Adam Wathan
@adamwathan
Building at @shopify. Creator of @tailwindcss. Listener of Slayer. Austin 3:16.
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Building software in anything other than @AmpCode orbs feels like eating broken glass in comparison.
But it’s frustratingly one of those “you can’t understand why it’s better until you just use it” tools, a lot like Tailwind was.
Use it, and be ruined.
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Paper Mono!
sooo excited to finally release our free and beautiful mono font
it works incredibly well for design, coding, and even prose, and it’s packed with features: variable font weight, coding ligatures, duospacing (!) for long-form text, and more.
sound on:
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Setting up my dev environment for
1. @nikstep inviting me to @AmpCode
2. Connect to @ChatGPT
3. Ask it to explain the repo to me
Step 2 and 3 optional. Literally an Amp account was all I needed to start building. So good!
RIP local dev 🪦
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Seeing what they were working on here is what really made me realize what a great home Shopify would be for our team.
Incredible work by everyone involved, and excited to help push stuff like this further 🙌🏻
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When I built @kotn’s first store 12 years ago, I knew how to code and it still took me two weeks just to get to something OK, years to get to something I liked.
We built the tool I wish I had back then. Here’s Canvas.
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I shipped a change to a PHP 5 + Node 8 project the other night that would’ve been a nightmare without Amp and Orbs. As if I want to figure out how to install and run that shit in 2026.
With orbs it just worked, no configuration, it just figured out how to create an environment where everything ran and I could preview my changes effortlessly.
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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.
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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.
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Who do I know at GitHub?? Have an NPM ticket that’s urgent and need some help!
Hell is city driving for all eternity with your kid’s water bottle rolling around on the floor in the back seat.
@sebastienlorber I don’t think frameworks will have “fan bases” anymore, certainly nothing like it used to be. I think that whole thing is dead.
What are some interesting problems you’ve been able to restate as classification problems to solve with Jev?
Outside the box stuff that doesn’t seem like a classification problem at first.
Fun piece of history — Tailwind was extracted from a hosted checkout product I was working on back in 2017.
Sort of poetic to end up at Shopify almost 10 years later!
Big one today — Tailwind is joining Shopify 🛍️
.@AmpCode is consistently 3-4 months ahead of every other harness in terms of discovering and optimizing the next workflow leap, feels like their only disadvantage is not being a model company and not being able to subsidize tokens.
Insane to me that a model company hasn’t scooped them, would be a huge advantage now that most of the frontier models are equally capable.
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I’m thinking about banning Claude code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc.
Insisting on only reading CLAUDE.md sometimes leads to split brain problems when different team members use different tools. Just unnecessary.
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Last site on earth I expected to be a Tailwind site 😄
Really feels like the Cursor team saw the future when they first shipped the agents UI that everyone complained about.
Think we're going to see them recapture a lot of mindshare over the next few months.
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Started playing with @bot this week, first problem I'm using it to solve is automatically picking my lunches from Factor every week because any time I forget they send me stuff I don't like.
Becoming really easy to see how the way we use the web is going to totally change.
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Never would’ve had any success in business without the things I’ve learned from Jason over the past 10 years, cannot wait to read this.
After more than a year of labor, my book 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘴 has launched!
It's all my best ideas -- and best writing -- on how to grow your company with your existing budget and team.
And yes, I read the audiobook myself. :-)
𝗕𝘂𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁: You can buy cheaper bundles directly from me -- Kindle and Audiobook, or those plus the physical book -- from
𝗕𝘂𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻: It is available in paperback, Kindle, and Audible:
𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀: Skills that implement the ideas in the book as well as articles, more added all the time, at
I'm so proud of this and grateful to the many people who helped along the way, reading early drafts, challenging my ideas, and encouraging me to do it, and the 750 people who preordered the book, trusting that it would be worth it.
All your feedback and ideas are welcome, as usual!
(P.S. You know this already, but 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀 and 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 is extremely appreciated!)
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