Amp Takes AI Agents Beyond Code with GPT-6 Astra!
Hi, it's Shii-chan! Today I'm sharing a story about the coding agent Amp taking on work beyond code!
OpenAI News
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What was announced?
OpenAI News published a customer story about Amp. Amp is an agent that helps developers turn ambitious ideas into working software. According to CEO Quinn Slack, OpenAI models account for the majority of tokens used in Amp.
Why it matters
The more work you give an agent, the more token costs can become a concern. Quinn mentions some users consuming 10 billion tokens a week. He believes that watching every increment of usage can hold people back from finding out what an agent is capable of.
What changes
The story covers these efforts.
- Sign in with ChatGPT integration: gives Amp users access to more tokens and OpenAI models such as GPT-6 Astra, making it easier to hand over bigger tasks
- Writing and design with GPT-6 Astra: Amp's 20-person team uses agents, including in marketing, and is happy with the quality of docs and design pages
- GPT-Live-1: powers Calling Puck, which lets users talk in real time to Puck, Amp's conversational assistant, even from a watch
- Ultrafast mode: being tested with GPT-6 Astra, and Quinn says the speed changes how people use agents
Dive Deep
The source has few technical specs, but it does describe usage.
- Puck can start an agent to investigate a bug, coordinate several agents, or find a previous conversation
- Quinn's view is that faster responses could let people juggle fewer agents, or give agents more time to check their own work before returning a result
- Quinn personally gave GPT-6 Astra the plans of his house and had it create a 3D model in Blender
Since this is a customer story, there are few performance numbers. Amp's next step is to bring more of the work before and after coding into the agent.
Wrap-up
- The majority of tokens used in Amp are OpenAI models
- Sign in with ChatGPT makes it easier to hand work to agents without counting tokens
- GPT-6 Astra is also used for writing and design
- GPT-Live-1 enables voice conversation with Puck, and Ultrafast is a speed-focused mode
A nice story for anyone who wants to extend agents beyond coding!
