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DrammBA··on You said no MCP
You answered "Why use MCP with your agent instead of using CLI manually?" but the more interesting question is "Why build an MCP when you could already point your agent to the CLI?". The user experience of "the agent will present those as nice choice menus I can decide schematically on" will probably be the same since agents are very adept at using cli tools and gathering required/optional arguments, examples, and warnings/errors to present you with useful choices on how to proceed.
DrammBA··on GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
> They're advertising GLM for free.

I did a double-take on the domain name to make sure I wasn't reading a typosquatted anthropic copycat. It was a glowing review too, I didn't know GLM 5.3 was that good at cyber.

DrammBA··on Claude partial outage
Joke's on you, after the AI economic collapse in a few years $1000 will have the purchasing power of 50 cents of today's money.
DrammBA··on Windows 11½
n=1 here, I had a 2019 intel macbook for 6 years going through 5-6 major mac os versions and never had a process stuck the entire weekend, now I have a 2026 macbook and still no weird stuck process
DrammBA··on ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you
Disney seems to be taking a very hands-off approach when it comes to government use, so I doubt they'll do anything about this police case.
DrammBA··on The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
I love how casually you're dropping this incredible piece of internet lore as if somebody asked you how's the weather.
DrammBA··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
https://youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo - [It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard is Broken]
DrammBA··on I Added a Non-Wi-Fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant
> Some AC can go ridiculously low (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/3144803.stm).

Did you just post a link to a 23 year old news article with no sources on an http-only site as supporting evidence that your airbnb unit's AC unit can go dangerously low?

You really think your guests will get frostbite if you don't do them the favor of limiting the AC temperature (with the unintended side-effect of saving you some money)?

DrammBA··on Neki – Sharded Postgres
Folks, your blog post sucks at marketing.

Edit: your marketing site actually has excellent marketing information.

Edit #2: They've since replaced the blog post with a link to the marketing page. Good reaction time.

DrammBA··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
This is almost reaching Kubrick’s joke about wanting to film the fake moon landing on location.
DrammBA··on Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

DrammBA··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
I don't have twitter or reddit either, I've just seen what people post online
DrammBA··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
If twitter and reddit have demonstrated anything is that the fun people are having with image generation is not healthy.
DrammBA··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
Some times it's okay to mean it.
DrammBA··on Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open
Actually they are taking one from Anthropic's playbook and saying it's the user's fault for misunderstanding what "sharing" means.
DrammBA··on DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices
That's just "a bunch of extensions of varying quality from one developer" with extra steps
DrammBA··on DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices
It's all about trade-offs, do you want a bunch of extensions of varying quality from a bunch of developers, or do you want a bunch of extensions of varying quality from one developer?
DrammBA··on $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
I wish I could see it with fresh eyes without the accumulated knowledge I have of how AI looks. What does this video look like to a person clueless about AI?

What do they think of the constant repetition of slow panning shows where barely anything is happening, or a guy spinning on the floor but his head morphs into his feet and his feet morph into his head, or a person kissing a mirror that isn't quite mirroring the person and it slowly becomes a person kissing what appears to be their identical twin standing on the other side a floating empty mirror frame?

DrammBA··on OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court
I understood it more in the line of preventing a company from naming itself "Low sugar" and then blocking other companies from adding the words "Low sugar" to their packaging. Same thing with OpenAI, another company should be free to create an AI that's fully open and tag it as "Open AI" without fearing legal problems with OpenAI.
DrammBA··on Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)
AFAIK 7-9 hours is the commonly used range, anything less than 7 hours or anything more than 9 can have detrimental effects on how well rested you feel after waking up. Where did you get the notion that adults need exactly 8 hours on the dot?
DrammBA··on Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you)
I wanted to ask, why did you go with reverse-engineering using network traffic instead of decompiling the app locally and looking for endpoint definitions?
DrammBA··on Precursor
cmd+F mouse movement 3 result, 3/3: "Mouse movement is just one example of the signals Precursor evaluates"
DrammBA··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
> I’m running the same model on a 48GB MBP with a q4 quant and it’s pretty decent.

Context size?

DrammBA··on The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
Also a very good game, https://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/
DrammBA··on Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion
> I think you should be allowed to stop supporting software or shut down your servers.

That has nothing to do with Stop Killing Games.

DrammBA··on Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
I believe that's the one thing BAM refuses to acknowledge, they have no legal possesion of the lego sets, that's the beginning and end of it. They are trying their damnest to hide that fact behind a consignment/contract/franchise/corporate/arrests/heroin/lawsuit curtain of smoke.
DrammBA··on Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
I was so confused by many comments in this post but thanks to you I realized that some people are apparently reading it as 26B and that's why their comments make no sense.
DrammBA··on When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing
It sucks to treat the workplace as adversarial, but we unfortunately have to as long as companies have the zero-sum mindset of "wow, everyone is so productive and we're achieving so much, why do we have so many people again?"

And I'm not a "at work we're a family!" guy, but I wish we could just be excellent at our jobs and share it with each other without worrying if I'm digging my own grave.

DrammBA··on Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
> including somewhat complicated solo card games

any suggestions?

DrammBA··on Redis array: short story of a long development process
> He is not "your avg dev" and it took him 4 months with llm.

To clarify, from TFA:

> even before LLMs the implementation was likely something I could do in four months. What changed is that in the same time span, I was able to do a lot more

The initial timeframe was 4 months, he was able to do more work within the same timeframe with LLMs.

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