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amzil
6mo ago
The post isn't MCP vs CLI. It covers where MCP wins. > The entire security posture of "Install this CLI with access to everything on your box" terrifies me This is fair for hosted MCPs, However I'm not claiming the CL
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amzil
6mo ago
Schema validates structure, nothing validates intent. That's the actual attack surface and nobody's talking about it. CLI `--help` is baked into the binary. You'd need a new release to change it. MCP server descriptions can c
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amzil
6mo ago
It helps with cost, agreed. But caching doesn't fix the other two problems. 1) Models get worse at reasoning as context fills up, cached or not. right? 2) Usage expansion problem still holds. Cheaper context means teams connect more se
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amzil
6mo ago
This is a fair trade-off and the post should probably be more explicit about it. You're right that progressive disclosure trades latency for cost and context space. For some workloads that's the wrong trade. The amortization point
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amzil
6mo ago
Great tool, however we went to a dedicated CLI client (think gh, aws, stripe) in Go.
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amzil
6mo ago
Context windows getting bigger doesn't make the economics go away. Tokens still cost money. 50K tokens of schemas at 1M context is the same dollar cost as 50K tokens at 200K context, you just have more room left over. The pattern with
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amzil
6mo ago
Fair point on tool search. Claude Code and Codex do have it. But tool search is solving the symptom, not the cause. You still pay the per-tool token cost for every tool the search returns. And you've added a search step (with its own l
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amzil
6y ago
What's the value of your tool over using asciidoc tools https://github.com/asciidoctor ?
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amzil
6y ago
what is the value of your tool over AsciiDoctor ( https://github.com/asciidoctor ) ?
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amzil
12y ago
I've just submited a message, thanks :)
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amzil
12y ago
Hi, Great service, love it! How to add a new component to your collection ?
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amzil
12y ago
Hi, Great service! How to add a new component ?