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Tim Lucas

@toolmantim

Venn diagram of sandwiches, climbing, design and programming. Design @sourcegraph. Prev: co-founder @buildkite, and other stuff too. He/Him. ❤️ @canarycarla

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Being able to quickly whip up a custom tool, right where you're working, is such a design super power. I gave zero UI/aesthetic/syntax direction to Amp — Research Preview, only focused on what I needed to move forward. And I'll just `rm` it all when I'm done.

Being able to quickly whip up a custom tool, right where you're working, is such a design super power. I gave zero UI/aesthetic/syntax direction to <a href="/AmpCode/">Amp — Research Preview</a>, only focused on what I needed to move forward. And I'll just `rm` it all when I'm done.
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I love a good GUI, but my use of homebrew-installed CLI tools has gone way up w/ Amp — Research Preview. Last time it was for tweaking fonts… this time for video. ampcode.com/threads/T-e63c…

I love a good GUI, but my use of homebrew-installed CLI tools has gone way up w/ <a href="/AmpCode/">Amp — Research Preview</a>. Last time it was for tweaking fonts… this time for video. 
ampcode.com/threads/T-e63c…
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V similar changes: - Asking to investigate and provide options - Iterating prompts based on how the thread progressed - Recently: asking it to clone a dep’s git repo and investigate an API or concept (helps it, helps me, and only usually takes < 1min… it figures out the URL)

V similar changes:
- Asking to investigate and provide options
- Iterating prompts based on how the thread progressed
- Recently: asking it to clone a dep’s git repo and investigate an API or concept (helps it, helps me, and only usually takes &lt; 1min… it figures out the URL)
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Never, not in a million years, would I have believed you if you had told me: "Someone's going to read your marketing copy live, on air, on a podcast"

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Why can’t Rasmus Andersson just produce every font on the planet? I’ve resorted to using fonttools to modify fonts w/ Amp — Research Preview, having it create and compare spec sheets using Inter as the gold standard.

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Good to see Sonos has addressed their quality issues 😬 They still have a chance to save customers that haven’t switched their audio gear… yet (like me)

Good to see <a href="/Sonos/">Sonos</a> has addressed their quality issues 😬 They still have a chance to save customers that haven’t switched their audio gear… yet (like me)
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In this episode, Beyang and Thorsten discuss strategies for effective agentic coding, including the 101 of how it's different from coding with chat LLMs, the key constraint of the context window, how and where subagents can help, and the new oracle subagent which combines