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Xantier commented on MCP Gateway and Registry github.com/IBM/mcp-contex... · Posted by u/nikhilk218

jumploops · 7 months ago

Does anyone use MCP within their product, or is the MCP ecosystem entirely focused on enabling new workflows within an existing chat/agent framework (a la Cursor or Claude code)?

Assuming the latter, are there any viable non-developer MCP clients?

Xantier · 7 months ago

I've done a bit of research around trying to find the best, simple clients that don't need an engineering degree to set up but haven't really stumbled upon a good one yet. Claude desktop app advertises that they support all features (they don't), all the others with closer to full spec compliance are related to software development (VS Code and Continue etc.).

Xantier commented on MCP Gateway and Registry github.com/IBM/mcp-contex... · Posted by u/nikhilk218

Xantier · 7 months ago

I find the context forge quite nice from IBM. I used a few approaches they've implemented within my Ctxpack context management solution as well.

I think the agentic use cases aside, the client side of MCPs are still lacking quite a bit and would need to mature to be able to catch up to the spec. I feel a lot of use cases exist outside of fully automated agentic approaches, since we can't really rely on LLMs yet to produce at a human level.

The underserved cases rely a lot on prompt and resource management at the moment. Being able to iterate and share those across teams to provide easy starting points to delegate tasks is something I feel would be workable for the current iteration of AI assisted work, outside of pure software engineering.

Hopefully other clients join VS Code Copilot to allow more varied approaches than just simple tool calls here. I think Copilot's approach on prompt and resource management isn't quite the best approach either though. It is still early days for MCPs in general so i think we'll see a lot of experiments in this space.

Xantier commented on RAG 2.0 contextual.ai/introducing... · Posted by u/ozgune

Xantier · 2 years ago

Is this fine-tuning with a more hyped naming? Let's say a company produces 100 documents per day that are appended to a knowledge base. What's the cost and delay to be able to ask questions about these docs whenever a single one is added in?

Xantier commented on Deno vs. Bun vs. Node.js: A feature comparison dev.hexagon.56k.guru/post... · Posted by u/birkskyum

yieldcrv · 3 years ago

My positive experience with NextJS by VC backed Vercel ($2.5bn valuation) makes me not skeptical of a package by mere nature of it being maintained and marketed by a for profit company with heavy VC investment.

Its all about how it integrates and how it avoids vendor lock in.

Xantier · 3 years ago

I feel differently about next.js after their latest shenanigans. Their end goal clearly seems to be vendor lock-in to the Vercel/next.js platform, whichever way it ends up happening. The current attempt looks to be to tweak and assert control over the React library, to make it Vercelified.

Xantier commented on Asia Sentinel Blocked in Singapore asiasentinel.com/p/asia-s... · Posted by u/tim_sw

esperent · 3 years ago

There's nothing surprising here, although it's important to call this out. As I've traveled around SEA a lot over the past few years, I've found that many sites are commonly blocked and surprising how little it seems to be discussed. In particular, medium.com and BBC.com seem to be blocked in at least Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Probably Singapore too. Those are the ones I noticed, I'm sure there are many more blocked that I've not seen.

There's no "great firewall" level blocking going on and the blocks are easily circumvented using a proxy or alternative DNS.

But blocking media sites when they publish anything critical of the government is unfortunately standard in this part of the world.

Xantier · 3 years ago

Neither BBC nor Medium are blocked in Malaysia. I don't understand the reason for spreading disinformation about this.

Xantier commented on Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen mastodon.social/@haeckerf... · Posted by u/ruph123

Xantier · 3 years ago

Had the same issue as well. Dry air in the apartment and flickering screen when interacting with an IKEA chair.

Solved by adding a "tail" to my chair using a piece of old speaker cable. There is a metal part on the bottom of the chair that the tail can be attached to.

Xantier commented on Europe is investing heavily in trains nytimes.com/2022/04/05/tr... · Posted by u/lxm

yodsanklai · 4 years ago

This price isn't representative. To give you an idea, Lyon - Lille tomorrow is between $90 and $130 for a second class ticket. It's a three hours trip. For more context, the median salary in France is about $2000 after tax [1].

[1] https://www.lafinancepourtous.com/2021/06/28/salaire-median-...

Xantier · 4 years ago

Lyon - Lille flight on the other hand for tomorrow is 147 euros (cheap price compared to other days it seems). The flight takes a little bit over an hour, getting to Lyon airport from the city takes about an hour as well (18.20€ with public transport, 50+ with taxi/ride hailing). On the landing end transport to city is luckily cheaper and faster, 45 minutes with public transport, 15 mins and ~20€ with a taxi.

Xantier commented on JetBrains Web UI components open-sourced blog.jetbrains.com/hub/20... · Posted by u/uptown

jorgemf · 9 years ago

I am not sure if you can use the coroutines in javascript, but if you can you don't need React at all

Xantier · 9 years ago

You can use coroutines with Kotlin JS. Your sentence doesn't really make sense to me though since coroutines and React have very little to do with each other.