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MCP is currently too difficult to setup and too complicated for consumers to understand. Once somebody big enough figures out distribution and integration a la the App Store, and the market starts to understand MCP integrations as extensions your AI client can orchestrate across (do one thing in App A, another in App B, etc all with a single prompt), it’ll be off to the races.

Precisely, such a change represents substantial risk in an incredibly risk-averse industry. People at orgs in such industries are in constant CYA mode, looking to point responsibility (and therefore blame) to anyone else.

The time to go and implement such a change probably pales in comparison to the amount of time spent in meetings getting people to agree to make the change.

> This is how things like SAFe are born, that try to make "agile safe for the corporation" and of course they're nothing more than corporate BS under an agile name

SAFe was truly one of the worst things I encountered with consulting clients. Planning days were an unbelievable exercise in futility. Waterfall masquerading as agile, the absolute worst of both worlds.

> I also really don't get the apparent hate for react, usually from people who haven't used it all that much

In defence of the haters, I think we’ve all seen our share of horrendously organized React SPAs. Dependency hell, (seemingly) infinite prop drilling, components thousands of lines long, the list goes on.

Some people think they hate React, when in reality they hate a specific implementation of it.

Which abstractions are leaky? State is complex. There’s not really a way to get around that.

I personally would rather create a .drawio file visually and keep that under version control. Sure, the diffs aren’t that meaningful, but that’s what commit messages are for.

Are you suggesting that individuals should carry that liability?

What you’re describing is early Facebook. Your feed was only from your 1st degree connections. Content mattered because it was from people you cared about (and inherently knew, because users wouldn’t accept friend requests from people they didn't know). It really was the pinnacle of social media.

“You don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge” - George Carlin

> why don't I have a device that I can basically run MacOS on and have a detachable keyboard

I think the answer is market cannibalization. Apple would much rather sell you both an iPad and a MacBook Pro rather than just an iPad.

> I put the blame squarely on these institutions and our government for this situation

Maybe we should advocate for some personal responsibility as well. Institutions may have offered dead end programs, banks may have financed it, but many individuals took out these loans quite thoughtlessly.

My 20 year old HP laser jet costs me a minimum of $0 to run per month. And if I go 6 months without printing, it still costs me $0 a month. The math doesn’t line up, it’s a cash grab plain and simple.

> Looking at their cheapest plan which is $7 a month for 20 pages

Clarification, $7 a month for 0-20 pages. That is crazy.

> In place of the old pleasures demanding intelligence and personal initiative, we have vast organizations that provide us with ready-made distractions - distractions which demand from pleasure-seekers no personal participation and no intellectual effort of any sort

This feels true in some sense for every generation; bemoaning the insolence of the current youth feels like a rite of passage. However, it also seems true that the youth of today have a lower barrier of access to “pleasure” than any other humans in history.

What a read! This guy was really in it for the lulz.

> Cole “once took every seat in the stalls at a pretentious and terrible play and gave tickets to many acquaintances. The performance was wrecked, because as soon as the lights went up, the circles and the gallery saw one short and expressive word spelled out by the bald heads of strategically placed men in the stalls.”