Correct me if I'm wrong but the UX difficulty with the Google API ecosystem isn't resolved. It's the goddamn permissioning and service accounts. Great to have a CLI that every other minute says, "you can't do this" -- the CLI really needed to solve this to check my boxes.
Google Workspace CLI
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Re: Google Workspace CLI
#72Haha in the world of AI/MCPs, all of a sudden we have a push for companies to properly build out APIs/CLI tools.
About 90% of “make codebase better for LLMs” is just good old fashioned better engineering that is also good for humans.
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Totally. I was just remarking today how funny it is that it was apparently ok for humans to suffer from a dearth if documentation for years, but suddenly, once the machines need it, everyone is frantic to make their tools as usable and well-documented as possible
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
To my knowledge NPM isn't shipped in _any_ major OSes. It's available to install on all, just like most package managers, but I'm not sure it's in the default distributions of macOS, Windows, or the major Linux distros?
No package manager is. But of the ones that are installed by users, npm is probably the most popular.
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Well, mostly because you can now task an LLM with writing the docs.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
No package manager is. But of the ones that are installed by users, npm is probably the most popular.
What about pip? It's either installed or immediately available on many OSes
This is about eight years old. The python situation has mostly gotten worse since https://xkcd.com/1987/
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#77Why cli instead of just HTTP API doc? The agent can use curl or write code to send requests.
CLI is probably more reliable. Also, the ergonomics for the person setting up the machine for the AI are better. They can check to see if the command is working without screwing with curl. It's also possible a human might want to use the software / service they're paying for.
Why is it more reliable?
The human usage point is fair, but I doubt how long it is still necesary.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
No package manager is. But of the ones that are installed by users, npm is probably the most popular.
What about pip? It's either installed or immediately available on many OSes
system pip w/ sudo usually unleashes Zalgo, i’d rather curl | bash but npm is fine too. it’s just about meeting people where they’re at, and in the ai age many devs have npm
if you build for the web, no matter what your backend is (python, go, rust, java, c#), your frontend will almost certainly have some js, so likely you need npm.
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This. I’ve been genuinely excited about MCP from the start mostly because you can use it by hand, too.