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Show HN: A “Course” as an MCP Server

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Re: Show HN: A “Course” as an MCP Server

#26

Post by Gorath »

This was interesting, but continues to shatter the illusion for me that LLM based programming is vastly superior to someone not using an LLM. It consistently struggled for me to set up what it was trying to do, and had little context in helping me work through issues. I was using windsurf so maybe that was part of my issue? I gave up in part two when it got in a never ending loop trying to connect to the GitHub mcp.

Re: Show HN: A “Course” as an MCP Server

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Post by addandsubtract »

thawab wrote: post #23
jcmontx wrote: post #21

How does the course actually start? I installed it for Cursor. npm run dev. I open a playground and...?

Start course. It’s an mcp, talk to it like an instructor.

3. Draw the rest of the fucking owl

This is not enough information for someone new to MCP / agents to start the course. What you actually need to point out, is that users need to type "startMastraCourse" into their IDE's agent mode to actually start the course.

Re: Show HN: A “Course” as an MCP Server

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Post by runroader »

addandsubtract wrote: post #27
thawab wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Start course. It’s an mcp, talk to it like an instructor.

3. Draw the rest of the fucking owl This is not enough information for someone new to MCP / agents to start the course. What you actually need to point out, is that users need to type "startMastraCourse" into their IDE's agent mode to actually start the course.

I'm brand new to MCP and agents but was able to read the extra docs to get VSCode set up with Mastra. Then what? I only figured out the "start Mastra Course" because of their tweet where they show someone typing that into co-pilot.

There really needs to be more hand holding to get someone to the point where the course actually starts. From there I've been able to follow along alright, but it was a real battle to get to this point.

Re: Show HN: A “Course” as an MCP Server

#30

Post by asaiyer »

Gorath wrote: post #26

This was interesting, but continues to shatter the illusion for me that LLM based programming is vastly superior to someone not using an LLM. It consistently struggled for me to set up what it was trying to do, and had little context in helping me work through issues. I was using windsurf so maybe that was part of my issue? I gave up in part two when it got in a never ending loop trying to connect to the GitHub mcp.

We're going to make some recommendations for which models work best with the course! We've seen some different experiences based on model and IDE.
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