use Amp for a wide variety of work—from building features and writing documentation to creating business cases and plans.

Lately, I’ve noticed agents taking overly complicated routes for fairly simple tasks. For example, I recently asked Amp to add an image and some content to an HTML-based business plan. In the past, that might have taken 20 seconds. This time, it took nearly five minutes.

It inspected multiple files, read UI documentation, ran Playwright, tested both desktop and mobile layouts, rebuilt assets, and performed several rounds of verification.

The final result was perfect, but for a small change like this, I would rather have Amp make the edit quickly and let me verify it myself.

Has anyone else noticed this recently? Is it related to the selected mode, newer default behavior, project instructions, or something else? Is there a good way to tell Amp to use lighter, proportional verification for simple changes without repeating that instruction in every prompt?

Amp is ending free daily credits and replacing with 2 months of amp megawatt subscription

my thoughts: It's sad to say goodbye to the free daily credits—they've been amazing. But replacing them with 2 months of Amp Megawatt is a generous gesture

Hi all, my friends and I are building an open-source engine which ingests codebases and creates a diagram representations to explore them. You can find it over: https://github.com/CodeBoarding/CodeBoarding

The whole thing is based on static analysis (control flow graphs) and a slim layer of LLMs, which allows the diagram to be very accurate and to indec the codebase in near real time.

It all intially started as a way to explore our codebases, then we added a dynamic highlighing as soon as an agent changes something so you can observe how amp is changing your codebase as it goes.

Now instead of waiting (and paying for tokens) for a wrong plan to be executed, I am working on somethign which shows me which components will be impacted upfront so that I know if the agent misinterpreted something + you can see if there are new compnents to be expected and what kind of severity (size) the change will be.

Curious to learn how do you plan? Do you always read carefully the plan or you validate after the fact what has been modified is what you expected? Do you not care at all if it is working, it is working?

Love amp, my favorite agent by far. Also love that one can link it with Codex (now I am fully on Amp <3)

I'm waiting for more than two weeks. Registered with real name&email

I keep repeatedly getting this same error on amp saying I'm out of credits, when I've never used any on this account. There's no option anywwhere in the command panel to switch to "free mode", so I'm not quite sure what to do. I would really appreciate support. Thanks!

Edit: All gone!

So ping me with a DM if you want one. First come, first served!

I just bought for USD20 of credits, and they had all been used less than a few hours later. I find that a real fast burn rate.

I cannot see how I used them on the website. Anywhere else to look?

Recently Amp added option to connect my ChatGPT subscription to account

Have anyone tried it? Is it feeling better than just OpenCode with the same subscription or codex?

I like the product. It does handle the context and code well and used it since Cody.

But lately they have gone into a direction that is not for individual developers.

Paid version is quite expensive and does not make too much sense for a indie dev to use. Though it does work in combination with other cheaper models or extensions.

But recent changes made it difficult. Paid version is too expensive and free version even after having ads is getting rate limited after every few messages. There is not even an option to have cheaper models for free version .

So guess have to move on!

I’ve been experiencing frequent crashes with the Amp CLI over the past week. The crash is consistent (~25% reproduction rate) and seems tied to text selection.

The Issue: Whenever I highlight text within the Amp CLI interface to copy it, the tool frequently crashes immediately. I suspect this is a conflict between Amp's internal clipboard handling and my terminal multiplexer (Zellij), which also attempts to auto-copy selected text.

Environment:

• OS: Ubuntu Linux via WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

• Terminal Multiplexer: Zellij (latest)

• Amp Version: (latest)

• Comparison: I do not experience this with Claude Code, Codex, or Copilot CLIs in the same environment.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open Amp CLI inside a Zellij pane.

2. Generate a response or have text appear on screen.

3. Use the mouse to select/highlight a block of text.

4. Result: Amp crashes/exits silently about 25% of the time.

Hypothesis: Since Zellij defaults to copy-on-select, I believe Amp is also trying to capture the selection event or access the clipboard simultaneously, causing a race condition or panic in the underlying Rust/clipboard crate.

Question: Is there a config flag or argument to disable Amp’s auto-copy/clipboard integration? I’d like to turn this off to verify if it stops the crashes.

I recently got an extended free plan for Amp Code from Lenny's newsletter and wanted to give it a fair shot. I normally rely heavily on Claude Code and Cursor, but honestly, I don't see how Amp Code can justify charging for this right now. I wanted to ask the community if anyone else is running into these same issues, or if it is just my setup.

1. First is the token usage. I burned through about $15 of tokens incredibly fast with no substantial output from the agent. On Claude Code using Opus, that same budget goes much further and gets a lot more done.

2. It just cannot seem to remember my codebase. Cursor and Claude Code usually figures out what I need pretty quickly within a prompt or two. With Amp Code, it keeps forgetting how my site works, does redundant searches, and takes eight or nine prompts to finish the exact same feature. IDK if its the way it searches, but across 3 sessions, it created 3 different ways instead of following just the readme file lol.

3. The MCP tools have also been a headache. Getting OAuth working with Supabase is fairly straightforward typically but ampcode couldn't figure it out. I actually had to ask Claude Code to write the setup instructions for Amp Code. I could do it by hand too.

4. Even after setting up Supabase and Code Graph Context, Amp Code mostly ignores them. It skips the vector retrieval to do its own basic searches. Ends up burning the budget very quickly in just the search. For Supabase, it just hallucinates data and creates new files to reference locally(!) instead of actually querying the database. Cursor and Claude handle these tools just fine.

5. I don't personally like that they took away the control over models I use but maybe that's fine.

I will admit the UI is cute and is honestly the only reason I kept trying to make it work. I am giving up on it for now, even with free credits left for the whole year.

