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Nicolay Gerold

Software engineer at Amp Frontier Corporation, working on Amp, the coding agent. Founder of Aisbach.

Writing about coding agents, software, and AI in production.

Selected Writing

All writing
  1. 2026
    Kirby Is Eating Context Engineering

    LLMs are like Kirby: swallow a sword knight, get a blade; swallow the magician, breathe flames. What used to be external tooling becomes native capability.

  2. 2026
    How I Built Handoff in Amp

    I never used /compact. The summary always lost my instructions. So I built handoff.

  3. 2025
    Tool search is dead, long live skills

    How skills in Amp enable just-in-time tool discovery by bundling instructions, MCP servers, and toolboxes into self-contained packages.

  4. 2025
    Tool search should not be search but discovery

    Why deferred tool loading in LLM agents sounds simple but isn't.

Current

Working on Amp. Recording How AI Is Built.