jake-coworker

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by jake-coworker 2mo ago
What MCP really needs is standardized auth. There's maybe 10 different common ways to authenticate against MCP servers, and the average non-engineer can't read the docs to figure out how to configure it. Companies can implement In
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by jake-coworker 2mo ago
one of these claimed is backed by data, one is backed by anecdotes, you can decide which you trust more
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by jake-coworker 2mo ago
Regulation won't beat engineering here. China will continue to release open weight models that are impossible to ban without unprecedented surveillance in Western countries. AI labs need to innovate if they want to win. Open models are
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by jake-coworker 5mo ago
I think this is an artifact of any large organization of people. Humans tend toward doing things that are best for them. The challenge of large-organization-designers (governments, companies, etc.) is how to design a system that 1) leverage
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by jake-coworker 5mo ago
One of my favorite senior developer stances is "I should be annoyed by how many questions you're asking me"
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by jake-coworker 5mo ago
I don't love the title - the article is about differing perspectives/incentives in a company, not about senior developers' inability to communicate That said, I think everyone will agree both extremes are failure modes - movi
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by jake-coworker 5mo ago
Most comments here are about Chromebook/Googlebook hardware. But IMO the more interesting part is AI-native OS features. Unfortunately it seems like not a ton, but I think the future is in custom software created from user prompts. Ie
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by jake-coworker 5mo ago
I think the logical next step is that "XYZ knowledge worker" will become a software engineer of sorts. Not literally writing code, but at minimum encoding processes/workflows into some language. If you're a paralegal or
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by jake-coworker 6mo ago
This is surprisingly close to Haiku quality, but open - and Haiku is quite a capable model (many of the Claude Code subagents use it).
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by jake-coworker 6mo ago
I generally agree - I think anyone who's seriously experimented with agentic coding has encountered both: 1 - Surprising success when an agent can build on top of established patterns & abstractions 2 - A deep hole of "make it
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by jake-coworker 9mo ago
IMO these articles are akin to "Twitter in 200 lines of code!" and "Why does Uber need 1000 engineers?" type articles. They're cool demos/POCs of real-world things, (and indeed are informative to people who hav
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by jake-coworker 11mo ago
I usually share this resource when people start doing this https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/developer/smal...