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No it's not a new thing. Agents coding their own mcp servers I saw in the original demo of MCP when it was announced in 2024. The other thing is part of the pl

No it's not a new thing. Agents coding their own mcp servers I saw in the original demo of MCP when it was announced in 2024. The other thing is part of the plan&act mode paradigm that plandex also started in 2024. I'm not a cynic, I just follow the scene very closely. This stuff might be new to you, but it's not new. There's literally nothing that this thing is doing that I haven't been doing for a few years already But the other authors didn't go on the Lex Friedman podcast hyping the shit out of their stuff... That's the difference here. I can do this as well. "This is it! The singularity is here. Use this or get left behind! Everybody rush and use my thing! So good I was afraid to put it out, scared of how awesome it is!" I mean brother please...

infecto 8mo ago
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- javier123454321 8mo ago
  I mean, that's a quality of conversation that you can reliably expect in Hacker News.
  - infecto 8mo ago
    No disagreement. It just feels like increasingly it’s getting more cynical. It’s probably the case with most online communities but it’s a shame to see it so much here now.
    - kristopolous 8mo ago
      It's not cynical it's explanatory. Someone asked why it's successful and I restricted myself to making factual verifiable claims.
      - infecto 8mo ago
        It’s not explanatory it’s cynical. If you cannot see it I am sorry brother.
      - corndoge 8mo ago
        Your explanation was helpful and thanks to you and other commenters I think I understand now. Effectively it is just the stack delivered in a shiny package. Another comment said something to the effect of "all of the existing stuff, productized for normies". Makes sense to me. Thanks!
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heliumtera 8mo ago
You forget to mention the cult like audience of karpathy and pelican guy. Whatever pelican guy says becomes the week Show HN theme.
- alterom 8mo ago
  I hate that I understand what "pelican guy" refers to.
  - Ancapistani 8mo ago
    Weird for a random guy that I've met a half dozen times at conferences to be setting taste for effectively my whole professional world.
    - heliumtera 8mo ago
      We never know...
- kristopolous 8mo ago
  simon's stuff is generally good though.
  - heliumtera 8mo ago
    Never said otherwise, legit a legend
RamblingCTO 8mo ago
> This stuff might be new to you, but it's not new. But it's not new to me, I studied this shit. Maybe don't assume so much. Clawdbot was the first where it worked as good as it did. Not BabyAGI or all the other stuff we had before. Similar in approach, but clawdbot just worked better. Might be a synthesis between models getting better, having skills and more MCP servers available and clawdbot having enough integrations to make it interesting, but it doesn't matter. The ipod wasn't the first anyway, but it was the one that made it stick. If you like it or not. > I can do this as well. "This is it! The singularity is here. Use this or get left behind! Everybody rush and use my thing! So good I was afraid to put it out, scared of how awesome it is!" I think that's a you problem tbh. Just check it out yourself and don't buy in on the hype. Simple. Use whatever makes you happy.

infecto 8mo ago

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javier123454321 8mo ago
I mean, that's a quality of conversation that you can reliably expect in Hacker News.
- infecto 8mo ago
  No disagreement. It just feels like increasingly it’s getting more cynical. It’s probably the case with most online communities but it’s a shame to see it so much here now.
  - kristopolous 8mo ago
    It's not cynical it's explanatory. Someone asked why it's successful and I restricted myself to making factual verifiable claims.
    - infecto 8mo ago
      It’s not explanatory it’s cynical. If you cannot see it I am sorry brother.
    - corndoge 8mo ago
      Your explanation was helpful and thanks to you and other commenters I think I understand now. Effectively it is just the stack delivered in a shiny package. Another comment said something to the effect of "all of the existing stuff, productized for normies". Makes sense to me. Thanks!
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heliumtera 8mo ago

You forget to mention the cult like audience of karpathy and pelican guy. Whatever pelican guy says becomes the week Show HN theme.

alterom 8mo ago
I hate that I understand what "pelican guy" refers to.
- Ancapistani 8mo ago
  Weird for a random guy that I've met a half dozen times at conferences to be setting taste for effectively my whole professional world.
  - heliumtera 8mo ago
    We never know...
kristopolous 8mo ago
simon's stuff is generally good though.
- heliumtera 8mo ago
  Never said otherwise, legit a legend

RamblingCTO 8mo ago

> This stuff might be new to you, but it's not new. But it's not new to me, I studied this shit. Maybe don't assume so much. Clawdbot was the first where it worked as good as it did. Not BabyAGI or all the other stuff we had before. Similar in approach, but clawdbot just worked better. Might be a synthesis between models getting better, having skills and more MCP servers available and clawdbot having enough integrations to make it interesting, but it doesn't matter. The ipod wasn't the first anyway, but it was the one that made it stick. If you like it or not. > I can do this as well. "This is it! The singularity is here. Use this or get left behind! Everybody rush and use my thing! So good I was afraid to put it out, scared of how awesome it is!" I think that's a you problem tbh. Just check it out yourself and don't buy in on the hype. Simple. Use whatever makes you happy.