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   by re5i5tor 1mo ago

   Have you tried it? I’d recommend doing so, it’s impressive in real use cases.
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   by re5i5tor 6mo ago

   Lots of MCP hate, and some love, in the comments. 80% of MCPs are thin wrappers over APIs . Yes they stink. A well written remote OAuth MCP need not stink. Tons of advantages starting with strong security baked in. I like Cloudflare Code Mo
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   by re5i5tor 6mo ago

   And people forget, Claude Code isn’t the only Claude surface, and CLIs don’t help in other surfaces other than Cowork.
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   by re5i5tor 6mo ago

   Does anyone else see an echo of Severance (Apple TV series) here?
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   by re5i5tor 7mo ago

   See my comment above, context-mode has no way to inject itself into the MCP tool-call - response loop. Still high-value, outside MCPs.
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   by re5i5tor 7mo ago

   I dug into this further. Tested empirically and read the code. Confirmed: context-mode cannot intercept MCP tool responses. The PreToolUse hook (hooks/pretooluse.sh) matches only Bash|Read|Grep|Glob|WebFetch|WebSearch|Task. When I call
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   by re5i5tor 7mo ago

   I'm not sure it actually works with MCPs *at all*, trying to get that clarified. How can context-mode get "into the MCP loop"?
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   by re5i5tor 7mo ago

   Hmmm. I was talking about the output side. When data comes back from an MCP tool call, context-mode is still not in the loop, not able to help, is it? Edit: clarify "MCP tool"
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   by re5i5tor 7mo ago

   Really intrigued and def will try, thanks for this. In connecting the dots (and help me make sure I'm connecting them correctly), context-mode _does not address MCP context usage at all_, correct? You are instead suggesting we refactor
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    by re5i5tor 7mo ago

    I shared a lot of these uninformed (speaking only for myself) opinions, but have a lot more respect for Peter after listening to his recent 3hr interview with Lex Fridman. I came away liking and respecting.
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    by re5i5tor 7mo ago

    Slightly off topic but I am writing an Excalidraw MCP that allows Claude Code and Claude.ai to create Excal drawings and then iterate on them — I gave Claude the ability to “see” the resulting drawing via a tool that runs a rendering pipeli
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    by re5i5tor 8mo ago

    Exactly right.
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    by re5i5tor 8mo ago

    I strongly recommend against Time Machine to NAS — just mentioned it in an article today as “works great, until it inevitably and catastrophically fails”. Reliable for me is Kopia from Mac to S3 compatible volume (minio) on Synology.
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    by re5i5tor 8mo ago

    Using any plugins or skills for that work?
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    by re5i5tor 8mo ago

    Based on a request presumably from a HN viewer, I made the repo [2] for this site public. [2] https://github.com/cto4ai/cto4ai-blog
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    by re5i5tor 8mo ago

    I use Astro deployed on Cloudflare, blog-newsletter kind of site [1], moved over from Hugo. If this keeps Astro viable then it seems like a net win. [1] https://cto4.ai
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    by re5i5tor 8mo ago

    If you aren’t realizing the importance of POSSE imho that’s crazy ;-)
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    by re5i5tor 8mo ago

    100% confirm Opus 4.5 is very image smart.
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    by re5i5tor 8mo ago

    Am I the only one who thinks (mobile safari with an ad blocker) it’s a jackass move to show a fake popup that leads to “must be an adblocker” and prevents page viewing? Or maybe just bad JS junk causing it? Update: OMG I turned ad blocker o
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    by re5i5tor 10mo ago

    For anyone using Qwen3-VL: where are you running it? I had tons of reliability problems with Qwen3-VL inference providers on OpenRouter — based on uptime graphs I wasn’t alone. But when it worked, Qwen3-VL was pack-leading good at AI Vision
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    by re5i5tor 10mo ago

    Ha, I have been steeling myself for a long chat with Claude about “how the F to get AI Studio up and working.” With paying being one of the hardest parts. Without a doubt one essential ingredient will be, “you need a Google Project to do th
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    by re5i5tor 10mo ago

    Ironically, Claude Desktop--which could be up if it simply used the API instead of doing the Electron webapp wrapper thing--is down.
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    by re5i5tor 10mo ago

    For me right now, Claude.ai is down, but Claude Code (terminal, extension) seems to be up and happy. Suggests that API is probably up.
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    by re5i5tor 10mo ago

    For me right now, Claude.ai is down, but Claude Code (terminal, extension) seems to be up and happy. Suggests that API is probably up.
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    by re5i5tor 10mo ago

    For me right now, Claude.ai is down, but Claude Code (terminal, extension) seems to be up and happy. Suggests that API is probably up.
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    by re5i5tor 11mo ago

    I NOW UNDERSTAND
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    by re5i5tor 11mo ago

    Where have I heard that name … oh this little apocalypse https://failure.museum/marchfirst/
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    by re5i5tor 11mo ago

    ;-) Confirmed by trying. I'm working on an AI-frontend "documents-as-code" tool, and having this as a skill that works across all Claude surfaces would be a huge win. Unfortunately it looks like that's not gonna happen t
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    by re5i5tor 11mo ago

    Simon, this won't work, will it? The code execution environment can reach the internet?
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    by re5i5tor 1y ago

    Did you try few-shotting examples when you hit problem cases? In my ziploc case, the model was failing if red sharpie was used vs black. A few shot hint fixed that.