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Microsoft just started enforcing their longtime license restriction on VS Code forks using more MS-published language extensions. Play this out a few more steps…

If you saw how people actually use coding agents, you would realize Andrej's point is very true. People who keep them on a tight leash, using short threads, reading and reviewing all the code, can get a lot of value out of coding agents. People who go nuts have a quick high but then quickly realize they're getting negative value. For a coding agent, getting the basics right (e.g., agents being able to reliably and minimally build/test your code, and a great interface for code review and human-agent collab) >>> WhateverBench and "hours of autonomy" for agent harnesses and 10 parallel subagents with spec slop

Anthropic just published best practices for using Claude Code and coding agents generally. The key is you must be open to adapting your prompts to "empathize" with the model. Every vendor tiptoes around this suggestion because it sounds like blaming the user.

Even amazon dot com is down. I don't recall that happening in past AWS outages. This must be a big one.

"There's a good chance that by the end of the year, people aren't using IDEs anymore." — Boris Cherny (Anthropic) Yes. The IDE is shrinking into a debugging and review tool for most devs most of the time. And the code host...who cares? Everything is changing, there is no moat.

MCP done right — What are the best-designed MCP servers, the ones with good tools (at the appropriate level of abstraction) and descriptions, good response text, good impls of prompts and resources, etc.? Please help me add to this list: - Playwright - PostgreSQL - Sentry - Linear

Amp: “Whoa. Another S-tier. Holy shit. ... They're devs that love agents and they're just building the best thing."

Amp Free: now with no training required, so you can use it at work. The Internet’s best business model (advertising) delivers once again: a $0 coding agent that meets the same stringent infosec standards of Amp’s paid `smart` mode.

We made Amp Free. It's powered by great tokens and tasteful ads. Agentic coding is now free for everyone.

my daughter typed this and told me I can't delete it, so I guess I need to commit it. good thing I taught her line comment syntax.

"There's a good chance that by the end of the year, people aren't using IDEs anymore." — Boris Cherny (Anthropic) Yes. The IDE is shrinking into a debugging and review tool for most devs most of the time. And the code host...who cares? Everything is changing, there is no moat.

Microsoft just started enforcing their longtime license restriction on VS Code forks using more MS-published language extensions. Play this out a few more steps…

Imagine your CEO, CFO, and Head of Eng looking at a list of your company’s top AI coding agent users, and you’re at the very top in usage and spend. Is that a good thing or bad thing at your company?

If you saw how people actually use coding agents, you would realize Andrej's point is very true. People who keep them on a tight leash, using short threads, reading and reviewing all the code, can get a lot of value out of coding agents. People who go nuts have a quick high but then quickly realize they're getting negative value. For a coding agent, getting the basics right (e.g., agents being able to reliably and minimally build/test your code, and a great interface for code review and human-agent collab) >>> WhateverBench and "hours of autonomy" for agent harnesses and 10 parallel subagents with spec slop

Even amazon dot com is down. I don't recall that happening in past AWS outages. This must be a big one.

We’ve been working with OpenAI over the last few weeks on GPT-5 in Amp. We’re still evaluating where and how to use GPT-5 (after all, it took 6 months to figure out 3.5 Sonnet’s true capabilities). Join us and try GPT-5 in Amp now:

What do you all think...should dev tools CEOs code? :)

MCP done right — What are the best-designed MCP servers, the ones with good tools (at the appropriate level of abstraction) and descriptions, good response text, good impls of prompts and resources, etc.? Please help me add to this list: - Playwright - PostgreSQL - Sentry - Linear

This is why a model selector doesn't make sense. 1. Make a tool-calling coding agent 2. Make the tools better 3. Some tools become subagents under the hood 4. Different subagents need different models 5. Maybe even their own models 6. So what would a model selector even select?

Anyone else switching back to (non-fork) VS Code? How'd it go?

Amp Free: now with no training required, so you can use it at work. The Internet’s best business model (advertising) delivers once again: a $0 coding agent that meets the same stringent infosec standards of Amp’s paid `smart` mode.

Fancy hotel: tiny room, uncomfortable desk, armless chair, weak fridge, $600/night Residence Inn: big room, comfortable desk, desk chair with arms, real fridge, $150/night What am I missing?

I sense a coming schism in coding agents. “bicycle for the mind” human-in-the-loop vs. “hours of autonomy” human-out-of-the-loop