# Faster Deep & Rush

> Source: <https://ampcode.com/news/faster-deep-rush>
> Published: 2026-06-05 00:00:00+00:00

The first token now arrives 87% faster and entire responses are 32% faster, p50,
in Amp's `deep`

and `rush`

modes.

How? Mostly using websockets for communication with OpenAI, partly because we
[rebuilt Amp](https://ampcode.com/news/neo) to be much faster last month.

These gains matter most on long-horizon tasks, where we're seeing up to a 40% end-to-end speedup from user prompt submission to completion.

You can see the difference:
