Sourcegraph's Amp Replaces Named Modes With 'The Dial' — a Low/Medium/High/Ultra Effort Selector

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On July 9, Amp swapped its posture-named modes (smart, deep, rush, large) for a four-position dial: low, medium, high, ultra. The reframing shifts the user's decision from 'which model/approach' to 'how hard is this task,' with the agent picking model and thinking budget behind the dial. Single-source at time of writing, so treat as directional — but it mirrors the effort-tier direction across the tooling space.