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Re: The Early Days of AI

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Post by antoniojtorres » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 3:27 PM UTC

isoprophlex wrote: post #2

is this slop? is this an ad? it's both! dont bother reading this. besides the overwrought statement in the title there is nothing novel or intellectually stimulating here, and it wants to sell you something.

It has all the tells, em dashes as far as the eye can see, it even has the “Let me explain” from ChatGPT.

Re: The Early Days of AI

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Post by tobihrbr » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 3:31 PM UTC

isoprophlex wrote: post #2

is this slop? is this an ad? it's both! dont bother reading this. besides the overwrought statement in the title there is nothing novel or intellectually stimulating here, and it wants to sell you something.

It's an honest opinion that I had put into a blog post. It's written by me, though I did use LLMs to review and improve it (no copy pasting). I still feel like the analogy between early browsers and the current state of AI stands. There is in a sense a war being fought out and there are emerging standard and there is lot's of glue around that to make it work.

Re: The Early Days of AI

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Post by tobihrbr » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 3:32 PM UTC

antoniojtorres wrote: post #11

isoprophlex wrote: post #2

is this slop? is this an ad? it's both! dont bother reading this. besides the overwrought statement in the title there is nothing novel or intellectually stimulating here, and it wants to sell you something.

It has all the tells, em dashes as far as the eye can see, it even has the “Let me explain” from ChatGPT.

I wrote the post in notion which converts "--" to emdashes automatically.

Re: The Early Days of AI

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Post by didacusc » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 3:33 PM UTC

isoprophlex wrote: post #2

is this slop? is this an ad? it's both! dont bother reading this. besides the overwrought statement in the title there is nothing novel or intellectually stimulating here, and it wants to sell you something.

Thank you for saving me many minutes. It has happened more and more recently that 'interesting' headlines lead to AI slop blog posts and it just all feels like such a waste of time. Sad that content has degenerated in this way.

Re: The Early Days of AI

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 3:34 PM UTC

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Re: The Early Days of AI

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Post by tobihrbr » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 3:39 PM UTC

wrs wrote: post #10

“Most people reading this” are under 25? Where’d you get that statistic?

I took the statistic from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery). I'm not sure about the age part though :)

Re: The Early Days of AI

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Post by kreetx » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:25 PM UTC

MCP isn't jQuery in the sense that it's supposed to be a standard or description of some sort, while currently isn't quite there yet: wrote about it from a brief reading here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44386078.

Re: The Early Days of AI

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Post by zer00eyz » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:29 PM UTC

jimbokun wrote: post #4

zer00eyz wrote: post #3

A better comparison would be XML. What comes out of the other side will be better than what we have, but still not good... The next phase of XML agents is going to be its YAML age, better but not great, and we will just deal with it.

No, jQuery is a good analog for MCP. The author is absolutely right about the NxM -> N+M transition.

No its not.

People still use jQuery... if you think any one is going to use any of the ductape and baling wire builds we have today I have news for you.

Everything we're building now is far more temporary, it's the DHTML/xhtml era.

Re: The Early Days of AI

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Post by mock-possum » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 6:41 PM UTC

antoniojtorres wrote: post #11

isoprophlex wrote: post #2

is this slop? is this an ad? it's both! dont bother reading this. besides the overwrought statement in the title there is nothing novel or intellectually stimulating here, and it wants to sell you something.

It has all the tells, em dashes as far as the eye can see, it even has the “Let me explain” from ChatGPT.

Also more than a few “it’s not X, it’s Y”

Re: The Early Days of AI

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Post by mock-possum » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 6:41 PM UTC

isoprophlex wrote: post #2

is this slop? is this an ad? it's both! dont bother reading this. besides the overwrought statement in the title there is nothing novel or intellectually stimulating here, and it wants to sell you something.

Isn’t it a rule that if you’re going to write about LLMs you have to use an LLM to do it?