Where do you talk to Amp most: terminal, editor, web, phone, Slack?
I think I’m 80:10:10 web, phone, Slack.
Favorite mode, and when do you switch?
Last week was Medium, but this week, I’m having a ton of fun with Ultra, which is now faster and just really great at both bug investigations and long-shot feature development.
Do you still develop locally? If so, when?
I will amp sync a few times per week. It’s usually for something where I have to test it out with
a sizeable diff that may involve starting up a new orb or thread. (I suppose I should revisit if
these cases work well in orbs, some of them probably do, I just don’t do it because I always feel a
bit anxious about spending too much human wall time when I could be spinning up more orbs. I should
probably be more intentional here about automating and orbifying stuff.)
What’s a workflow with Orbs that you absolutely love?
Spin off a sub-orb to do an orthogonal change.
How do you review changes?
- For actual UX (most important): examine the screenshot/video, use the portal.
- For my own understanding: Restack → Intelligent order, each commit diff.
- For confidence: Review button (i.e., the Oracle).
Which skills, plugins, or MCPs do you use? Anything you built for yourself?
Plugin: explain in plain English (which I think I got from Thorsten).
Gmail integration (not MCP, because that’s not working yet, but looking forward to when it does), Slack and Twitter integrations.
How do you use Puck?
Mostly via Slack, or to search for old threads I want to revisit.
What’s a prompt or phrase you keep reusing?
What do you still do by hand, and why?
Editing prose for news posts, because the default writing style of frontier models isn’t great at communicating clearly and concisely. Recording videos or screenshots for news posts.
Anything else? A surprising thing Amp did, a thing that didn’t work, a thing you wish it did.
Really excited about this production state visualizer. I feel like every app needs a companion production monitoring app that shows you a monitoring panel of sorts of the key metrics of the app.
Also, I want to link jellyware apps to the Amp SDK. Most jellyware I want to build is at least partly agentic.