers, 36K engagements


"6:10am ask ChatGPT to explain some graphs to you "Why 91% cache hit rate is the 'knife edge'" "This is the 'wait what' moment" "Youre operating on a cost cliff not a plateau." Calm down man good lord"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2001521043907981579)  2025-12-18T05:12Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Tim wrote about how he took his hands off the wheel and let Amp write 90% of our TUI framework. And he suspects that's why Amp now rips through our codebase. https://ampcode.com/by-an-agent-for-an-agent https://ampcode.com/by-an-agent-for-an-agent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2001686082862145565)  2025-12-18T16:08Z 38.8K followers, 100.1K engagements


"When I consider that I write my newsletter Slack messages notes prompts blog posts mysterious messages product announcements . I think that in [----] I had the highest words/week output rates of my life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2002270050833580360)  2025-12-20T06:49Z 38.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Here it is to the thundering sound of the best Christmas song of all time (Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You keep your letters) the final issue of the year number sixty-seven a new fresh written at sunrise Joy & Curiosity. https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-curiosity-67 https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-curiosity-67"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2002636285429895208)  2025-12-21T07:04Z 38.7K followers, 16K engagements


"I think I'm going with the Rode PODMIC (Update for all the fellow audio aficionados) Which microphone sounds best https://t.co/ZQUciKAXNP Which microphone sounds best https://t.co/ZQUciKAXNP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2002801506152759678)  2025-12-21T18:01Z 38.5K followers, 40.2K engagements


"@theo Doesn't the Scarlett 2i2 act as a preamp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2002965008746176620)  2025-12-22T04:50Z 38.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@theo Ha See this is what I suspected that it's underpowered. Thank you I'll dig into some things (can still return everything). Any recommendations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2002970029575528931)  2025-12-22T05:10Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@arikfr @AmpCode It's something else but it'll show up here: and @AmpCode will tweet it out https://ampcode.com/chronicle https://ampcode.com/chronicle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2003019172528402517)  2025-12-22T08:25Z 38.2K followers, [--] engagements


""Porsche of agentic coding tools" now that's something I'll keep quoting sorry in advance A personal recap of [----]. It was a year of a new style of engineering. Left some ideas for what might come next. https://t.co/EqlSqF5c4c A personal recap of [----]. It was a year of a new style of engineering. Left some ideas for what might come next. https://t.co/EqlSqF5c4c"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2003045715430486153)  2025-12-22T10:11Z 38.9K followers, 19.9K engagements


"Exercise: Write a small agent give it that tool see how often the model uses it. Then write a furious system prompt. Then see how often the model uses it. Then you're enlightened"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2003347195635044750)  2025-12-23T06:09Z 38.7K followers, 58.9K engagements


"Sometimes I get replies here that make me wonder whether it isn't AI. I'm never 100% sure so I don't ask because I don't want to offend. Trapped in the uncanny valley. (Only posting this because I didn't get a reply in 10min and so won't offend anyone by sharing this.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2003379986661879968)  2025-12-23T08:19Z 39.1K followers, 12.9K engagements


"Yes this. A lot of programmers really seem to struggle with the fact that this isn't deterministic programming. You can't say "use this tool whenever you see X" and expect it to work in 100% 90% or even 50% of cases. @thorstenball an under appreciated point is how hard it is to get an agent to do something out of distribution no matter how much yelling the human does @thorstenball an under appreciated point is how hard it is to get an agent to do something out of distribution no matter how much yelling the human does"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2003511937133609267)  2025-12-23T17:04Z 38.5K followers, 16K engagements


"@MichaelNStruwig The model won't use it if it isn't trained to do it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2003544848025170299)  2025-12-23T19:14Z 38.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Told you before but here I am again: Amp for home sys admin stuff is incredible. Started it on my RPi4 said that the RPiZero should be pushing data via MQTT why is nothing showing up in Grafana It went ahead debugged everything on both machines found the issue fixed it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2003782802169540729)  2025-12-24T11:00Z 39.4K followers, [----] engagements


"me: can we add an API to this Amp: sure we can add a little endpoint me: ahh shucks it's a static site on Netlify Amp: we can use a Netlify function. want me to do it --- Maybe biggest benefit for me: agent does stuff I could've done but am just too lazy to do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2004196084273631690)  2025-12-25T14:22Z 38.7K followers, [----] engagements


"My 4-year-old got a doll that can "pee for real" and guess who has peed on the couch three times already for real"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2004211690616062401)  2025-12-25T15:24Z 38.7K followers, 10.6K engagements


"@fatih Yup I rarely write code by hand anymore. It's an exception so much so that I notice it. And yes everything's wide open and changing and there's a lot to explore and learn and share and build - which is kinda out Amp mission :)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2004880007156658333)  2025-12-27T11:40Z 38.7K followers, [----] engagements


