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Comment · 2 months ago
In this thread I’m seeing a couple of the typical skill arguments. Skills don’t pollute the context window and, skills are more flexible and composable.

In this specific post the SQL example gets around this by being super low-level, inherently composable, and low context consumption itself. I’m not sure this works for everyone.

Looking at the Linear MCP for example, they basically just want to expose an API surface and provide 32 MCP tools as a result of that. My agents do run into composability problems here all the time and fall back to the tool they included which allows you to run arbitrary GraphQL. This takes a couple tries usually. I don’t really know what the sensible alternative to this is.

Cloudflare switched to “code mode” which basically provides 2 MCP tools: search and execute. Both take a TS arrow function, the first allows you to programmatically search a TS api spec, the second to compose and run the methods in that spec.

I think this is a very interesting approach, and certainly better than providing the ~1000 actions as MCP tools but I feel the jury is still out on exactly how well this pans out.

Comment · 4 months ago
Any other tips, I have basically the same thing.
Comment · 5 months ago
As someone who has used Deno on multiple hobby projects, I’m convinced Deno is where the JS ecosystem should be heading.

Professionally though, it’s complicated recommending it outside of specific and mostly tightly scoped use-cases. At some point the project just changes direction because of business reasons and you need node.

Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
This might have changed but Warp was not able to do this without “warpifying” the SSH host.
Comment · 6 months ago
CLI-first inventory management for EE parts. https://willwillems.github.io/tray

Fully local, hobbyist friendly, agentic workflows work great with it since it’s just a CLI.

Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
My workday is fully automated now using this tool that I’ll sell you…
Comment · 8 months ago
I know what you mean, biggest gripe I have with this game is how important it is to play the meta and boom early if you want to win at anything other than easy mode.
Comment · 8 months ago
To be fair, for major features 30m to an hour isn’t out of this world. Browser testing is critical at this point but it _really_ slows down the AI in the last 15% of the process.

I can see overnight for a prototype of a completely new project with a detailed SPEC.md and a project requirements file that it eats up as it goes.

Comment · 8 months ago
Poster is not from the US and has no interest in relocating due to the current political situation. This is a common sentiment among non-US but western professionals right now. Had the location been different, they probably would have been interested.
Comment · 10 months ago
I think it’s very typical of post-rat and thus Aella that these things can exist at the same time and don’t invalidate or negate each other.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’ve been using Warp (for the AI features) for a while now, but less and less these days. They’re way too agile with the UI/UX, things change around too much for it to be what it is supposed to be.

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