We just shipped live video chat for your orbs and threads in @AmpCode.
Go to the new 'space' tab and you'll enter a shared space where you can chat with your team!
Have you spun up an orb to run a weekly dashboard to measure the feature you just shipped?
I have!
In orbs, in portals, shareable URLs, on a weekly automation timer. It's on-demand software and it's a ton of fun.
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I love this.
The future is an explosion of creative activity as everyone builds the software they care about.
Great job @beyang !
Amp co-founder @beyang predicts code as the next truly creative medium:
"What is under-hyped is the creative potential of humans that this is gonna unlock. We've just scratched the tip of the iceberg. One of the things we're gonna see soon is the emergence of code as a truly creative medium."
"When you think about creative stuff, you think about video. You put stuff on YouTube. I make music, I share my SoundCloud. Or I post on X, I'm sharing my writing with the world. We don't really think about code that way. Code is like, oh, I wanna build an application. Let me go build out a team."
"Now writing code is so easy. I built a simple game for my kid at home to play that's a little bit educational because we're trying to get him to learn more spelling and basic math. This is a thing I wanna share with other parents in our group chat. It's qualitatively different from anything you've been able to do from shipping software ever before."
"Every human now has the potential to project their creative inspiration into a piece of functioning software. That's the opposite of humans are obsolete. Humans are gonna move to the forefront, more than ever before."
@AmpCode
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Will be on MTS Live today at 2pm PT to talk about orbs, models, and what we're seeing on the Amp team right now in terms of how building software is changing!
You can now @ mention your teammates in Amp, and chat right there in the thread.
Pass your orbs!
But, isn't the 'isn't X just Y' argument just words arranged in a familiar pattern?
I asked an orb to create a video of a feature to make sure it was correct frame-by-frame. I got this...
Am I living in a Kafka story?
Love this! Portals open up so many opportunities for one-off, bespoke, experimentation / debugging type applications.
Reminds me of what I wrote about in but way more powerful.
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How fast can the microphone start recording reliably, across all devices/browsers?
Amp made me a custom debug app in a portal for me to run on 9 different platform combos to find out, so we can improve Amp's dictation.
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How fast can the microphone start recording reliably, across all devices/browsers?
Amp made me a custom debug app in a portal for me to run on 9 different platform combos to find out, so we can improve Amp's dictation.
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This is a fun workflow for quick iteration: create a dashboard for experimenting with many combinations to quickly get a sense for what works, and play around with it in the portal.
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Why I think the harness is no longer what provides the most leverage.
This is very nice when you're pairing Amp with a GPT subscription, which is quite a lovely combination.
Link your ChatGPT subscription and the Dial adapts to it.
Instead of using Fable in the Oracle, Haiku in code reviews, and GLM 5.2 in low mode, it only uses OpenAI models.
No more token costs on top of your subscription.
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Link your ChatGPT subscription and the Dial adapts to it.
Instead of using Fable in the Oracle, Haiku in code reviews, and GLM 5.2 in low mode, it only uses OpenAI models.
No more token costs on top of your subscription.
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Portals in the orb are a big part of why I haven't reinstalled an IDE after my laptop reset. That was 6 weeks ago... can't go back now.
I don't need local dev anymore.
I was the last amp team member to go all in on orbs. I thought my local dev flow was good enough. It worked. I was incredibly productive. I didn't need a change.
But I forced myself into orbs. And I found there was a lot of friction that I can't even explain - subconscious stuff - like...I can't parallelize that because of some stupid reason. I don't *want* to parallelize that because how do I tell the model make a new worktree, but also it's going to suck running tests because you'll fight with 7 other agents over CPU so please run them only in your domain and some orchestrator will run the full thing?
Orbs eliminate the need for worktrees. They let me think more about my application and less about my resources...less about the "how".
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More in the orb!
You can now attach videos, PDFs, datasets, log files, and more, so Amp can use and see them in orbs.
Orbs have changed how I work to a degree which has been, frankly, completely unexpected.
Now, I couldn't go back, and we're still trying to piece together just why and how everything changed.
Read @thorstenball's piece on it - he does a great job of putting it into words.
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Everything has changed for us with orbs.
My biggest struggle right now is figuring out how to make you see what we see.
So I sat down and wrote about it:
I shipped one more improvement last night...data this morning shows orb startup as twice as fast.
I love perf work.
Fluid simulator flappy bird
