For me (actually trying to get shit done using this stuff) it's validation.

Being able to have a verifiable input/output structure is key. I suppose you can do that with a regular http api call (json) but where do you document the openapi/schema stuff? Oh yeah...something like mcp.

I agree that mcp isn't as refined as it should be, but when used properly it's better than having it burn thru tokens by scraping around web content.

Yup, routing is key. Just like how we've had RAG so we don't have to add every biz doc to the context.

I agree with the general idea that models are better trained to use popular cli tools like directory navigation etc, but outside of ls and ps etc the difference isn't really there, new clis are just as confusing to the model as new mcps.

Lolololo okay if they're gonna stick a CWIS on the Amazon datacenter then we all get on mounted on our rooves too cause I certainly pay my taxes.

There's also the fact that Amazon et al tax haven it up.

"Ability to execute"

Lmao I love this. "Hey, engineers. Make something like that but better here's money, but only a fraction of what I'll make off it!"

Yeah, being a CEO is reeeally hard. Even when they fail they still walk out with >10m.

"You're holding it wrong"

People were in fact holding it wrong to get the signal to attenuate. The way you had to grip the phone to affect signal was not practical in any way. That controversy was entirely bullshit and only Apple would have ever been dragged for it.

Phones should be made to be held in any way.

Different people, different grips. It should just work.

Other brands manage to do better so why can't Apple with their $1k phone?

It's laughable they still get people to defend that.

And it's not like people are faraday cages. This is basic physics.

IIRC Other brands at the time did not actually do better. They all had similar issues and made similar or different tradeoffs.

People joke about electron but I've seen optimised electron run well and some native apps consume ludicrous amounts of memory.

These days code is nothing, content = memory.

Tribalism.

I have a macbook and a Samsung. The products I buy are here to do a job for me and that's it. If another brand does a better job then I'll switch to that with no qualms.

Yup, readmes exist for a reason even for meat bags

Except that most READMEs are seemingly written more for end-users than for developers; and even CONTRIBUTING files often mostly just document the social contribution process + guidelines rather than providing any guidance targeted toward those who would contribute. There’s a lot of “top-level architectural assumptions” detail in particular that is left on the floor, documented nowhere. Which “works” when you expect human devs to “stare really hard and ask questions” until they figure out what’s being done differently in this codebase; but doesn’t work at all when an LLM with zero permanent learning capability gets involved.

That's awesome. But also guild waaars, GW2 I played from beta for years, but it just got boring. Endless expansions with weird story.

We need GW3 already but my fear is mmo as a genre is dying.

They just need to call it GW Classic apparently and it will sell

Interesting. It's not just for mental health but keeping these models on task in general can be difficult, especially with long or poisoned contexts.

I did see something the other day about activation capping/calculating a vector for a particular persona so you can clamp to it: https://youtu.be/eGpIXJ0C4ds?si=o9YpnALsP8rwQBa_