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New comment by misternugget in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

misternugget — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 07:03:56 +0000

Engineer working on Amp here.

I'm very surprised that it took them this long to crack down on it. It's been against the terms of service from the start. When I asked them back in March last year whether individuals can use the higher rate limits that come with the Claude Code subscription in other applications, that was also a no.

Question is: what changed? New founding round coming up, end of fiscal year, planning for IPO? Do they have to cut losses?

Because the other surprise here is that apparently most people don't know the true cost of tokens and how much money Anthropic is losing with power users of Claude Code.

New comment by misternugget in "How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code"

misternugget — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 05:08:37 +0000

Hey! Thorsten Ball here. Thanks for the shout-out. I was quite confused when someone sent me this article: same "Emperor has no clothes", same "it's only x hundred lines", implements the same tools, it even uses the same ASCII colors when printing you/assistant/tool. Then I saw the "January 2025" in the title and got even more confused.

So, thanks for your comment and answering all the questions I had just now about "wait, did I wake up in a parallel universe where I didn't write the post but someone else did?"

A Codebase by an Agent for an Agent

misternugget — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:16:01 +0000

Article URL: https://ampcode.com/by-an-agent-for-an-agent

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46314614

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

200k Tokens Is Plenty

misternugget — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:07:50 +0000

Article URL: https://ampcode.com/200k-tokens-is-plenty

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207448

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Agents for the Agent

misternugget — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:45:27 +0000

Article URL: https://ampcode.com/agents-for-the-agent

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44238231

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by misternugget in "How I use Amp and how agents have changed how I program"

misternugget — Thu, 15 May 2025 15:47:52 +0000

Thank you! There's a long way to go still, but it makes me happy to hear when what we think about this, well, new way to program seems to resonate with others.

How I use Amp and how agents have changed how I program

misternugget — Thu, 15 May 2025 15:32:52 +0000

Article URL: https://ampcode.com/how-i-use-amp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996099

Points: 21

# Comments: 7

Bit-twiddling optimizations in Zed's Rope

misternugget — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:39:10 +0000

Article URL: https://zed.dev/blog/zed-decoded-rope-optimizations-part-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42174085

Points: 168

# Comments: 50

New comment by misternugget in "Zed on Linux Is Here"

misternugget — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:49:01 +0000

Working on it!

New comment by misternugget in "Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent"

misternugget — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 08:07:42 +0000

That is about the idea of rewriting existing tooling in Rust to get rid of node_modules folders, not about prompting users whether to download a language server or not.

New comment by misternugget in "Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites"

misternugget — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:45:18 +0000

One mini-feature I really like: authors highlighting their own favorite or popular articles.

I think I saw it first on Julia Evans' blog (https://jvns.ca/categories/favorite/). I also added it to mine (https://thorstenball.com/blog/) and found the exercise of going through the posts and tagging them very enjoyable.

New comment by misternugget in "Apple's APFS Migration: A Feat of Engineering"

misternugget — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:46:48 +0000

That's right, someone linked me to this article: https://www.macobserver.com/analysis/apple-dry-run-apfs-prio...

Pretty impressive.

New comment by misternugget in "Losing faith in testing"

misternugget — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 07:11:16 +0000

> I'm shocked by how many developers check in code that passes the tests but they have not actually tested to make sure it works.

That's actually one of the other topics I wanted to write about yesterday. Chose to write the article above instead.

Yes, 100%. I've seen it many times: manually testing reveals more in 1min than hours of previous discussions/reviews/test-writing.

New comment by misternugget in "Losing faith in testing"

misternugget — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 07:09:07 +0000

Hey, author here. Yeah, I worked at Sourcegraph and I do think we built some high-quality stuff and we did write tests. I also think a lot of them were necessary. But, like I wrote here, I think that maybe we/I sometimes overdid it with tests and I'm not so sure about the use of /some/ of them anymore.

New comment by misternugget in "How to Lose Control of Your Shell"

misternugget — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 07:32:03 +0000

Rust's debug-print {:?} quotes the path here.

New comment by misternugget in "We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed"

misternugget — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:51:36 +0000

Hey! I'm the mentioned Thorsten. Linux is actively being developed. Here's a PR from 2 days ago that shows file-opening in Linux starting to work: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/7852

And so far Linux support has been a big community effort. I think more community member contributed to Linux support than Zed teammates. Very cool to see.

So: Linux is in the works. Windows will probably happen after that, or if someone in the community wants to emulate what the Linux users are doing and start before that.

We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed

misternugget — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:38:55 +0000

Article URL: https://zed.dev/blog/we-have-to-start-over

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39358591

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by misternugget in "Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source"

misternugget — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 18:13:48 +0000

I think that is on the roadmap too, but possibly further down.

New comment by misternugget in "Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source"

misternugget — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:34:52 +0000

I only joined Zed, the company, a week ago, so take this with a grain of salt, but:

I've never really used real-time sharing (tried VS Code's Live mode and other apps) for longer than just 1-2 attempts, but at Zed things are different somehow. Everybody is constantly available in a channel and people just hop in or out. In the last 7 days I spent 3-5hrs every day pairing with others, using Zed's live mode. No video, only audio and sharing code in Zed (no video was weird at first, but now I think I'm starting to get used to it?)

IMHO it's a combination of culture and technology, but when the mix of that is right it really feels game-changing.

New comment by misternugget in "Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source"

misternugget — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:30:52 +0000

Hey! Engineer at Zed here. Linux port is on our roadmap. Hopefully we'll get it done this year!