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anon7000 commented on GitHub is down again githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/MattIPv4

coffeebeqn · a day ago

Every company I’ve worked in the last 10 years used GH for the internal codebase hosting , PRs and sometimes CI. Discoverability doesn’t really come into picture for those users and you can still fork things from GitHub even if you don’t host your core code infra on it

anon7000 · 18 hours ago

Yep. As someone in a similar position to influence this, I’ll also be pushing for at least significant discounts in our contract. The challenge with migrating off for enterprise is going to be integrations & compliance. There are dozens of options that replicate the core PR workflow that people use, and it’s probably fairly easy to migrate that. The hard part is the hundreds of things that hook into GitHub that don’t have a simple migration, even internal tooling. So it just turns into a pretty big project.

anon7000 commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01

root_axis · a day ago

The issue isn't representation, it's division. The party that won is being well represented with respect to the values of their constituents, whereas the opposition views it as a daily nightmare. These two visions of the world cannot be reconciled.

anon7000 · a day ago

Representation needs to be less about black/white political ideology and more about the specific needs of various people. Farmers need representation, white color workers need representation, small business owners need representation, but their needs are all different, and don’t really boil down to left/right politics. The government isn’t treated as a forum to collaborate on solving problems, but as a playground for the powerful to create boogeymen that get people riled up.

anon7000 commented on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

lII1lIlI11ll · 3 days ago

>As a research topic, modern AI is a miracle, and I absolutely love learning about it. As an economic endeavor, it just feels insane. How many hospitals, roads, houses, machine shops, biomanufacturing facilities, parks, forests, laboratories, etc. could we build with the money we’re spending on pretraining models that we throw away next quarter?

This is a wrong way to look at it. The right way is to consider that AI investments generate (taxable) economic activity that your government can use to build "hospitals, roads, houses, machine shops, biomanufacturing facilities, parks, forests, laboratories".

anon7000 · 3 days ago

Not so much when there’s a race to the bottom for which municipalities, and states can offer the most tax breaks.

anon7000 commented on Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/gfortaine

esperent · 4 days ago

Most MCPs I've seen could be:

1. A cli script or small collection of scripts

2. A very short markdown file explaining how it works and when to use it.

3. Optionally, some other reference markdown files

Context use is tiny, nearly everything is loaded on demand.

And as I'm writing this, I realize it's exactly what skills are.

Can anyone give an example of something that this wouldn't work for, and which would require MCP instead?

anon7000 · 4 days ago

But this is entirely besides the point. The point of MCP is bundling those exact things into a standardized plugin that’s easy for people to share with others.

MCP is useful because I can add one in a single click for an external service (say, my CI provider). And it gives the provider some control over how the agent accesses resources (for example, more efficient/compressed, agent-oriented log retrieval vs the full log dump a human wants). And it can set up the auth token when you install it.

So yeah, the agent could write some those queries manually (might need me to point it to the docs), and I could write helpers… or I could just one-click install the plugin and be done with it.

I don’t get why people get worked up over MCP, it’s just a (perhaps temporary) tool to help us get more context into agents in a more standard way than everyone writing a million different markdown files and helper scripts.

anon7000 commented on Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/gfortaine

bravura · 4 days ago

The last time I looked at MCPs closely, they appeared to pollute context and just hang there consuming context constantly. Whereas a self-documenting API or CLI tool enabled progressive discovery.

Has this changed?

My uncharitable interpretation is that MCP servers are NJ design for agents, and high quality APIs and CLIs are MIT design.

anon7000 · 4 days ago

There has been some improvement in that area.

But at the end of the day, MCP is about making it easy/standard to pull in context from different sources. For example, to get logs from a CI run for my PR, or to look at jira tickets, or to interact with GitHub. Sure, a very simple API baked into the model’s existing context is even better (Claude will just use the GH CLI for lots of stuff, no MCP there.)

MCP is literally just a way for end users to be able to quickly plug in to those ecosystems. Like, yeah, I could make some extra documentation about how to use my CI provider’s API, put an access token somewhere the agent can use… or I could just add the remote MCP and the agent has what it needs to figure out what the API looks like.

It also lets the provider (say, Jira) get some control over how models access your service instead of writing whatever API requests they feel like.

Like, MCP is really not that crazy. It’s just a somewhat standard way to make plugins for getting extra context. Sure, agents are good at writing with API requests, but they’re not so good at knowing why, when, or what to use.

People get worked up over the word “protocol” like it has to mean some kind of super advanced and clever transport-layer technology, but I digress :p

anon7000 commented on Stay Away from My Trash tldraw.dev/blog/stay-away... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

rezonant · 5 days ago

Guy uses his project's GitHub issues as personal TODO list, realizes his one line GitHub issues look unprofessional, uses AI to hallucinate them into fake but realistic looking issues, and then complains when he gets AI slop PRs.

An alternative idea: Use a TODO list and stop using GitHub Issues as your personal dumping ground, whether you use AI to pad them or not. If the issue requires discussion or more detail and would warrant a proper issue, then make a proper issue.

anon7000 · 4 days ago

People can do whatever they want with their own issue trackers, including making them a todo list. They represent real things he wants to see changed in the software

anon7000 commented on GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams iankduncan.com/engineerin... · Posted by u/codesuki

simianwords · 5 days ago

What I find hardest about CI offerings is that each one has a unique DSL that inevitably has edge cases that you may only find out once you’ve tried it.

You might face that many times using Gitlab CI. Random things don’t work the way you think it should and the worst part is you must learn their stupid custom DSL.

Not only that, there’s no way to debug the maze of CI pipelines but I imagine it’s a hard thing to achieve. How would I be able to locally run CI that also interacts with other projects CI like calling downstream pipelines?

anon7000 · 5 days ago

That’s the nice thing about buildkite. Generate the pipeline in whatever language you want and upload as JSON or yaml.

anon7000 commented on Web Builders in 2026 app.webjourney.pro/blog/w... · Posted by u/yshuolu

anon7000 · 6 days ago

Pretty short list for a big market. Lots more WordPress options, other SaaS like Webflow, Squarespace.

It’s just a marketing blogspam page, not very interesting.

anon7000 commented on OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/ope... · Posted by u/Beeroness

woah · 7 days ago

Warning- it's a Gary Marcus article. This is a guy who started out dissing LLMs to pump his own symbolic AI startup, was (likely to his surprise) hoisted on the shoulders of a mass of luddites, and has now pivoted to a career as an anti-AI influencer

anon7000 · 7 days ago

Meh, he’s been very fairly calling out AI companies for over-promising and under-delivering, along with critiquing the idea that training LLMs on bigger data will solve AGI.

He’s vocal and perhaps sometimes annoying, but who cares. A number of his articles have made great points at times when people are loosing themselves with hype for AI. Reality is somewhere in the middle, and it’s good to have more people critiquing what AI companies are doing. Who cares if a lot of the blog posts are short and not that interesting.

anon7000 commented on Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support lists.linuxfromscratch.or... · Posted by u/cf100clunk

p_ing · 8 days ago

Makes no sense to dump a superior kernel and executive for Linux.

The Win32 layer is the issue, not the underbelly.

anon7000 · 8 days ago

I’ve had more hard crashes and BSODs on Windows than any other OS. And I use Linux & Mac more than Windows. Not sure how it’s superior.