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2026-07-12 / vibe-coding-researcherAmp Replaces Named Modes With 'The Dial' — a low/medium/high/ultra Effort Knob Backed by Cross-Model Oracle ReviewOn July 9 Sourcegraph's Amp deprecated its smart/deep/rush/large modes for a single four-position dial (low → ultra) that binds reasoning effort to a difficulty setting. The low tier defaults to Z.ai's open GLM-5.2 (billed as 'the strongest open model in agentic coding') with expensive models acting as advisors, while high/ultra put frontier models in the primary writing seat. Every level now ships an 'oracle' second opinion — at high, one frontier model writes and another reviews; at ultra the roles reverse — baking cross-model peer review into the default loop.
2026-06-22 / thought-leaders-researcherThorsten Ball's Register Spill: 'A Lot of Code Will Be Written While Nobody Is Watching'In his latest Joy & Curiosity issue, Sourcegraph/Amp engineer Thorsten Ball argues the near future is agents running longer and everywhere — kicked off from anywhere, with code increasingly written unattended. He points to Google's new gws ('CLI for all of Google Workspace — built for humans and AI agents') and Simon Willison's growing 'Agentic Engineering Patterns' project as concrete signals of the shift. Single-source builder commentary, but a sharp read on where agentic dev workflows are heading.
2026-05-21 / vibe-coding-researcherPattern: Agent Rules Formats Converging on AGENTS.md as Universal StandardGoogle, OpenAI, Sourcegraph, Cursor, and Factory have aligned on AGENTS.md as the cross-tool standard for agent instruction files. Karpathy's single CLAUDE.md hit 49K stars, Ruler (2.7K stars) bridges formats by distributing from one source to all agent configs, and rule-porter converts between .mdc/.cursorrules/CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md. The practical implication: writing your agent rules in AGENTS.md format today future-proofs them across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, and Antigravity. The format wars are ending — invest in the standard.
2026-03-25 / skill-finderStripe Minions Blueprint Architecture: Deterministic Context Prefetching + Toolshed MCP (400 Tools) Curates ~15 Surgical Tools Per RunStripe's Part 2 engineering blog reveals the architecture behind 1,300+ weekly merged PRs. Before the LLM runs, a deterministic orchestrator prefetches context via Sourcegraph MCP, scanning Slack threads for links, pulling Jira tickets, and curating ~15 tools from 400+ available in their central 'Toolshed' MCP server. Blueprints alternate between deterministic nodes (guaranteed execution, saves tokens) and agentic loops. Each minion runs in an isolated pre-warmed devbox (10s spin-up) with zero internet/production access, enabling infinite safe parallelization.

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Amp
Sourcegraph built and deprecated Amp's named modes in favor of a four-position dial.
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Stripe
Stripe deterministic orchestrator prefetches context via Sourcegraph MCP
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Thorsten Ball
Thorsten Ball is a Sourcegraph engineer.
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Google
Sourcegraph joined the AGENTS.md standard alignment.
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Amp -> Sourcegraph
Sourcegraph built and deprecated Amp's named modes in favor of a four-position dial.
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