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New comment by grensley in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

grensley — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:13:53 +0000

The "only skills" people are usually non-technical and the "only CLI" people are often solo builders.

MCP makes a lot of sense for enterprise IMO. Defines auth and interfaces in a way that's a natural extension of APIs.

New comment by grensley in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

grensley — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:01:53 +0000

Absolutely textbook "Brilliant Jerk". Dude just whines and whines and whines. If you're so good, why can't you get anybody to work with you?

New comment by grensley in "MCP is dead; long live MCP"

grensley — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:09:57 +0000

On the other hand, I've seen over-centralization completely crush the hopes and dreams of people with good ideas.

New comment by grensley in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

grensley — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:54:22 +0000

Same as it ever was: Either trade secrets or license files that are treated as suggestions.

New comment by grensley in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

grensley — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:09:31 +0000

Here's a list of Flock's investors:

- Andreessen Horowitz

- Greenoaks Capital

- Bedrock Capital

- Meritech Capital

- Matrix Partners

- Sands Capital

- Founders Fund

- Kleiner Perkins

- Tiger Global

- Y Combinator

New comment by grensley in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

grensley — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:14:13 +0000

Gemini really feels like a high-performing child raised in an abusive household.

New comment by grensley in "Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole"

grensley — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:38:06 +0000

A la carte in AI is going to be the name of the game for a couple reasons:

- Avoids regulatory scrutiny (for now at least)

- Nobody is actually entrenched enough for customers to matter

- Weird "celebrity" culture in tech, and AI especially. Everyone is looking for a "whisperer" or a "godfather" or whatever.

- Investors still get paid out

Smart operational talent will probably adapt by demanding higher salary, signing bonuses, severance packages in lieu of equity. Distribution of the true "lottery tickets" will get more uneven.

New comment by grensley in "A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash"

grensley — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:12:20 +0000

I was always looking for them because I was the weird nerd pointing out proper em dash, en dash, and hyphen usage years and years ago.

It's really only devs / engineers I see doing this, probably in some quest to create an indistinguishable voice in the name of productivity or something.

New comment by grensley in "A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash"

grensley — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:49:22 +0000

I've noticed people using emdashes more in known non-AI text in what I assume is a smokescreen to maintain plausible deniability when they wholesale copy AI text.

It's so interesting to me that human writing is subtly changing to mirror AI writing.

New comment by grensley in "Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet"

grensley — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:59:01 +0000

The transmission network is underbuilt, so it's mostly best to generate closer to where it's consumed (especially for data centers).

We'll continue to see a mix though of Residential / Commercial & Industrial / Utility Scale

There are about 7,000 Utility scale sites in the US right now, so even the big boys there are fairly distributed.

New comment by grensley in "How Anthropic teams use Claude Code"

grensley — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 05:20:28 +0000

Claude Desktop is one of the buggier applications I've ever used and one of our jokes internally is that it seems like it was very clearly vibe coded.

New comment by grensley in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

grensley — Thu, 22 May 2025 01:59:28 +0000

More like they see the future as more multi-modal, and they're probably right to think that is the best value approach vs. throwing more money at large language models.

New comment by grensley in "Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings"

grensley — Sat, 10 May 2025 23:38:47 +0000

I take screenshots because they're definitely going to forget to share the presentation.

New comment by grensley in ""Normal" engineers are the key to great teams"

grensley — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 01:02:13 +0000

I agree with you, but in a different directions. Often the software is owned by the company, who are just renting the engineer's labor.

New comment by grensley in "“Normal” engineers are the key to great teams"

grensley — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:58:42 +0000

> Individual engineers don’t own software; engineering teams own software.

Very assertive, but almost always incorrect.

New comment by grensley in "String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'"

grensley — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:12:50 +0000

I don't know if these statistics are even kept, but the current social environment in the US feels like a ripe breeding ground for cults. I've had so many people in the past couple years be like "I just want to farm with my friends and family and get away from all this".

New comment by grensley in "Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die"

grensley — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 03:47:08 +0000

This site is basically the Target to 4chan's Walmart.

New comment by grensley in "Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die"

grensley — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 03:45:00 +0000

> Batteries that can store the internet in them for when your connection goes down.

This is now my favorite way to explain caching.

New comment by grensley in "GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic"

grensley — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 01:39:47 +0000

I think there's a number of factors that make it work as well as it does for me:

- Mostly writing React

- Not using any obscure or new libraries

- Naming things well

- Keeping logic simple

- Leaving a comment at the point where I'm about to make a shift from what the common logic would be

- Getting a feel for when it's going to be able to correctly guess or not (and not even reading it if I think it's going to be wrong)

- Trusting short blocks more than long ones

New comment by grensley in "How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me"

grensley — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 02:35:27 +0000

The KPIs of these people's own lives have failed to grow quarter-over-quarter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYvhC_RdIwQ