"As of today, Amp, our agentic coding tool, is available to everyone. The waitlist is gone — go, go and sign up and use it!
For the past 10 weeks, Amp has been the main tool with which I develop software and — putting yet another exclamation mark behind the fact that the tools we use end up changing us — it has fundamentally changed how I develop software.
So I thought I’d use the occasion to write up how I personally use Amp.
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Write SQL
Having an agent that connects to your database is very, very close to the joy you feel when it takes screenshots and iterates on UI components.
Here’s how to do it.
First, tell the agent to use psql (or any other CLI utility) or the tools provided by the postgres MCP server (or any other MCP server for your database) to connect to your DB.
Then, ask it things like this:
Update my user account (email starts with thorsten) to have unlimited invites
Or:
Return me a list of users with the most number of threads, sorted by number of threads
The agent will then do everything it can to return you that list: figure out the schema of the database, try this query, try that query.
Look, here I wanted to change my local development database. It didn’t know what the schema is, so it tried to figure that out first, which it did — by running four commands in parallel:
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"Amp is an agentic coding tool built by Sourcegraph. It runs in VS Code (and compatible forks like Cursor, Windsurf, and VSCodium) and as a command-line tool. It’s also multiplayer — you can share threads and collaborate with your team.
Principles
Amp is unconstrained in token usage (and therefore cost). Our sole incentive is to make it valuable, not to match the cost of a subscription.
No model selector, always the best models. You don’t pick models, we do. Instead of offering selectors and checkboxes and building for the lowest common denominator, Amp is built to use the full capabilities of the best models.
We assume that you want to access the raw power these models have to offer.
Built to change. Products that are overfit on the capabilities of today’s models will be obsolete in a matter of months."
https://ampcode.com/manual