markjgsmith

I know I've been a bit critical of MCP the past few days. That's how tech goes. It's definitely how things go in software development. I think it's important to voice your concerns as they happen. That's part of the learning process, for everyone. Some technologies last, some don't, but either way it's okay and good to say what you think.

But it's also important to keep at it. The more you grapple with a new piece of tech the more you get a feel for it, the more you understand how it stands up against the other tech you are familiar with and the more you can see how it fits into the bigger picture.

All this to say, I haven't totally written off MCP, I'm still playing around with it. And I am, somewhat reluctantly I suppose, finding things about it that aren't so bad. #

Jameson Lopp: "Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds just met for the first time 🤯"

One of those tectonic plates shifting momentous moments that mean absolutely nothing to normal people. Tectonic plates isn‘t quite the right way to describe it, but you likely know what I mean. I like the understated subtlety of these types of events. They happen very rarely. I also thought it was kind of interesting that I found out about it on Nostr. Shit I wonder if it‘s fake news.

Update: Seems like it‘s legit. #

An AI house of cards

I‘ve spent much of today getting somewhat confused about all the different API authentication methods. I thought I had it figured out. With the help of the GPTs, figured out OAuth a few days ago. And since then I figured out API Tokens, and Personal Access Tokens (PATs). I thought I had figured out how to integrate them all, but when I tried to write a spec for an MCP server it all got very complicated.

I started reviewing the code that the GPTs had written earlier. On the surface it looked quite good, and it worked. But on closer inspection, it's quite brittle code, rather slap dash and it sort of has this band aid ontop of a band aid ontop of a band aid kind of vibe. Not a lot of cohesiveness. So I‘ve spent the past few hours, refactoring it all, making it much more readable, in the hope that it will start to make more sense. They get you running very fast, but when the house of cards falls down, it falls down pretty badly. #