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MCP is for when your end user (the one driving an LLM Agent) is non technical. Most non technical people are not going to install a CLI on their computer. Most are not going to be driving the LLM agent via a terminal.

It also very helpful when you need auth. MCP OAuth with CIMD makes it easy instead of cumbersome process of generating API Keys.

If you are technical and already using CLIs, then MCP doesn't give you much.


Even with a cli it doesn’t have a nice list of all commands and a nice description of when to call such a tool

I often find that a lot of models will call the `--help` flag to figure out the commands and arguments nowadays. If I use a cli repeatedly, I'll generally ask it to create a skill

Fly.io brings back some of that easy of deploy.

Caprover for me, but fly.io is pretty cool, reminds me of flynn.io

Yep, agreed. Fly.io is the closest to Heroku that I’ve found.

Especially the pricing is equally joyous.

never knew you could do css selectors on custom elements! does seem like syntactical sugar over classes. I do like the current trend with tailwind: style with markup using smaller components. But maybe there is something here with so many components being just styles...


Are you doing got worktrees in the backend?


no sir. only the fullest featured repositories for our free-range* claudes

* containerized, but meets free range standards


right now we're using docker -- we're planning to support modal (https://modal.com/) for remote sandboxes and a "local" mode that might use something like worktrees


Reminds me of the three tribes of software programmers. https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/amp/

Mort == maker Elvis ==? hacker Einstein == poet


Dish outsources sales calls to a third party. This third party doesn’t have access to customer accounts so they have to send you to an actual Dish call center. Not as nefarious as you think but still frustrating.


ChatGPT has a Mac app. If you want to run your own models, Ollama with Chital is great.

https://github.com/sheshbabu/Chital


The ChatGPT app only has the nifty "works with any app" feature if you're on the Plus plan and doesn't support other models. Chital looks very nice and is admirably tiny (3.6MB unzipped!) but doesn't have the editor integration at all, as far as I can tell.

MindMac is an example of an app that meets all the criteria, but for more than it seems like such an app should cost.


+1 for osmo


Recently read “Working in Public” where the author talks about how GitHub is to open source as the new feed was to Facebook/social networks


Smalltalk has a change file and an ability to be source controlled. My understand is that the source controlled output is not human friendly.


https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/blob/Pharo11/src/Anno...

(random class selected)

It's not that human unfriendly, if you know Smalltalk (which is not a terribly hard thing to learn). But you also wouldn't interact with it in that form but rather inside of Pharo and using its class browser.


I've never actually -written- any Smalltalk and can read that code just fine.


Actually there are serializable forms like TOML that are very readable.


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