Amp is free. Not because we subsidize usage, but because we arbitrage good, cheap and available tokens, use new OSS models, and use ads to cover our costs. It's the best free coding agent that will never rug pull you.

@jc_coder1 @AmpCode Yes tons. I’ve been an early adopter of most of the major ones, and I really love Charm’s Crush - it’s open-source and really really pretty (for a command-line app that’s a wild claim to make, but it really is). I’ve also written my own rapid prototyping agent that uses Kimi K2

I ultimately think this is a good thing. The league has been terrible with transparency, the whole hearted embrace of gambling has lead to some obvious consequences that they seem unprepared to deal with, and the integrity of the game has come up in question as a result. This is

Two game changers launched this week. 1. The Librarian 2. /handoff

@beyang In the “there’s a new, better, AI coding tool every week)” era, @AmpCode continues to feel like the most solid, reliable, always improving option and it’s not even close.

Handoff is INSANE. JK, I hate that crap. Handoff is a natural consequence of focused, iterative product development driven by customer feedback and data. > The data told us no one was using compaction. > User feedback made it clear that compaction didn't do what they thought

This is the way

Kind of an insane 2 weeks: > Launched Amp Free > Launched an Ads network > Launched The Librarian (new tool call for search and understanding code) > Killed compaction so Handoff could live > Finally checked off an oft-requested capability to edit / restore from the customer

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Truly free. Now's the time to try it!

We shipped a lot of stuff at @AmpCode this week: • The Librarian subagent • Faster, cheaper search agent • Edit/Restore/Fork in CLI • Improved toolboxes • Handoff! • Amp Free without using training data So I decided to record a short walkthrough of it all

Quality ad partners allow us to support Amp Free without collecting data for training. Amp is now the only coding agent to support free inference without training data collection. That means you can use it for work—spread the word!

Free, no training, a good product, and a sustainable business model? What isn’t there to love?

Giving the people at they want even when they don’t know what they want.

Oh shit this is what I didn’t know I needed, but intuitively I was so frustrated at compact for some reason. Now I know what I wanted 😭

You can’t compact long threads anymore in @AmpCode. You need to /handoff <objective-for-next-steps>, which preserves the right context and keeps threads smaller and focused.

Tools are essential to any working agent. Now being able to quickly create your own tools, next level.

If you're coding with agents every day, I think you'll enjoy this episode :)

i loved the take by @thorstenball on ads and business models. the (google maps) reference was a gem. @AmpCode is freaking awesome product.

Compaction does encourage laziness, essentially letting you give up on your context window. Given how precious the context window is, that's a bad idea. Handoff instead of compact solves this elegantly

Ajay Bhargava (@0x1F9ED) shares his latest projects and a reality check on winning arguments.