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I think we all have been working on our own bespoke CLI tools. MCPs are bloated, insecure token hogs. CLIs are easy to write and you can cut it down to only what you need, saving thousands of tokens per prompt. This is another one I'll add to my repertoire of claude CLIs to replace the MCP.

I'm having a problem like this now. I have a library that handles very complex hardware drivers and linkages.

I want people in the company to use it, but it's big and complicated (lots of chipsets and Bluetooth to boot).

I'm trying to design the library so the MCP can tell the LLM to pull it from our repo, read the prompt file for instructions and automatically integrate with the code.

I can't get it to do it consistenlty. There is a big gap in the current LLM tech where there is no standard/consistent way to tell an LLM how to interface with a library (C/Python/Java/etc.)

The LLM more often than not will read the library and then start writing duplicate code.

Maddening.

Man I had a hard time reading this post because of contrast violations. Light gray on dark gray is VERY hard to read.

It was probably a good article tho

Idiotic article with horrible conclusions. I stopped searching for COVID because I don't have to. Every page I visit, every news site I load, has COVID numbers and news at the top of the page. It's thrown in our face every where. Even the google home page has a COVID link. I'm not apathetic at all, idiot. I'm overloaded with COVID info and numbers and death, I can't escape it.

While interesting, I think an equally relevant question is retention rates.

When I was taking my BS the freshman class was packed. While the failure rate was probably on par with this report, many more of the students dropped CS not because of grades and I never saw them again.

Whether it was out of lack of interest or because it wasn't what they through it was (all I wanted to do was build a cooler Halo game) would have been interesting to know.

The effect was even more pronounced after Sophomore year. I suspect Data Structures and Algorithms, which I loved, but could be difficult to digest and may have disillusioned people with that CS or SE actually was.

Is the code a reference to the 3DO game system from Panasonic?