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jbrisson

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About jbrisson

Digital architect

Montreal, Canada

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46007811

    Consciousness implies self-awareness, in space and time. Consciousness implies progressive formation of the self. This is not acquired instantly by a type of design. This is acquir…

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    Comment #45067650

    "In the 90s, Microsoft tried to “embrace and extend” the web, but failed. And that failure was a blessing." Basically MS tried to kill the web with their Win95 release, the infamou…

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    Comment #45028157

    Languages come and go. There was a time when there was a huge momentum behind Ruby (and Rails). It is not (sadly) the case anymore. It is a matter of traction. C'est la vie. I reme…

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    Comment #44608501

    Yeah... and even 1995! When I experimented with MCP servers via stdin/stdout, I felt projected back in time in the good-old CGI scripts era.

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    Comment #44608369

    MCP is not mature enough to put servers in an Internet facing position. Unless you put gateways (inspecting JWTs, filtering out sensitive data) in front of them. Spec still has a l…

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    Comment #43835137

    Exploring MCP (model context protocol) using Claude as a base LLM. I understand that this is quite new and may change a lot in the next few months but I feel something interesting …

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    Comment #38408072

    Imho, in order to reach AGI you have to get out of the LLM space. It has to be something else. Something close to biological plausability.

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    Comment #10303970

    I'd say it depends on your data model. If it is fairly simple, Ruby on Rails is quite awesome. I didn,t experiment with Clojure, Scala, etc. but RoR is a quite impressive toolset t…

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    Comment #9493522

    Apart from the legal aspects, a problem I see is the day you'd have X subscribers paying to get your (aggregated) content, what if some sources (playing cat/mouse with you, or not)…

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    Comment #5018924

    the price, the length, the commitment (15-20 hours versus 25 hours per week)