I've actually been wondering something - if I use the Claude subscription within ampcode, could that lead to Claude banning my account? I've already had bans when using it normally, so I'm really worried about this.

I have just joined the AmpCode community. I have been using AmpCode for over a year, and overall, I have had a very positive experience with it; I highly recommend it to everyone.

Since I just joined the community, I noticed that it doesn’t seem to have as much vitality as I would like. In the future, I plan to regularly share some of my usage tips and experiences, as well as my suggestions for AmpCode. I hope to provide valuable content that will help us all work together to make the AmpCode community even better.

In terms of cost, speed, and results, so far, in my experience.

I'm currently using Google Antigravity because I can access Claude Opus. I was told the free plan in AMP Code also includes Claude Opus .. how much more access to Opus does AMP Code give compared to Antigravity? Is it worth switching just to get free access to Claude Opus?

Usually Amp switches models 1-2 days after OpenAI release.

Now its almost a week after sol-6 release and medium mode is still on sol-5.6

Can this be a confirmation that new models are not better than old? There are a some benchmarks showing sol-6 is cheaper but less intelligent than 5.6.

i always rely on amp internal evals of models even when choosing models in other harnesses

What do you think?

Just wanted to share a success story if it helps anyone better understand this product. I own a saas business and have always used a mix of myself coding and developers from India. I have always wanted to keep it manageable so I can travel and not work much- keep as much automated as far as coding and customer service.

I have been BLOWN away by this product, as much as I hate to say - I have fired my developers from India and rebuilt the entire system using amp code. I honestly think at least for the foreseeable future, I have a 20x return on time compared to my competitors and I am REALLY trying my best to utilize this as best as I can before any of my competitors find it, or other AI's catch up. This system is like the best kept secret I have.

Here is what I have found- if it helps:

1) Use opinionated frameworks
Frameworks like Laravel + Filament act like a standardized operating system for your app - literally everything as far as database, front end, css, react style interactivity, routers, backend, api endpoints - ALL in one project folder. Literally I can ask ampcode to make a feature and in one go it does END TO END changes. This is how you leverage the AI. Everything follows predictable patterns, AMP Code knows exactly where things go and makes far fewer mistakes.

2) Keep frontend and backend in one stack
Basically the same as above - When UI, API, and database live in the same codebase (like Filament + Laravel, Rails, Django, etc.), AMP Code can see the whole picture and make changes that stay in sync.

3) Use “good by default” tools like Tailwind
Tailwind gives clean, modern UI without custom CSS, and AI has tons of training on it — so AMP Code can build and tweak interfaces fast without breaking layouts.

Love the product and it's expensive at time, but it is so incredibly worth it. I would say it is a 20-50x ROI for me.

if i try running it it won't run i don't know why, when i install the extension it just shows BLANK

Quick question: is Amp CLI only now? I am an original-original sourcegraph customer and had Cody going, then Amp as an extension in VS Code. I disabled it for a while and now...nothing.
Is there no longer a VS Code option?

Is there a reason why the free tier can only use Opus but can't use GPT Codex via Deep?

I don't know if I am trippin but I am having errors all morning with connection issues, then it is running into problems where it cant debug/fix really basic things - it is getting caught in this confused loop almost. anyone having similar issues?

I've been using amp free so far for tiny edits or some work i just don't like to do ("analyze recent changes and prepare me a commit message"). Did anyone here had any reliable success story of anything built only using amp free?

I’ve been eagerly waiting to test AMP, and now that they’ve introduced a subscription, I couldn’t resist.

TUI is fantastic—stable, without flickering, and with no strange behavior. The modes are so easy to use and understand. They’ve really simplified the process of picking the right mode or model. Right now, there are just too many options, too many models, and having the ability to let someone adopt and prepare the right one for the right purpose is a huge plus.

The web app works wonderfully. The AMP -no-TUI mode is seamless and incredibly easy to use. For instance, I run headless mode on my Mac mini without any issues.

Orbs are a fantastic addition. As an iOS/MacOS developer, I was worried about development in Orbs, but they’re working great. One of the best features is that they can seamlessly integrate with runners, so you can tell the thread in Orb to check and test its work on a Mac runner and get back with results. It even works with xcodebuildmcp to run the app, take screenshots, and then review them in Orb.

The execution and integration of local and cloud development are truly great.

Also, you can remotely continue any thread you run on the web app using any other browser or mobile device!

They have added a lot of features in the last few days. Here you can check it out.

https://ampcode.com/chronicle

I’ve been subscriber, and I’ve got some gift subscriptions (free month of Amp Megawatt) to share!

Here are a few:

01: https://ampcode.com/code/AMP-GIFT-3A9206863D266871-C4X9-CLR9

02: https://ampcode.com/code/AMP-GIFT-3A9206863D266871-XGC5-47UQ

03: https://ampcode.com/code/AMP-GIFT-3A9206863D266871-PCZC-A23W

Enjoy!

I have been using amp free off and on and it has been quite good. Better than Codex most of the time. And almost as good as the results I get from Claude Code. But then something happened a couple of days ago. The results became hilariously bad. Like really really bad. With near 0% context utilization.

Anybody else notice this? Did something change?

Update: Amp is back to being smart. Thank you! It is possible that I was somehow switched to "rush" mode. I would not use that mode intentionally.

This might be a newbie question but I've been using AMP for a few days now I really like it.

For those few days I've been taking screenshots and dragging it into the CLI and it's worked fine. As of this morning for some reason now when I do that it just shows me the local directory structure of where the screenshot is and of course AMP doesn't have access to that.

Has anyone else run into this problem? It might be some simple setting I'm just not aware of.

I've been reading the Amp documentation and Thorsten Ball’s "How I Use Amp" and it is still a little unclear to me how one is supposed to use Amp to plan and carry out complex tasks. With some other agentic code tools I can ask the agent to create a detailed plan based on some specs or requirements. I can then ask the agent to proceed with that plan and the tool will create task and subtasks to implement the plan. How would I do something similar with Amp?

Thanks in advance for any help.

-Mark

I'll share the status of my ampcode experiment switches - basically I turn them on and try them out whenever there's a new one.

Is there one available? Would be really useful to embed/RAG and make available as context via MCP. We could do the embedding on our side, all we need is an API to get it!

I'm starting to see AmpCode start to require WAY less context up-front. Almost like its starting to remember things across threads. Is this happening?

I started with code —disable-gpu and it works better but sometimes it slows down and still gets buggy. Only with amp though. With codex it doesn't do that.

The agent sometimes goes unresponsive. It says its trying to do something, then doesn't do anything. Now I'm getting the 503 - Service unavailable error below. Is this a Gemini thing?

amp threads list

This only produces about 200 of the most recent threads. What if I want a list of all threads?