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Yea Claude sucks at minesweeper (and many spatial reasoning tasks), but isn’t an idea of MCPs is that Claude should be able to ask an MCP what the next best mov
by breckenedge 2y ago
Yea Claude sucks at minesweeper (and many spatial reasoning tasks), but isn’t an idea of MCPs is that Claude should be able to ask an MCP what the next best move is rather than figuring it out itself? Like offload hard thinking/reasoning to purpose-built solvers because they are deterministic? Though I guess you’d expect a reasoning model to be able to come up with its own solvers on the fly, especially for well-known problems. Maybe having access to an MCP itself is confusing it?
- fragmede 2y agoMCP generically connects Claude to an environment, so it can be used to connect Claude to minesweeper, and then also to connect it to a CSP solver. Or a calculator and a dictionary. Or your GitHub and a devbox. Or Unity and a 3d printer.
- breckenedge 2y agoCurious, I’ve yet to see Claude effectively use Unity.
- fragmede 2y agoThat repo's only a week old, give it some time. Did Mario not do it for you? https://youtu.be/dCC7QoV5a6E https://youtu.be/dCC7QoV5a6E
- breckenedge 2y ago2 days old :D where are people seeing these releases announced? I swear we need an MCP weekly email digest
- emersonmacro 2y agoPulse MCP has a weekly email digest
- dartos 2y agoMCP is analogous to REST. It doesn’t define what behavior should be where in a given app, just how to communicate what that behavior is and how to invoke it.
- breckenedge 2y agoRPC, not REST
- paulddraper 2y agoLike neither one. RPC and REST are architectural patterns/philosophies, not protocols. SOAP and HTTP are protocols, like MCP.
- dartos 2y agoIf we’re being technically correct, yes, but I was just trying to give an analogy to someone who I figured was pretty new to web tech.
- paulddraper 2y agoWe have time, but there is a lot to do.
- prats226 2y agoThis seems like intended usage? The server actually executes the moves and interacts with the environment, the core orchestration or reasoning is offloaded to claude?
- breckenedge 2y agoRight, reasoning was offloaded to Claude. Claude is obviously terrible at Minesweeper. I’d like to see Claude orchestrate both playing the game as well as using another MCP to help it pick the next best move. Otherwise it’s just wasteful getting an LLM to reason about an already solved problem, it just chews up API requests. I followed the Manifold market for a while getting ChatGPT to play Sudoku —- each puzzle cost ~$20 to complete.