You may dislike MCP, and there are certainly valid arguments to be made there, but that doesn't mean you can replace it with skills. If you could replace a given MCP server with a skill it would only indicate that someone misunderstood the assignment and chose the wrong tool in the first place. It wouldn't indicate the superiority of one thing over the other.

This whole article, and it's current rank on HN (#5), is making me feel like I took crazy pills this morning. A colleague suggests this Skills vs MCP discourse is big on Twitter, so maybe I lack the necessary background to appreciate this, but aren't these different tools, solving for different things, in different ways? Is this parody? Am I falling into a bot engagement trap by even responding to this? The article certainly reads like LinkedIn drivel, with vague, emphatic opinions about nothing.

However, your argument starts to erode for me when you claim you'd rather spend a few months to build your own moat. You're not just choosing to incur that cost once when you build it. You're incurring a multi-month charge of developer cost that doesn't result in anything being produced for every dev you add to the team, as they have to learn the ins and outs of your proprietary abstraction without the aid of any documentation (assuming) or community to help when they get stuck. This also means a large part of your time is now spent reactively answering pings for special case questions and "what does this opaque error mean" and "how come this thing doesn't work when I do that thing"? And good luck hiring devs who are excited to work on your special creation, not to mention how you have to adapt your hiring process to determine who will be likely to succeed in such an environment. That sounds like a lot of stress to place on a fledgling company trying to grow at a crucial stage and could certainly be a contributing factor in your post-mortem when things don't work out.

By contrast, by advertising for React vs Angular devs we can expand our candidate pool 5-10x and anticipate reduced ramp up time and increased velocity out of the gate. And since hiring and growing my team is one of the most expensive and difficult things I'm grappling with, that's what I'm optimizing for. In the battle between pragmatism and idealism, pragmatism wins the day once again.

Conflating nicotine use and smoking suggests you do NOT understand the health implications. Even though the 2 have historically been close to intertwined they're not the same thing. This mentality is understandable due to years of frightening PSAs but it's inaccurate and precisely why issues like this hiring policy arise.

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We're looking for engineers 2 & 3 to join me and the rest of our small and growing team to help us change the landscape of online vintage and secondhand shopping. We need hungry self-starters with some prior software dev experience. Fashion is a diverse industry and we reflect and value that at our company. Having recently closed our seed round of funding we're rapidly expanding. We've built an app for efficient uploading of products and inventory management, as well as our customer-facing ecom marketplace. In addition to building out those systems there are new ones to create that have yet to be specced. Your work will have a massive impact on our growth and success.

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