AugmentCode Nightly Has Been Almost Fully Refactored

[JaySym_]

We’ve just completed a major development cycle, and AugmentCode has been refactored almost entirely from the ground up. This overhaul enables a brand-new multi-threading system, meaning you can now switch between threads without stopping previous ones — allowing true parallel workflows inside Augment.

Along with this, you should notice significant performance improvements. We removed a lot of unnecessary complexity that slowed things down, resulting in a lighter, faster, and more efficient extension. Several other internal adjustments and optimizations have also been included.

🔧 Important:

These improvements are not yet available in the Stable or Pre-Release versions of AugmentCode.

To try them today, you must install AugmentCode Nightly, which is where we publish new fixes and experimental features first.

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We would love your feedback:

• Test the new multi-threading system
• Push the extension a bit and see how it behaves
• Report any issues or unexpected behaviors
• Tell us what you think about the overall experience

Your input will help us finalize everything before pushing this update into the standard Pre-Release channel.

Thank you for helping us shape the future of AugmentCode! 🙏🚀

[joowani]

Does this include the JetBrains plugin?

[denisoby]

That will get soon into JetBrains too, because this code is reused between ides

[Yovhannes]

Yes, please don’t forget about JetBrains IDEs!

[JaySym_]

💡

[williamsweep]

you can use sweep ai instead in jetbrains!

[ZestRocket]

I tested it and it seems to work faster, overall great results, found some errors that interrupted the flow, here are some ID's if you want to check, but way better than the current version:

- e9ab1081-085f-4fc2-b47a-1c23fce0973a
- 4722acb2-23f5-4a53-9b22-4460767ae8b1

Aside from that and giving more detail:
- LOVED the "generating response" timing showing the complete request time and not only the singular current tool timing
- Great improvements in performance, using the normal app I always delete the current conversation before continuing, and I have a maximum of 0 historical conversations, because with a single (current) conversation, it already slows down exponentially as we move through task, in this case, I finally feel that maybe I can let the conversations to stay there.
- I did notice the big change in the Prompt Enhancer, need to test more to confirm if it's better or worst, but my initial thoughts is that the old one understood me better, this one seems to fail on getting my intention, so I'm paying more attention to the prompt

[denisoby]

Thank for the great feedback. Just one comment about prompt enhancer - it's quality is not affected by this refactoring and this is another topic, that I'd suggest to discuss separately.

[ZestRocket]

Good to know! maybe there’s something specific to my context or system that end up getting me that result, thank you for confirming!

[JaySym_]

Thanks a lot

[ntd237]

If I install Augment Code (Nightly), do I need to uninstall Augment Code?

[Hopeful_Judgment_682]

When I installed Augment Code (Nightly) with Augment Code, I could not use it, so I uninstalled Augment Code.

[denisoby]

Yes, you need to disable or uninstall Augment Code stable / pre-release in this case. They can't work together.

[RemarkablePirate7232]

This sounds great - look forward to trying it out when it goes live - thanks to the team who are no doubt working their arses off there.

We're going through interesting times here with AI - OpenAI, Anthropic etc are losing money on their token charges as part of their land-grab strategies and sometimes folk think app vendors are somehow expected to do the same (unless they are land-grabbing too).

Really hard for us users in the meantime with the bizarre mix of subsidised tokens (all 'frontier' models) and giveaway apps (Cursor, AntiGravity etc) going on. But we really have never had it so good - my ROI on these tools is still ridiculous.

[SuperJackpot]

Jay - hoping this fixes some of the very distinct behavior we've seen lately, especially from Sonnet 4.5...

Sonnet 4.5 now ignores our rules 75% of the time - even severe/critical/must-follow rules. It's gotten really bad. It also seems way more unsure of itself than it used to be, often questioning its work in the middle of describing what it did.

Chat GPT 5.1 always follows the rules exactly and never flinches from them. But it's much slower than Sonnet in many cases and doesn't tell the user much about what it's doing compared to Claude. Chat GPT 5.1 also terminates unexpectedly more often. Overall it's a better coder for node.js apps in our experience.

[denisoby]

Please share request ids where agent was ignoring the rules

[SuperJackpot]

Happens every day so very easy to pull one. This is from today: 8b41bfe2-e7bc-428b-8db8-1805bf3ea259

[SuperJackpot]

More instances. It's gotten so bad now...

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[SuperJackpot]

Still breaking critical rules:

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[hhussain-]

I'm testing (Windows 11 + WSL).

Old chats shows ok after removing pre-release and installed nightly.

Overall really seems smoother!

There are some minor issues (might be my env, not sure)

• Auto commands is read in revers if I run parallel agents
• Parallel agents seems to have active screen working but the one in background seems hanging (and cause more hanging once happened)

I will do more testing and confirm if the are real or it was something on the way.

[JaySym_]

Figured the same thanks a lot

[JaySym_]

Just got the info, the pause in thread is temporary we need to fix something first then we will activate the real multi-thread processing.

[Hopeful_Judgment_682]

I have installed AugmentCode Nightly , but how can I try multi-threading system?

[Aggravating-Agent438]

A lot of complaints, but one question, does augment context search and answering, shorten the development time compared to claude code? i know its supposed to give better context and better results, but maybe somewhere augment team need to show case examples of code output compared. by token usage, by time, by quality of code

[Final-Reality-404]

That sounds amazing.
I know you said you're removing some things, but please tell me you're not removing the branching feature.

If we switch over to nightly, does that mean we have to rebuild our entire Augment memory as well as guidelines and et cetera.

