Are MCP calls composable in e.g. codex yet? e.g. can a model pipe a jira MCP call to grep or sed, or at least into a file? Last I looked at MCP it was just a vastly worse version of curl, .netrc, and some text files describing calls (which are themselves greppable). Is there anything useful beyond that that I'm missing?
This is too dense. You might as well just post some Python code with sufficient comments to get the same point across. I think a nicely written article with a few diagrams would go a long way. Sometimes less is more.
MCPs don't really need this level of technical explanations (it's basically just a REST API with standardized endpoints for discovery aimed at agents), and AI agents really do lack in the taste dimension when it comes to these things.
Yeah, this feels like one of those ‘explainers’ that feel like they are great to someone who already knows how the system works, but don’t actually work for newbies because they tacitly assume knowledge of the shape of the system that seems ‘obvious’ to someone steeped in it.
I couldn't find a github link, if anyone knows where to find the code for this, I'd like to modify it to make it a primer more friendly to non-technical managers.
Literally just give the link to Claude/GPT/etc. and it'll be able to replicate it easily. Hell, just loosely describe this as a text prompt and they'll probably nail it one shot. This is basically the "default" interactive explainer one-pager that all of these models generate.
I've been thinking alot about developer education and while I think this format is fun to fiddle with, I feel this(and a lot of technical learning resources) are no longer as valuable as they would have been in a world without LLMS. Now if I wanna learn something I ask claude and I can essentially build my knowledge incrementally, have it build animations iteratively, ask questions and essentially derive an understanding.
This is noisy slop that doesn't explain anything. Maybe try starting with a definition and a single diagram?
I swear when I see stuff like this is makes me depressed about the future of our industry. Pick up an Edward Tufte book or something and use your brain
Yep. This is what we get when people that didn't study UX and product development have access to AI. They have good ideas, ask AI to generate it and can't see that the result is unbearable.
MCPs don't really need this level of technical explanations (it's basically just a REST API with standardized endpoints for discovery aimed at agents), and AI agents really do lack in the taste dimension when it comes to these things.
I swear when I see stuff like this is makes me depressed about the future of our industry. Pick up an Edward Tufte book or something and use your brain