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Company blog · ampcode.com/newsaiprogramming
Amp is the company blog at ampcode.com, writing about ai and programming. Since 2025, 89 different Hacker News readers have linked it 159 times, most often “How to Build an Agent”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Amp is a coding agent and development environment built for the frontier. You can build anything in Amp, in orbs that let you run the agent without supervision from anywhere, or on your own machine with our CLI and runner.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Build an Agent16 people · 21 mentions · first linked 2025-04-15
- Show HN: Amp – a new AI coding agent focused on outcomes9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2025-05-15
- How to Build an Agent – Amp (2025)6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2026-02-11
- AGENT.md: The Universal Agent Configuration File6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-07-08
- Amp: Agentic Coding Tool by Sourcegraph5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-06-23
- A Codebase by an Agent for an Agent4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-12-18
- Agents for the Agent4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-06-10
- That's not SOC 2 compliant3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-08-13
- Context Management in Amp3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-11-14
- How I use Amp and how agents have changed how I program3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-05-15
What Hacker News says?
In other news - Amp Code is a separate company now - https://ampcode.com/news/amp-inc
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on “Anthropic acquires Bun”Submitted Orbs as a story · 116 points
HN discussionUsing small threads (see https://ampcode.com/@sqs for some of my public threads). If you use very long threads and treat it as a long-and-winding conversation, you will get worse results and pay a lot more.
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on “Claude Opus 4.5”Submitted Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph as a story · 90 points
HN discussionReminds of this one [1] that I read half a year ago, which I used to develop my first agent. But what fly wrotes is definitely easier to understand, how I wish it was written a year earlier. [1]: https://ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent
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on “You should write an agent”Submitted How to Build an Agent as a story · 38 points
HN discussionIt looks like it's going to be AGENT.md: https://ampcode.com/AGENT.md
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on “Kiro: A new agentic IDE”Submitted Amp Free as a story · 28 points
HN discussionNope,they use Agent SDK now https://ampcode.com/news/use-your-claude-plan
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on “OpenCode 2.0”Submitted How I use Amp and how agents have changed how I program as a story · 21 points
HN discussionit's actually by sourcegraph and it's been up since may. Here's where it used to go: https://web.archive.org/web/20250702163859/ampcode.com/agent... Here's their announcement https://ampcode.com/news/AGENT.md The openai thing is some recent partnership I'm guessing Interesting enough, Sourcegraph had agent.md which now 301's to agents.md (with the s).
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on “AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents”Submitted Free Agent – Amp as a story · 12 points
HN discussionGotcha - this is what I had in my history: https://ampcode.com/AGENT.md For me, that gives a 404 with no obvious way to get to https://agents.md , I think either a hyperlink or redirect would be nice to have as well.
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on “AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents”Submitted O3 in Amp as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThat draft RFC you mention is superseded by https://agents.md . Now that Amp uses AGENTS.md ( https://x.com/sqs/status/1957945824404729997 ), I made all the former agent file stuff on https://ampcode.com just redirect to https://agents.md .
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on “AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents”Submitted Amp: Gemini 3 Pro as default model as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThis is the classic blog post, by Thorsten Ball, from way back in the AI Stone Age (April this year): https://ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent It uses Go, which is more verbose than Python would be, so he takes 300 lines to do it. Also, his edit_file tool could be a lot simpler (I just make my minimal agent "edit" files by overwriting the entire existing file). I keep meaning to write a similar blog post with Pytho…
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on “Claude Skills”Submitted Amp, Rebuilt as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSeems similar to Amp's "toolboxes" from August: https://ampcode.com/news/toolboxes Those are nice too — a much more hackable way of building simple personal tools than MCP, with less token and network use.
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on “Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP”Submitted Amp Tab: fast and free AI suggestions for VS Code and forks as a story · 6 points
HN discussionBut is there a secret sauce in any of the coding agents (Copilot Agent, Windsurf, Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Aider, etc)? Sure, some have better user experience than others, but what if anything makes one "better at coding" than another? As this great blog post lays bare ("The Emperor Has No Clothes", https://ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent ), the core tech of a coding agent isn't anything magic - it's a set of L…
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on “OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B”Submitted Show HN: Amp – a new AI coding agent focused on outcomes as a story · 5 points
HN discussionClaude code does it. Goose does it. Cursor Composer (I think) does it. Thorsten Ball’s post does it in 400 lines of Go code: https://ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent Basically every other IDE probably does it too by now.
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on “How I program with agents”Submitted Amp Free, Agentic coding is now free for everyone. as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI must mention https://ampcode.com/manual which is my favorite toy of them all right now. Has almost no settings; uses Claude 4, no way to change model; just works! (Unfortunately, not a paid comment.)
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on “Cursor 1.0”Submitted AGENT.md: The Universal Agent Configuration File as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAmp recently achieved it. Apparently it's permitted as long as you use the Claude Agent SDK. https://ampcode.com/news/use-your-claude-plan
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on “Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default”Submitted How to Build an Agent as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAmp Code is also very good, they released about 2 weeks ago their Oracle feature which leverages o3 to do reviews ( https://ampcode.com/news/oracle ). Amp leans the closer to Claude Code more than other solutions I’ve seen so far, the team there is really leaning into the agentic approach. I watch the changes on Kilo Code as well ( https://github.com/Kilo-Org/kilocode ). Their goal is to merge the best from Cline &…
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on “Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf”Submitted Amp is now free to use when you bring your own compute and model subs/keys as a story · 3 points
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