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Previewing the Model Hardware Standard

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Re: Previewing the Model Hardware Standard

#12
It’s actually really cool, and not just for AI. That should make it easy to automate some processes with simple scripts.

Nitpick: it’s annoying that they add Model to those acronyms, for what seems like a fairly universal software interface

Re: Previewing the Model Hardware Standard

#13

I don't want to be that guy but did they invent bluetooth for ai? Like what is MHS actually? I read it twice and still don't get it

More like MCP for robotics. IMO they are better off getting the robots to use existing human UIs than trying to get hardware manufacturers to play ball.

What is the difference of MHS to MCP when it comes to features?

The whole text reads like everything is just a gRPC call that could've also been implemented with an MCP based wrapper.

Re: Previewing the Model Hardware Standard

#14
MCP was a bucket of Not Invented Here nonsense, that ignored years of protocol design. It was incredibly jank and hard to run at any scale, for years and years.

They finally looked at how other protocols do things, and made something that behaves in recent versions. But it's hard as heck to take this company at all seriously. The don't really care about ecosystems (AGENTS.md), they don't seem to know think or care much about protocols until they have to (MCP's incredibly long redemption ark). The vibes are all off.

Maybe they avoid laying their own pitfalls this time. Maybe it's better. It'd be nice to start seeing some kind of cause to trust this company as vaguely capable computer-using people. But so far that hasn't been the case.

Re: Previewing the Model Hardware Standard

#16

I don't want to be that guy but did they invent bluetooth for ai? Like what is MHS actually? I read it twice and still don't get it

It's hard to make LLMs read the manual for an invented language and have them improvise on the spot(1-shot). An established language or a command set that can be included in the training set to be used off top of their head is a lot more reliable and efficient.

The caveat is that actual utility of this particular command set isn't clear yet. Or how many LLM labs will find it worthwhile.

Re: Previewing the Model Hardware Standard

#17

MCP was a bucket of Not Invented Here nonsense, that ignored years of protocol design. It was incredibly jank and hard to run at any scale, for years and years. They finally looked at how other protocols do things, and made something that behaves in recent versions. But it's hard as heck to take this company at all seriously. The don't really care about ecosystems (AGENTS.md), they don't seem to know think or care mu…

I think I agree. I find it a little bit annoying that they do not start by a survey of the existing landscape, discuss the issues and what works well, and spend the effort to show that they can indeed to be trusted as the authority behind such a protocol expected to become standard. For MCP, it started very messy, but from what I understand it was developed by a small team within the company working on internal tooling, for their own use case, I think it’s reasonable to expect something a bit awkward, I don’t think they expected its success

Re: Previewing the Model Hardware Standard

#19
So far Anthropic shows remarkable taste in research, engineering, and product. Dario the ideologist attracts the most pure-minded talent in the industry. It indeed looks like Anthropic would be unchallenged for the foreseeable future. It'll be very interesting to see its downfall in 5-20 years.
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