Would you prefer to save money with dial-up when your competitors are using fiber? Recorded on Hot Take Thursday, @sqs and @thorstenball are back with a new Raising An Agent. In this episode they discuss how cheaper models end up costing more, why they do not not wait for agents, running evals in Orbs, and the hot takes Thorsten left out of his X post last week. 00:00 Intro: Engineers who forget the history of technology 01:55 Hot Take Thursday & a €50-a-week token budget 05:14 Why cheap models cost more than frontier models 08:11 Token budgets & who gets priced out 14:06 Disrupt yourself with small teams & unlimited tokens 16:38 Agents go horizontal across the software lifecycle 20:56 Rollouts, bug reports & "I'm feeling Pucky" 23:53 Code review, monorepos & other walls around the agent 25:30 How to show a cautious company what agents can do 29:48 Why most people haven't seen what agents can do 31:57 Don't wait for your agent 33:38 Simple evals & agents testing agents in Orbs 38:27 Why Amp has runners too 40:47 Follow your energy & stay aligned 46:33 The hot take Thorsten left out 54:14 Do languages & frameworks still matter?

I am going to try and answer a bunch of questions that people have raised about Sign in with ChatGPT in the next couple of days. Before that, I want to let you all in to why we shipped Sign in with ChatGPT (SIWC) in the first place. Clarify our intentions here before getting to the specifics.

Would you prefer to save money with dial-up when your competitors are using fiber? Recorded on Hot Take Thursday, @sqs and @thorstenball are back with a new Raising An Agent. In this episode they discuss how cheaper models end up costing more, why they do not not wait for agents, running evals in Orbs, and the hot takes Thorsten left out of his X post last week. 00:00 Intro: Engineers who forget the history of technology 01:55 Hot Take Thursday & a €50-a-week token budget 05:14 Why cheap models cost more than frontier models 08:11 Token budgets & who gets priced out 14:06 Disrupt yourself with small teams & unlimited tokens 16:38 Agents go horizontal across the software lifecycle 20:56 Rollouts, bug reports & "I'm feeling Pucky" 23:53 Code review, monorepos & other walls around the agent 25:30 How to show a cautious company what agents can do 29:48 Why most people haven't seen what agents can do 31:57 Don't wait for your agent 33:38 Simple evals & agents testing agents in Orbs 38:27 Why Amp has runners too 40:47 Follow your energy & stay aligned 46:33 The hot take Thorsten left out 54:14 Do languages & frameworks still matter?

Hoy me pagué el plan de $20 en @AmpCode y con lo que hice para venderle a un cliente lo recuperé 25 veces. No tiene sentido. Básicamente le hice un %2400 en las primeras 2 horas de contratar el plan y todavía me queda 1 mes de uso.

Would you prefer to save money with dial-up when your competitors are using fiber? Recorded on Hot Take Thursday, @sqs and @thorstenball are back with a new Raising An Agent. In this episode they discuss how cheaper models end up costing more, why they do not not wait for agents, running evals in Orbs, and the hot takes Thorsten left out of his X post last week. 00:00 Intro: Engineers who forget the history of technology 01:55 Hot Take Thursday & a €50-a-week token budget 05:14 Why cheap models cost more than frontier models 08:11 Token budgets & who gets priced out 14:06 Disrupt yourself with small teams & unlimited tokens 16:38 Agents go horizontal across the software lifecycle 20:56 Rollouts, bug reports & "I'm feeling Pucky" 23:53 Code review, monorepos & other walls around the agent 25:30 How to show a cautious company what agents can do 29:48 Why most people haven't seen what agents can do 31:57 Don't wait for your agent 33:38 Simple evals & agents testing agents in Orbs 38:27 Why Amp has runners too 40:47 Follow your energy & stay aligned 46:33 The hot take Thorsten left out 54:14 Do languages & frameworks still matter?

Would you prefer to save money with dial-up when your competitors are using fiber? Recorded on Hot Take Thursday, @sqs and @thorstenball are back with a new Raising An Agent. In this episode they discuss how cheaper models end up costing more, why they do not not wait for agents, running evals in Orbs, and the hot takes Thorsten left out of his X post last week. 00:00 Intro: Engineers who forget the history of technology 01:55 Hot Take Thursday & a €50-a-week token budget 05:14 Why cheap models cost more than frontier models 08:11 Token budgets & who gets priced out 14:06 Disrupt yourself with small teams & unlimited tokens 16:38 Agents go horizontal across the software lifecycle 20:56 Rollouts, bug reports & "I'm feeling Pucky" 23:53 Code review, monorepos & other walls around the agent 25:30 How to show a cautious company what agents can do 29:48 Why most people haven't seen what agents can do 31:57 Don't wait for your agent 33:38 Simple evals & agents testing agents in Orbs 38:27 Why Amp has runners too 40:47 Follow your energy & stay aligned 46:33 The hot take Thorsten left out 54:14 Do languages & frameworks still matter?

If you are excited about Codex Cloud I am begging you to please use @AmpCode. It is so obviously the closest to what the future of building with agents (especially on teams) looks like. Threads are the new PR, and everyone on the team should be able to see them.

Plaid speed in Amp now runs GPT-6 Astra really really fast (6x speed). Great for situations when you're in a hurry and willing to pay a premium. You can toggle it on/off in an existing thread. Note: ChatGPT subscriptions do not yet support this.

If you are excited about Codex Cloud I am begging you to please use @AmpCode. It is so obviously the closest to what the future of building with agents (especially on teams) looks like. Threads are the new PR, and everyone on the team should be able to see them.