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MCP is currently too difficult to setup and too complicated for consumers to understand. Once somebody big enough figures out distribution and integration a la the App Store, and the market starts to understand MCP integrations as extensions your AI client can orchestrate across (do one thing in App A, another in App B, etc all with a single prompt), it’ll be off to the races.

Precisely, such a change represents substantial risk in an incredibly risk-averse industry. People at orgs in such industries are in constant CYA mode, looking to point responsibility (and therefore blame) to anyone else.

The time to go and implement such a change probably pales in comparison to the amount of time spent in meetings getting people to agree to make the change.

> This is how things like SAFe are born, that try to make "agile safe for the corporation" and of course they're nothing more than corporate BS under an agile name

SAFe was truly one of the worst things I encountered with consulting clients. Planning days were an unbelievable exercise in futility. Waterfall masquerading as agile, the absolute worst of both worlds.

> I also really don't get the apparent hate for react, usually from people who haven't used it all that much

In defence of the haters, I think we’ve all seen our share of horrendously organized React SPAs. Dependency hell, (seemingly) infinite prop drilling, components thousands of lines long, the list goes on.

Some people think they hate React, when in reality they hate a specific implementation of it.

Which abstractions are leaky? State is complex. There’s not really a way to get around that.

I personally would rather create a .drawio file visually and keep that under version control. Sure, the diffs aren’t that meaningful, but that’s what commit messages are for.

Are you suggesting that individuals should carry that liability?

What you’re describing is early Facebook. Your feed was only from your 1st degree connections. Content mattered because it was from people you cared about (and inherently knew, because users wouldn’t accept friend requests from people they didn't know). It really was the pinnacle of social media.

“You don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge” - George Carlin

> why don't I have a device that I can basically run MacOS on and have a detachable keyboard

I think the answer is market cannibalization. Apple would much rather sell you both an iPad and a MacBook Pro rather than just an iPad.

> I put the blame squarely on these institutions and our government for this situation

Maybe we should advocate for some personal responsibility as well. Institutions may have offered dead end programs, banks may have financed it, but many individuals took out these loans quite thoughtlessly.

My 20 year old HP laser jet costs me a minimum of $0 to run per month. And if I go 6 months without printing, it still costs me $0 a month. The math doesn’t line up, it’s a cash grab plain and simple.

> Looking at their cheapest plan which is $7 a month for 20 pages

Clarification, $7 a month for 0-20 pages. That is crazy.

> In place of the old pleasures demanding intelligence and personal initiative, we have vast organizations that provide us with ready-made distractions - distractions which demand from pleasure-seekers no personal participation and no intellectual effort of any sort

This feels true in some sense for every generation; bemoaning the insolence of the current youth feels like a rite of passage. However, it also seems true that the youth of today have a lower barrier of access to “pleasure” than any other humans in history.

What a read! This guy was really in it for the lulz.

> Cole “once took every seat in the stalls at a pretentious and terrible play and gave tickets to many acquaintances. The performance was wrecked, because as soon as the lights went up, the circles and the gallery saw one short and expressive word spelled out by the bald heads of strategically placed men in the stalls.”

Yep:

“Most of the revenue of Mozilla Corporation comes from Google (81% in 2022)” [0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation

I know parent said “see it”, but a more accurate phrase would be “experience it”. What’s going wrong can be very nuanced, and it’s a bit naive to think you could diagnose complex industrial machinery by watching a few cameras.

> We should expect them to provide a basic option (which they do) and for sophisticated consumers to pay more for a much better option

GitHub is fairly feature rich imo, _especially_ when compared to something like CodeCommit on AWS. I’ve been forced to use CodeCommit on client engagements and it’s absolutely horrid. Honestly if your tool supported CodeCommit I’d say the value proposition would skyrocket.

Microsoft is using React Native for Windows [0] for their Office applications [1]. As a fan of RN this would be the first avenue I’d explore if I had to develop something for Windows.

[0] https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/ [1] https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/resources-s...

It fell out of favour for one of the same reasons the author cites - that third party dependencies were a dumpster fire. I would say that as frustrating as this can be with React Native, Cordova was substantially worse.

Vendr seems to be on the right track.

https://www.vendr.com/

> In my direct team of 10 people, myself included, I have completed 71% of all story points in 2022, the other 9 are responsible for the other 29%

This just sounds like another example of Price’s Law. Seems like you’ve climbed the ladder of competency at your organization, and now there’s nowhere else to go.

I’ll leave you with this quote from Garry Tan:

“At every job you should either learn or earn. Either is fine. Both is best. But if it's neither, quit” [1]

Sounds like you might need more on the side of learning here. Good luck.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/garrytan/status/13776619701789736...

“No Dad stop counting!” is how my toddler retorts. Works wonders though!

I start by making the decision. Wait a day, then see how I feel about it. If I’m reasonably confident, I go to a few people that I trust and tell them about the decision I made. I get feedback, and take some time to process it. Adjust my decision if necessary, and if so repeat the process.

If there’s a time limit (decision needs to be made by this day) I still go about the same process, but if I’m not 100% confident by the deadline I don’t make the decision (as in, whatever decision is made by default or which minimizes change).

I agree to some extent. The “medium is the message”; let the outcomes of post frequency be determined by the structure of the platform. Whether that structure should be more prescriptive than descriptive though is certainly up for debate.

> I did try to improve the office productivity as a whole a few times by patching up the wonky database they used for accounting, but got shut down each time because of fear of change

I too have found that accounting is where new ideas go to die. They don’t really understand the technology that their jobs are bound to, so any increase in perceived complexity is just a no-go.

> EDIT: find some common ground with your fellow man and strengthen those bonds

Agreed. Never underestimate what you can learn from others.

Child care generally comes with a lot of regulation in developed countries. One such regulation being “one caregiver per n children”. If n is too large, the quality of care is poor, and if n is too small, the cost of care per child is too high. Developed countries tend to keep n small, thus the cost is untenable for many low/middle class families.

Here’s a question: how do you solve this problem without the government subsidizing child care costs?