"A lot of mind-blowing paragraphs in this one but these two I highlighted and pulled out. Nuts https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/two-years-cormac-mccarthys-death-rare-access-to-personal-library-reveals-man-behind-myth-180987150/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/two-years-cormac-mccarthys-death-rare-access-to-personal-library-reveals-man-behind-myth-180987150/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2005157572597481620)  2025-12-28T06:03Z 38.9K followers, 39.5K engagements


"Take the lyrics of Dr. Dre's [----] hit song Still D.R.E. but rewrite them to be about me having spent probably 10/12 months this year reading Robert Caro books and that I'm still only 50% through second one and make it so the line is Still C.A.R.O"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2005175193812267240)  2025-12-28T07:13Z 38.7K followers, [----] engagements


"One thing I struggle with tremendously when writing about agents and programming with agents: What's old news for some people is cutting edge for others and the What and Who change every four weeks. Example: feedback loops. If I write about feedback loops for agents I know that some of you will go "yes duh of course" and others will go wide-eyed and say "what do you mean feedback loops" (or probably not say anything at all) Or then someone with authority will say "this is all bollocks" and people will believe them and then it turns out that Person with Authority also hasn't updated their"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2005189747220664445)  2025-12-28T08:11Z 38.7K followers, 21.2K engagements


"@RoryWalshWatts Only read Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses which one would you recommend next"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2005336270768419089)  2025-12-28T17:53Z 38.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@JustDeezGuy I wouldn't say that's an accurate summary but I also wrote it down in one go (didn't use AI.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2006005132379705614)  2025-12-30T14:11Z 38.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Why does the ChatGPT macOS application put the close button here It trips me up every time I have one of these pop-ups"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2006065481942257767)  2025-12-30T18:10Z 38.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Lately Ive stopped listening to music or podcasts when I go for walks. No earbuds no sound except nature's. I call it Walking the Rawdog"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2006073044784275635)  2025-12-30T18:40Z 38.7K followers, [----] engagements


"I'm not sure whether this started with GPT-5 but the models in ChatGPT now always suggest follow-ups like: "Want me to create a full report that you can send to the tax office" And man I always feel bad when I leave them hanging and close the tab"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2006782701349838856)  2026-01-01T17:40Z 38.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@tsenart @camden_cheek @AmpCode Yeah 20% is a lot I have 10% with no MCPs and http://AGENTS.md http://AGENTS.md"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2006797609923654074)  2026-01-01T18:40Z 38.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Passkeys man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2008824994344898791)  2026-01-07T08:56Z 38.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Used this [--] times today to invoke the tmux skill right at the start If you are like me you don't want to wait on the agent to invoke a skill; just trigger it yourself. https://t.co/NuB5utIZ5y If you are like me you don't want to wait on the agent to invoke a skill; just trigger it yourself. https://t.co/NuB5utIZ5y"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2008936274481045841)  2026-01-07T16:18Z 39.3K followers, 11.9K engagements


"After the holidays you might be ready for agents but is your codebase"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2008952560305229937)  2026-01-07T17:23Z 39.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@wblazer_ @_mgriisser Yeah but the UX sucks because you first need to unlock 1password and then Chrome and iOS and whoever also want to inject their shit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2008960602920899044)  2026-01-07T17:55Z 38.9K followers, [--] engagements


"This algorithm is far too aggressive. You click on one tweet and now it's [--] other tweets related to that tweet. Stare at a single photo for five seconds no matter the emotion and that's what you'll see for two days. Like something In a week you'll still read about it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2008973208213705065)  2026-01-07T18:45Z 39.5K followers, 43.7K engagements


"Big big big release $10 per day up to $300 per month usable with Opus [---]. Supported by ads. If you don't want free credits you can turn it off. Opus [---] is free in Amp (up to $10/day) https://t.co/bzCtHP6iV5 https://t.co/uKRIDoym0g Opus [---] is free in Amp (up to $10/day) https://t.co/bzCtHP6iV5 https://t.co/uKRIDoym0g"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2009511040640221443)  2026-01-09T06:22Z 39.4K followers, 63.7K engagements


"It's been illegal right from the start. Question is why they tolerated it for nearly a year and start cracking down now. I assume they care about whether the sub is used inside their client or not is because they're losing money on those subs but in exchange they get users of their product they can build a relationship with (and later upsell or show other products too etc.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2009569175128150042)  2026-01-09T10:13Z 38.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@bythewayimchris How big are your messages Chris I shipped a feature earlier for $5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2009620355011256663)  2026-01-09T13:36Z 39.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@olraleads @grok The catch is that we present you with ads. See: https://ampcode.com/news/amp-free-frontier https://ampcode.com/news/amp-free-frontier"  
[X Link](https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2009628112200314975)  2026-01-09T14:07Z 39K followers, [--] engagements

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