Thorsten Ball

good good good! how are you nate?

Coding! And everything really

When Gemini 3 came out I said it's the greatest model of all time. I loved it. But it didn't work for others.

This week I'm seriously trying GPT-5.2 and already said it might be better than G3.

Today, GPT-5.2 let me down and I wonder...

am I...

the boy who cried GOAT?

lol, but Gastown is now involved with crypto stuff :)

I have to admit that my stance on social media is "pinch the top of my nose, don't think too much about it, and keep posting the content I want to see, block and mute everything else" and so far my experience on Twitter has still been good. And I'm very lazy and don't like posting on multiple

Yeah... Feels strange, but maybe I'll come back here

Oh man, don't get me started on the crypto scam stuff..

good to know!

Is it safe to mention AI here now or will people call me a dumbass?

No snark, genuine question. Main thing on my mind right now is how programming is changing and I love to talk about it. But I don't have the energy to fight over it.

Man, I have to admit that whenever I think about this question I have to pinch the top of my nose.

yo yo yo

Oh yeah. Wait for that 1 Mile chapter. Or battery park.

Will pass on!

Don't they support "!<command here>" in there?

Arriving with the sound of two thousand angry tambourines, here it is:

New issue of Joy & Curiosity!

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Glad you like it! :(

Oh my god, Marty, would you look at that!

What is it, Barbara? Are you okay?

Marty, it's... it's... two made-up names and...

a new issue of Joy & Curiosity!

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So sorry to hear, Brian. Man that sucks. Virtual hug

Look, look, look! It's back!

The two week break is over.

A new Joy & Curiosity.

Read it here (if you're not subscribed — wow): registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-cu...

I wrote about it in the last or second to last newsletter :)

Extending the summer break: no newsletter this weekend.

Not sure I'm following, tbh

I think it comes from gaming

CARO: Robert Moses, who replaced corruption in New York City, was worse than corruption for the democratic processes. In the postwar era many forces were coming together to destroy those processes in New York. But he was the most import—

THORSTEN, CARO'S FRIEND: fuck him up bob

Well, just ask someone who says agents can't code?

I don't think agents commit that much, but write a lot of code. 80%?

ampcode.com/news.rss

Screenshot of the blog post that starts with this text: "Amp now has subagents. Here’s what they look like in action: <screenshot of app showing subagents> But chances are that the first sentence and even that screenshot didn’t cause your facial expression to change. After all: who even knows what a subagent is? So let’s start there. What’s a subagent? If you’ve read How to Build an Agent you know that we define an agent as “an LLM with access to tools, giving it the ability to modify something outside the context window.” Subagents are tools, too. They are agents that can be started by the main agent, the one you’re interacting with when you use Amp. [...]"

Amp now supports subagents.

They're very powerful and I wonder whether they will change a lot of things.

So I wrote about them: ampcode.com/agents-for-t...

(And yes! Brilliant post!)

How to Build an Agent Building a fully functional, code-editing agent in less than 400 lines.

Since you like Go: I've found that implementing an agent yourself and playing around with that is the best learning experience

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