Yeah, that one sentence was weird. The rest of it was, I thought, interesting. The idea that genAI is so much better in the attack scenario than in the defense scenario. The fact that Claude has been weaponized. That vendors are, as always, chasing buzzwords. Seemed useful to me.
One of my favorite moves is to ask a question that I feel has an obvious answer and then say "what am I missing?" Sometimes I am right, other times I am missing something.
Either way I'm modelling:
- that it's okay to ask questions to which the answer seems obvious
> I'm starting to wonder if we'll need to track prompts with commits, like we track commit messages today. Or design systems assuming the debugger never wrote any of the code.
As we start to truly build software systems with a foundation of genAI, there is no question in my mind that the SDLC will change. I'm not sure how you do either of these suggestions, but they seem like a good start.
> people don’t want to admit that it is a way to senior-free future
Can you tell me more? Everything I've read indicates it affects juniors/new devs more. Is that what you mean by a 'senior-free' future? One in which there are no seniors in 10-20 years because there are no juniors now?
I've been involved with a few MCP servers. MCP seems like an API designed specifically for LLMs/AIs to interact with.
Agree that tool calling is the primary use case.
Because of context window limits, a 1:1 mapping of REST API endpoint to MCP tool endpoint is usually the wrong approach. Even though LLMs/agents are very good at figuring out the right API call to make.
So you can build on top of APIs or other business logic to present a higher level workflow.
But many of the same concerns apply to MCP servers as they did to REST APIs, which is why we're seeing an explosion of gateways and other management software for MCP servers.
I don't think it is a fad, as it is gaining traction and I don't see what replaces it for a very real use case: tool calling by agents/LLMs.
I asked a similar question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472532 on the post where I learned about this list.
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