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I can see the value in a protocol here, but the issue is these efforts are only as good as the industry adoption that they gain: who is using this? MCP came from Anthropic, A2A fro…

Many or even most software engineers are experts in their own codebases though, which means a large proportion of engineers are getting high value out of AI. What’s not clear to me…

> Curious about your definition of these terms. Likewise - I think sometimes we ascribe a mythical aura to the concept of “intelligence” because we don’t fully understand it. We sh…

> The broad consumer reach of ChatGPT creates a powerful distribution channel into the workplace They mention this line in different forms a couple of times in the article. It’s cl…

Interesting - the first thing my mind went to was the DoD supply chain risk designation, and wanting to boost metrics to calm investors nerves

I really like this too - having the previous plan and implementation in place to create the next plan, but then clearing context once that next plan exists feels like a great way t…

I suspect it has something to do with a) the average quality of code in open source repos and b) the way the reward signal is applied in RL post-training - does the model face cons…

Maybe. Another potential, more positive, timeline is that semantically ablated content filling everyone’s feeds turns people off, and slowly kills the social feed paradigm.

Politics is accruing and deploying political capital within an organisation - or less abstractly, building relationships and using them. What you’re describing is a particular form…

If LLMs stopped improving today I’m sure you would be correct- as it is I think it’s very hard to predict what the future holds and where the advancements take us. I don’t see a pa…

kg is the SI unit for mass, I think that would be why

It seems to me that MCP and Skills are solving 2 different problems and provide solutions that compliment each other quite nicely. MCP is about integration of external systems and …

Definitely take that point. But this valuation is perhaps more about how much that traction, brand and data is worth to OpenAI, who cannot buy Copilot. $3bn doesn’t seem so disprop…

Just consider what it fundamentally is: a company at the leading edge of a product category that has found absurdly strong technology/use-case fit, and is growing insanely fast. Lo…

Yeah it's very interesting... It appears to lead itself astray: the way it looks at several situational characteristics, gives each a "throw-away" example, only to then mushing all…

It’s about demand isn’t it? TSMC have red hot demand, it’s not hard to understand their urgency in setting up new fabs, wherever they may be. Intel don’t have the same incentive - …

There’ll always be an advantage for those who understand the problem they’re solving for sure. The balance of traditional software components and LLM driven components in a system …

Sure, if there’s only one long lived large feature branch and everything else is trunk-based style development. If another large feature branch is merged then your regular rebase t…

If you follow the authors advice to its logical conclusion then all changes to the code base are narrowly focussed tweaks - where does the longer term thinking come into this? If I…

What are your axioms on what’s important, if not the continued existence of the human race? edit: I’m genuinely intrigued

Interesting, I wouldn’t say that I’ve found it difficult to run in even a small team. The problem I’ve always had with Airflow has been with non-cron-like use cases, for example da…

I think it’s deeper than that - these companies place product/engineering at the centre of the business, rather than at traditional companies that still see it as a cost centre.

Agree 100%. There's a race to the bottom when it comes to preparation times. One recipe says it takes 20 mins vs one that says 45 mins - which recipe are you going to choose?

> No, but there's such thing as a "somewhat objective album ranking". I wouldn't disagree with that, I'm sure all of the various versions of this list by RS are "somewhat objective…

Is there such a thing as an objective album ranking? Especially when you consider the shifting landscape of music over time. Actually forget the shifting landscape of music, consid…