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A lot of apps currently feel jank on the iPhone Duo and he estimates it might take 6 months on average to update them to be good.
Somehow I doubt it will take that long in this day and age…
PSA for big enterprises affected by any of today’s security insanity: Sourcegraph provides a way to apply remediations across all your organization’s repositories.
This saved many a Christmas during the log4j incident.
You’ll likely want this for what’s coming.
PHP released patches for two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, that could allow attackers to execute code remotely without authentication.
Finding every affected PHP version across hundreds or thousands of repos is a challenge. We're sharing Sourcegraph search queries and Agentic Batch Changes specs to help you find and fix #php2shell vulns.
Learn more: sourcegraph.com/blog/php2she…
Need help? Post a comment and we'll help you get Sourcegraph set up to find potentially affected repos and roll out patches.
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If you’re interested in joining, we’re hiring FDEs in Sydney and NYC right now:
ampcode.com/hiring/fde
You can orb from a plane, you can orb on the train.
You can orb from the lab—and even in your Cybercab!
Living in the future!
Was watching @MostlyTechPod in a cybercab, @IanLandsman brought up @AmpCode, realized I should be orbin’ instead
There’s no general web browser in a cab, so I left a comment on YouTube with the amp url which let me open it
It’s orbin’ time
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Amp can now (deterministically) Ask First before running certain MCP tools, like transfer_money or send_gmail.
(We talked in ampcode.com/podcast/season-0… how this kind of thing let us trust the agent to do a lot more, like granting credits and emailing users who hit bugs.)
The way we work has to keep up with what the technology is capable of. So much of software development best practices in the past 20 years was founded on axioms that no longer hold.
21 people, a single meeting a week, no quarterly goals, no pull requests, no mandatory code review, no titles (except one dictator), a hundred releases a day, bugs fixed in minutes, famous for killing features.
@sqs and @thorstenball on how the Amp team works:
I'll be speaking at this event organized by @exedev and @jana_iris at @sentry next week to share a bit about what we've found effective when working with agents and maybe some idiosyncratic viewpoints and demos. Hope to see you there!
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You can now assign tasks to Amp from Linear!
Very cool to see diffusion models emerging as another model architecture that could shake up the model landscape
A bold experiment
.@vanamerongen is going to lead a pretty wild experiment: turning dev-null.sh into the world’s first agentic social network
the idea: our users open issues directly on the app; those issues get picked up automatically by remote @AmpCode agents running in the cloud.. the agents dig in, propose a pull request, and then self-evaluate their own work.. if the fix is obvious and low-risk (think a small frontend change), it gets merged automatically
no human in the loop! let's see how far we can push it
A fun science fiction premise that occurred to me in the shower today:
What would the world look like if the transformer had been discovered during the mainframe era of compute? What would computers look like today? Would the mouse and keyboard and monitors still be the primary I/O devices?
Like steampunk but with AI.
The last half dozen talks Amp has given have all been from agent-coded mini-apps rather than traditional slideware.
It's easier, it's prettier, it's more fun, and the audience seems to like it. It costs a few tokens, but after you do the first, you can just fork it.
It's also a good way to see what agents are capable of now in a low-stakes environment.
Afterward we heard from @sqs, probably my favorite presentation of the event. Quinn leads @AmpCode, building one of the best coding agents in the industry with a team a fraction the size of their competitors.
Quinn says amp is “21 co-founders.”
I asked Quinn after his talk if this made them a “worker coop.” He thought this sounded too communist, but didn’t deny it!
Someone made an orb/orbit pun today, and I was reminded of this delightful book.
It's about navigating a large corporate environment while maintaining your creativity and sanity.
Amp is kinda trying to do this with our customers in real time for the age of agents.