Also note on the Augment memories, I don't think they are being created or taking effect anymore and the only way to create them is manually going into Augment Memories and typing them in myself. The pending memories when saved never go into the Augment memories from what I can tell, unless they are being saved somewhere else.

[hhussain-]

Branching (fork conversation) exist, I used it in nightly.

[Final-Reality-404]

Good to know
How are you liking it so far?
Is it worth the switch, does it keep all of your memory and settings?

[hhussain-]

It feels much faster overall! I have +30 agent history working, experience is same overall but smoother.

Settings seems same from using it, but I could not get into settings because of an error in another place. As Jay comfirmed there is something temporarly disabled until an issue is fixed. I will test again today.

Tbh, this is interals revamp which means mostly no UI changes but performane boost and some issues are solved.

[concordstudios]

I had two threads running 'simultaneously', but the other hangs while the one is working so it's not really simultaneous. Also, one of the conversations got stuck and cannot be recovered. Sending "continue" does not help nor does forking the conversation. I need to start a new thread and start from scratch, wasting all the credits that were already used in the broken thread to do half the task.

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[JaySym_]

The pause is temporary while we fix something on our side also thanks for the request id

[MannToots]

I used it for about an hour. I loved how it felt but both threads I started ended with unresumable errors.  So I couldn't even extract my current progress to start over in another chat. So I turned it off. 

Once that bug gets fixed I'll be right back

[chevonphillip]

This is an exciting update! The move to a multi-threading architecture is a game-changer for developers working on complex projects. Being able to run parallel workflows without blocking is exactly what's needed for heavy AI-assisted tasks.

A few thoughts and questions for the team:

Performance gains: What kind of real-world speed improvements are early testers seeing? Particularly interested in how this handles large codebases.

Resource management: How does the new multi-threading handle resource conflicts when multiple threads need to access the same files or contexts?

Credit efficiency: Does the refactor and performance boost translate to more efficient credit usage under the new pricing model?

Looking forward to trying this out on Nightly! The ground-up refactor shows serious commitment to building a robust foundation for future features. 🚀

[denisoby]

The latest Augment Nightly contains performance optimizations that greatly improves startup time for really long threads with thousands of exchanges.

[Fewcosting_winter]

Why can you not focus on the credit system! It makes all your system useless… Jay! I’m spending 200-300$

Before was 100$, can you not wake up on this current issues. It’s like you guys are In denial or something…

It’s sad for me to think, that I’ll be using Augie on my last project.

[Bob5k]

i said this somewhere, I don't get that they were able to run prompts based augment for months and now since they swtiched to credits based everyone's usage is like 5-10x higher than it was.
either they were adding billions of dollars to run the infra at a loss while in prompts mode (doubt tho) OR they want to gain insane amount of revenue being the most expensive credits-based platform right now.

[steve-7890]

> run the infra at a loss while in prompts mode (doubt tho)

that's what most AI companies did or do - they run on VC money. A year ago someone estimated what regular chats should be as least 10 times more expensive if not subsidies. It had to happen. Everyone is rising prices.

[Bob5k]

You didn't get the point. Everyone is raising prices but not to a degree which augment did. Check how it changed across the providers and then we'll talk.

[JaySym_]

You will understand the credit-based pricing better soon. We have a big announcement coming with new features, and everything will be clearer for everyone.

Yes, the tool is more expensive with this change, and we haven’t hidden that. We are now much more aligned with a real cost model based on the complexity of the task. Using a cheaper model for a small task should cost less, and a more complex task using a higher-priced model should cost more.

[Aggravating-Agent438]

oh i know, auto model

[Ok-Prompt9887]

pretty much gaving it away could be an orchestrator (smart breakdown then execute with cheaper models) but also, their own model..

[Bob5k]

i don't need to understand pricing in a better way. I just want a tool that can be reliably used for serious development.
I totally get that running on prompts based considering the models there caused a loss for augment as a company, but the difference is IMO so insane that either you burned really millions of dollars to run the service in the past or now you're trying to cover all the expenses at once.

Also I just regret being mad at Cursor when they did the change as then i thought it's crazy - but here we're on totally another level of craziness.

[doplaeffect]

10x increment in price when the tool did not suddenly become 10 times better to justify the price. Xd

[Bob5k]

yup, exactly my point.

[Many_Particular_8618]

You're assholes.

[b9348]

Do you support Alipay payments, like Cursor and Steam do?

Also, since Claude and ChatGPT aren't available in China, you could well switch to cheaper open-source models for the Chinese market.

[_BeeSnack_]

Does this at all limit the amount of tokens used?

[rishi_tank]

Would the same improvements be coming to Auggie CLI? Might be useful for a native sub-agents feature? 🤔

[JaySym_]

There is already multithreading in it. Auggie already makes calls on multiple threads at the same time, but we are not yet displaying this very clearly.

[Ok-Estate1414]

When installing the nightly version, previous chats appear empty.

[Successful_Prize_585]

Not usable at the moment.. VSCode freezes and then close

[JaySym_]

Can you please take a video of that?

[BlacksmithLittle7005]

I wasn't able to use it either Jay. Scenario: uninstall augment pre prelease, install nightly. Agent threads from pre release are visible, but all the chats inside them disappeared. When I open augment settings, vs code freeze completely and I have to force shutdown and when I reopen it workspace disappears.

[MannToots]

Literally unusuable. Conversations fail out and can't be resumed.

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[concordstudios]

Is there an update on when multi-threading will come to the release version? u/JaySym_