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title: Less Noise
link: https://ampcode.com/news/less-noise
source: ampcode-com
published: 2026-09-25T00:00:00Z
updated: 2026-09-25T00:00:00Z
first_seen: 2026-10-03T23:09:50.514863041Z
summary: Amp now collapses your agent's step-by-step work even more, since you care about what the agent did, not how it got there. (You can still expand the steps when needed.) A year ago, watching your agent's every step sometimes helped, and you probably were only running one agent. Now? You have lots of agents. You should be giving them harder, deeper work and verification demands. They should run for longer on their own, without you watching them from up close. If you have the patience to watch your agents work, you're giving them too short a leash.
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Amp now collapses your agent's step-by-step work even more, since you care about what the agent did, not how it got there. (You can still expand the steps when needed.)

A year ago, watching your agent's every step sometimes helped, and you probably were only running one agent.

Now? You have lots of agents. You should be giving them harder, deeper work and verification demands. They should run for longer on their own, without you watching them from up close. If you have the patience to watch your agents work, you're giving them too short a leash.

![Ten separate rows of commands, reads, searches, and edits become one expandable summary. Both are followed by the same assistant reply, fading at the second line.](https://static.ampcode.com/news/less-noise-dark.avif)