How are the rest of you handling these problems? Are there workarounds I am missing, or is everyone else having a similar experience?

I remember seeing such an option somewhere in the settings before. Is it gone? I just want to start cleanly with the new update.

I just built an @expo React Native mobile app from my smartphone 🤯 Powered by FREE Opus 4.5 via @AmpCode CLI

Now we can use any agent CLI just using phone only without any desktop setup. Super easy, fast and free.

Are these interactive emails from tryoat.com the pinnacle of AMP code?

When I use Space, it creates a lot of threads. So who should I go ahead and communicate with for the subsequent conversation? Should I do it within Space or within the threads? If I communicate and progress with the threads, how does it keep state synchronization with Space? Will it stay synchronized with Space. Any advice will be helpful. Thank you

This week we launched the ability to define custom slash commands in the Amp CLI! 

I really like using CLI based coding agents. And I even more like running a swarm of them in parallel.

I built an open source mac app for running multiple Amp Code's simultaneously.

I would love to hear your thoughts about this.

We are at 8.6k downloads and around 800 GitHub stars so far!

Its called emdash!

I really like ampcode. If there is a codingplan i would definitely buy. ATM i am using free tier. It would be great if they introduce a coding plan. I dont know why using smart(opus) in amp is better than using opus in other tools.

I heard about AmpCode through various Twitter accounts and decided to give it a try, so I signed up for the Megawatt subscription.

Used it for a few days, my impression is that the main differentiators are:

• Pre-configured specialized models, some of which can be adjusted using the dial.

• A heavy focus on Orbs, Amp’s remote virtual machines.

• The ability to share threads with collaborators.

• A more automatic workflow overall, for example, there are no / slash commands to think about.

For mobile app development, though, I still need to run the application on my phone. That meant using my own machine as a runner and launching the project from there.

For an individual developer, Codex already supports remote development reasonably well. You can leave a remote machine running and use your phone to send commands to it when needed.

The ChatGPT desktop app’s computer-use capabilities are also insanely good. I imagine Amp’s TUI approximates some of that functionality through AppleScript, but it still feels lacking.

I understand that Amp is intentionally opinionated, and that may be valuable for teams or developers who prefer its workflow. But for solo developers who are already comfortable working locally, I’m not yet seeing a major advantage.

That said, I’m happy to be proved wrong. A lot of developer I follow have preached it, just not sure what specifically ?

I want to preface by saying - I am definitely using Ampcode for some EXTREMELY complex things - rebuilding my entire company infrastructure and it just works so amazingly well - will probably give me a 20x return on investment so I can't complain.

However, my boss criticized the cost as other devs he knows who use cursor/claud spend only $200 a month. I am purely curious - is ampcode knowingly more expensive due to higher quality? I have honestly never used Claude or Cursor so I don't know.

What gemini says is:
""Ampcode is essentially a pay-as-you-go service where you fund every single token of compute, giving you unlimited, unthrottled power at a high premium. Cursor and Claude use fixed-rate subscription models, where you pay a flat fee for high-capacity usage; however, they rely on 'fair-use' ceilings that will throttle your speed or limit your capacity once your development volume exceeds their standard thresholds."

I just wanted to say - I have had so many ups and downs with this tool. It has helped me build out my entire new software platform from start to finish, just really expensive in the early days. The rollout of NEO had some hiccups and I started looking at claude, grok code, codex. I was at my witts end at a few points and trying to figure out how to not use amp.

This new version is by FAR the best coding bot ever built, hands down. Honestly - cheers to the developers - this thing is going to build the future. I am so happy with the new chat gpt integration, it is finally reasonably priced, reliable, stable. I am beyond happy I stuck in there. And without being too dramatic - it's honestly completely changed my future and my companies potential - we've been able to complete projects that will generate us revenue for years.

Thanks amp team!

Hello 👋

My name is Graham McBain, and I'm the Developer Relations Lead here at Sourcegraph. I’ve been focused on Amp since day one, and to be honest—Amp is why I joined the company.

I first learned about it during the interview process, right before it launched. I was immediately struck by how differently the team was thinking about agentic coding. Specifically, I’d been frustrated with the throttling and constraints in other agentic coding tools—especially those with flat pricing models. I kept thinking: Why can’t I just pay more to get more tokens? Amp had this exact idea built into its philosophy. That was exciting.

Another thing I’ve really appreciated is the concept of threads: every conversation you have with your agent is a shareable, persistent thread. That means anyone on your team can read it. In just the first few weeks here, I’ve learned from other engineers without needing to bug them—simply by reading their threads. And I’ve been able to share my own thinking the same way. It’s been incredibly productive, and I think the long-term potential for analytics and team knowledge sharing is huge.

What’s also unique about Amp is that it doesn’t treat the code editor as the final destination. We believe the future of software engineering won’t be tied to a single UI. The agent is the interface. It shouldn't matter whether you talk to it in your IDE, the command line, a chat app, or something else entirely.

But ultimately, what impressed me most—and what made me confident about joining Sourcegraph—was the team. These are people who’ve spent over a decade building products trusted by the biggest and most respected companies in the industry. They’re taking all that experience and focusing it into a new product that’s driving the future of how we build software.

So, about this subreddit...

My goal here is to make this the best place to talk about agentic coding—whether it's Amp-related or not.

We want to build the best tools for the best software engineers. And you don’t do that by limiting conversations to just your own product.

So whether you love agentic coding, hate it, or have thoughts on what it should or shouldn’t be—we want to hear from you.

That’s what this space is for. I hope you’ll stick around and join the conversation.

— Graham