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Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server
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Re: Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server
#72MCP everywhere is going to be such a societal changer. Once your bank and credit cards get MCP servers, that's it. It's next level society. Like, immediately, I want it to order me some groceries based on what it sees in my fridge and what I cook. And to remind me to change my air filters. Or book my vacation for me, knowing I like a mediterranean vibe and Bistecco Florentine. I am absolutely excited for all of this.…
> It's next level society. Like, immediately, I want it to order me some groceries based on what it sees in my fridge and what I cook. And to remind me to change my air filters. Or book my vacation for me, knowing I like a mediterranean vibe and Bistecco Florentine. This thing already exists though, it’s called a personal assistant. And since you’re already not willing to spend $400 a month on getting one, likely rev…
Yah it doesn't exist, since personal assistants do not exist.
The US labor force is at 4.5% unemployment. That's nowhere near enough for everyone to have personal assistants.
Re: Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server
#73Be careful about the new version of Claude.
Its very verbose, it writes a lot of code, but I just caught it, hard coding some replies to an API I was creating an introspection for. All this like in the middle of many hundreds of innocent lines of code.
Go and review every single line of code. This is a pro developer colleague that will fail you when you least expect. Frankly the time savings are minimal for professional quality code.
Some will say it was a problem with the prompt, but I would say it was mimicking the behavior I have seen professional developers do under a deadline. :-)
Re: Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server
#74MCP everywhere is going to be such a societal changer. Once your bank and credit cards get MCP servers, that's it. It's next level society. Like, immediately, I want it to order me some groceries based on what it sees in my fridge and what I cook. And to remind me to change my air filters. Or book my vacation for me, knowing I like a mediterranean vibe and Bistecco Florentine. I am absolutely excited for all of this.…
This sounds like hell on earth to me. Automating the "boring" stuff does not sound healthy.
Two stories:
When my father was in Japan in the 1970s, he was strutting around like a rooster in an obnoxious, white suit and crossed paths with a Zen monk quietly sweeping a path. The monk looked up at him and my father felt, he said, about six inches tall. The dignity and focus of the monk put my father to shame.
I was once in Princeton, NJ, waiting to cross a crosswalk at a streetlight. Someone extremely famous (I think) and certainly incredibly wealthy was in a car at an intersection, waiting for the car in front of her to turn so she could proceed. She was beside herself -- honking, screaming, practically crying. Being asked to wait for someone else was more than she could stand.
Obviously these experiences relied on a lot of assumptions and interpretation on my and my father's part. I'm sure there were other ways of reading the monk and driver.
Regardless, when I imagine the world you're describing, what I see is a combination of my father in the white suit and the driver: spoiled, incompetent, impatient, egocentric people incapable of enduring the indignity of having to make any decisions for themselves, wait for anything, or stoop to the humiliating depths of thinking about the boring stuff. In a weird, backwards way, what you're describing also sounds like subservience to me.
Smartphones are bad for people. This sounds much, much, much worse. I hope I die before/if the technology "matures."
Re: Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server
#75You trust a model to trade for you? Here [0] is a funny paper where a group of llms attempt to manage a vending machine. It ended with them trying to contact the fbi. [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.15840
That was a great read! Thanks for sharing.
Re: Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server
#76MCP everywhere is going to be such a societal changer. Once your bank and credit cards get MCP servers, that's it. It's next level society. Like, immediately, I want it to order me some groceries based on what it sees in my fridge and what I cook. And to remind me to change my air filters. Or book my vacation for me, knowing I like a mediterranean vibe and Bistecco Florentine. I am absolutely excited for all of this.…
This sounds like hell on earth to me. Automating the "boring" stuff does not sound healthy. Two stories: When my father was in Japan in the 1970s, he was strutting around like a rooster in an obnoxious, white suit and crossed paths with a Zen monk quietly sweeping a path. The monk looked up at him and my father felt, he said, about six inches tall. The dignity and focus of the monk put my father to shame. I was once…
> In a weird, backwards way, what you're describing also sounds like subservience to me
Arent we taking the next step to the dystopia portrayed in Matrix. Many of us are already trapped in the social media matrix and manipulated by it. We can now outsource all our cognition and decision making to these machines, and sip cocktails on a beach, while these machines show us the narratives we want to hear.
Re: Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's next level society. Like, immediately, I want it to order me some groceries based on what it sees in my fridge and what I cook. And to remind me to change my air filters. Or book my vacation for me, knowing I like a mediterranean vibe and Bistecco Florentine. This thing already exists though, it’s called a personal assistant. And since you’re already not willing to spend $400 a month on getting one, likely rev…
Yah it doesn't exist, since personal assistants do not exist. The US labor force is at 4.5% unemployment. That's nowhere near enough for everyone to have personal assistants.
A single personal assistant can remind to change AC filters and order food to dozens of people. Also, you can have a personal assistant from another country, since we’re talking about tasks like “order food”, “book vacation”, and “remind”
Re: Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's next level society. Like, immediately, I want it to order me some groceries based on what it sees in my fridge and what I cook. And to remind me to change my air filters. Or book my vacation for me, knowing I like a mediterranean vibe and Bistecco Florentine. This thing already exists though, it’s called a personal assistant. And since you’re already not willing to spend $400 a month on getting one, likely rev…
Surely a personal assistant costs more than $400/month?
That’s 20 remote work hours at $20/hr for a person sitting comfortably in another country, booking vacations for you, ordering you food via Uber Eats, and reminding you to wash your AC filters every quarter. I think it’s reasonable, even on a higher end for lower-income countries.
Re: Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
they said their paper account did 2% over a few months, which is not beating the s&p 500, and is probably why they said "someone could make money off this, but not me"
This year? 2% is most certainly is outperforming the S&P500.
eh, depends on the two months in question.
Re: Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server
#80Would be great to see how you connect the server to data sources to create signal for trades.