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by brabel 2mo ago
Because that is convenient and everyone does it??
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by brabel 2mo ago
You can’t be seriously proposing HTTP auth (you probably mean basic auth??) as a solution!? Just hand your raw credentials to the LLM, what could go wrong?
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by brabel 2mo ago
MCP and skills complement each other, it’s not one vs the other. > MCP apps do not have a manual invocation option. If you enable them, they are always on, eating away tokens This is not true of recent harnesses. They will not consume an
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by brabel 2mo ago
You’re asking for AI censorship ( that’s the term used for when you patch the AI to not do obviously bad things according to the owners, which as with any censorship, may be widely different from what you consider bad things). You may be ha
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by brabel 2mo ago
The rovo CLI is beating Claude Code in some benchmarks. It works pretty well for me.
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by brabel 2mo ago
Are you saying you would prefer a perfectly deterministic code writer? So, humans shouldn’t write any code anymore?!
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by brabel 2mo ago
Skills and MCP can be treated by the harness in the exact same way. What do you think is unique to skills that does not apply to how MCP servers are managed?
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by brabel 2mo ago
Because while an agent can indeed call a REST API directly using some other tool ( probably curl) what LLMs are good at is calling tools, and all MCP is doing is turning an API into a tool and standardizing authorization, which if you go th
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by brabel 2mo ago
Even on your own machine with CLI tools , you really think it’s a great idea to let the LLM use the CLI as if it were you, with all permissions you have without any way to differentiate between actions you have manually taken and those that
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by brabel 2mo ago
Show me then how to convert my MCP, including auth, behind a CLI like interface. I don’t think that’s even possible.
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by brabel 2mo ago
Thank you for writing exactly why people who complain about LLMs making it harder to understand what’s going on are so off. Nothing helps more than asking LLMs to tell you exactly what’s going on! They are insanely good at that. I wrote the
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by brabel 2mo ago
I would say any programmer has found themselves so deep in the metaphorical woods that they forgot what they were actually trying to achieve in the first place. For example, you start because your boss told you to implement a new feature, b
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by brabel 2mo ago
I thought the Australians did burn entire forests to the extent that much of Australia is the result of millennia of that practice.
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by brabel 2mo ago
That's the worst case scenario right there: so many fake reports that the real vulnerabilities can no longer be reported properly and fixed quickly. Assuming some LLMs really are capable of finding serious vulnerabilities (which in my
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by brabel 2mo ago
No. There is this persistent belief in the industry that programmers should be good at everything, not just programming itself: communication, product management, design, sysops, UX, coaching, management, testing and so on. The most visible
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by brabel 2mo ago
Yeah people never wanted to update Windows since they had been burned in previous upgrades and their current setup just worked. Not only were upgrades difficult to do and took a long time, many times the new version was just worse or requi
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by brabel 2mo ago
> also buggier, more bloated, and just generally worse than ever. Citation needed. I have seen enormous improvements in bug fixes across our projects and many other companies (one HN headline says Google fixed more bugs in July than in p
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by brabel 2mo ago
The ai does what you ask it to do. One thing you can ask is for it to refactor the code base to achieve some goal, for example to make new features easier to add , or to just make it more readable (though that’s a bad goal, no one agrees wh
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by brabel 2mo ago
We have a QA team but it’s small in comparison to the dev team. We didn’t have one before as we thought automated tests and “good developers” who take testing seriously was enough. Unfortunately, even with extreme automation and huge test s
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by brabel 2mo ago
The idea of apps accessing a database directly instead of going through an API keeps popping up every few years. It never works. And the reason is exactly about authorization. Google CouchApps and read the post they wrote about why doing th
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by brabel 2mo ago
The US just hosted as main host again after only 30 years. Brazil waited from 1950 to 2014 to host again, a full 64 years, and it’s arguably one of the countries most cared about in soccer.
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by brabel 2mo ago
That goes to show they probably don’t fear being caught at all.
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by brabel 2mo ago
I’ve been using stacked prs for many years, AI did not change anything in that area. The advantage is that you can control what lands in the trunk independently of what a particular review contains, and that you can commit freely without ha
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by brabel 2mo ago
Even more basic stuff like copy and paste, which works like everywhere else except the terminal. Can you paste something in the middle of what you already typed in your terminal? Not in mine. It can highlight the stuff as you type it , thou
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by brabel 2mo ago
I stopped running Claude on the terminal and use only the desktop app now. It had lots of advantages in my opinion. The terminal is really limited unfortunately, don’t know why so many devs still stick to it, and I used it for 30 years.
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by brabel 2mo ago
Using a LLM is probably seen as a positive thing by recruiters, it shows you are an AI “Engineer”.
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by brabel 2mo ago
I publish links to my new articles on Reddit , sometimes on Twitter. That’s enough for my posts to get to lots of people, sometimes. And when it happens, Google indexes it and it becomes one of the first links about the topics I covered. An
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by brabel 2mo ago
This is not a simple setup. Most people would be just fine with a static site that can be hosted for free on Netlify, Cloudfare Pages, GitHub Pages and so on.
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by brabel 2mo ago
You probably want Clog: https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog
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by brabel 2mo ago
Hello Hacker news comment police!!! Sorry, remarking on a comment is strictly prohibited unless closely related to the post, and it never happens on this site!

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