# Amp — Model Evaluation

- Company: Amp (ampcode.com)
- Announced: 2025-08-12
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://ampcode.com/news/model-evaluation
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7820-model-evaluation
- Subject: Amp
- Models affected: GPT-5

The Amp team evaluated GPT-5 over a week and shared their impressions, noting its strengths in coding and instruction following but weaknesses in speed, tool use, and persistence. They also made GPT-5 available for testing in Amp and later used it as the oracle model.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://ampcode.com/news/model-evaluation:

> You can try GPT-5 in Amp now. In the CLI, run amp --try-gpt5 In the editor extension, set the following setting: "amp.gpt5": true, (Update: These options to try GPT-5 as the main model have been removed. Amp now uses GPT-5 as the oracle .) See the official announcement for more details. We have been impressed with GPT-5's capabilities. It excels at tool use and code generation at noticeably

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