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While that is true, the overarching point is that it fundamentally still is, just a story. You're just describing real world consequences, precisely because humans/societies believe in that story and enforce it.

modern MCP clients do smart tool search that obviates the entire "I am sending the full list of tools back and forth" mode of operation

This has always surprised me as this always comes up in MCP discussions. To me, it just seem like a matter of updating the protocol to not have that context hungry behaviour. Doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem technically.

Glad you say it has already been addressed. Was the protocol itself updated to reflect that? Or are you just referring to off-spec implementations?

That’s exactly what it is in essence. The MCP protocol simply doesn’t have any mechanism specifications (yet) for not loading tools completely in the context. There’s nothing really strange about it. It’s just a protocol update issue.

The MCP standard will and has to evolve to address this context issue. It’s a no brainer and this is a perfect example of the direction mcp is going / will go. There’s fundamentally nothing wrong, it’s just protocols updates that have to occur.

Claude Skills 9 months ago

I'm super confused as well. This seems like exactly that, just some default prompt injections to chose from. I guess I kinda understand them in the context of their claude chat UI product.

By I don't understand why it's a thing in Claude Code tho when we already have Claude.md? Could also just point to any .md file in the prompt as preamble but not even needed. https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-pract...

That concept is also already perfectly specd in the MCP standard right? (Although not super used I think?) https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/ser...

I never understand why there's always one of the top comment on every Go post being derogatory and mentioning Rust. It never fails. It starts to feel like a weird mix of defensiveness and superiority complex.

Claude for Chrome 11 months ago

No one think any form of "prompt engineering" "guardrails" are serious security measures right?

Cursor CLI 11 months ago

That's a funny response I have to admit. No 100% serious, I don't see the advantage.

That's exactly how you should do it. You can also plug in an MCP for your CI or mention cli.github.com in your prompt to also make it iterate on CI failures.

Next you use claude code instead and you make several work on their own clone on their own workspace and branches in the background; So you can still iterate yourself on some other topic on your personal clone.

Then you check out its tab from time to time and optionally checkout its branch if you'd rather do some updates yourself. It's so ingrained in my day-to-day flow now it's been super impressive.

I’m really wondering what internally causes this. No one likes it when they have outages, but it keeps happening. Is this a culture thing? Like pressure to ship features fast? Some under staffed teams or lack of ownership on some crucial components?

Cursor CLI 12 months ago

Because iterating multiple sessions through multiple terminals is obviously more efficient and seamless than interacting thought a scuffed IDE side panel ui.

Deep Agents 12 months ago

Same question. I don’t understand what they mean by that. It obviously seem pretty central to how Claude Code is so effective.

Writing is thinking 12 months ago

There is something much deeper going on when you force yourself to actually write things down. This is especially relevant in engineering. That is why "RFCs" are so prevalent in many tech companies. They are often just as useful to the writer as they are to the reviewers.

"LLMs are one of the technologies that exist, like autocorrection and CAD"

Pretending it's on par with these. No need for more. Seem inevitable enough.