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MCP tool calling under the hood

jdauriemma — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:13:26 +0000

Article URL: https://jeffauriemma.leaflet.pub/3mraol7ln622u

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009068

Points: 2

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New comment by jdauriemma in "Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game"

jdauriemma — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:19:19 +0000

I scored 5. Bank at max power at 5 o’clock from tee, the ball bounces over the wall and skips most of the course.

New comment by jdauriemma in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

jdauriemma — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:43:43 +0000

I'm happy for you; clearly you've had a good experience.

New comment by jdauriemma in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

jdauriemma — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:42:29 +0000

I say the following with sincere concern.

AI is a cool technology but anthropomorphizing it and using the L-word to describe your relationship with it is a symptom of AI psychosis. Respectfully, I suggest that you take a break and touch grass.

New comment by jdauriemma in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

jdauriemma — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:00:16 +0000

> Compilers do not generate impact by themselves either

I did not mean to give the impression that Compilers and other key infrastructure are not impactful. I believe these are deeply impactful.

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jdauriemma — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:14:00 +0000

That both fair and also charitable to the commenter. It's not a given that Fable is "above that baseline," all we can go by is anecdotes and Anthropic's marketing materials. Both tend to be puffed up. And if they're speaking generally about LLM-assisted coding, they could have chosen to say it that way.

New comment by jdauriemma in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

jdauriemma — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:08:02 +0000

The most wide-eyed AI believers I've met are tinkerers. And that tracks; the speed at which we can tinker has become so marvelous thanks to LLM-assisted coding. Tinkering is a process; people get a lot of joy out of the act of building and tweaking things. Outcomes are a secondary or tertiary considerations. AI has massively expanded our ability to act (and therefore tinker) but it can't generate meaningful impact (e.g. "engineering") by itself. Impact > activity.

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jdauriemma — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:58:14 +0000

I'm sorry, but this is borderline silly. Fable has been out for less than a week and you're already making grand pronouncements about its superiority? How much first-hand evidence could you possibly have for that claim?

New comment by jdauriemma in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

jdauriemma — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:22:36 +0000

I'm curious about LLM adoption by faculty. Is it possible that lesson plans and/or slides are being vibe-produced by professors/TAs, potentially reducing quality of instruction?

New comment by jdauriemma in "What I've learned about the trombone"

jdauriemma — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:29:49 +0000

There are limits to the web audio API :) but I did conform to the known waveforms of the trombone when setting the synthesizer values. The frequencies and proportions of the slides and partials are very precise!

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jdauriemma — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:10:36 +0000

I think you'll enjoy this: an acoustically-accurate trombone in the web browser. https://github.com/bignimbus/trombone.js

New comment by jdauriemma in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

jdauriemma — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:43:13 +0000

Can you share a source? Of course the top 5% of _earners_ would pay more, but that's not necessarily the same crew as the top 5% in net worth. And 5% is a large share of the population. I'd be more interested in the top 1% of 1% in terms of wealth.

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jdauriemma — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:08:47 +0000

Whenever I see a document with horizontal rules between headers and the blues and purples that Claude Cowork adds to .docx files, I sigh.

New comment by jdauriemma in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

jdauriemma — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:06:51 +0000

To that I'd add:

* an abundance of ordered and unordered lists

* paragraphs are <= 3 sentences

* _it's not X, it's Y_: "The goal is not to let AI choose for you. The goal is to build a sharper rejection vocabulary." "The biggest decisions are not formatting decisions. They are directional decisions."

* a lot of

breaking up the prose, if you can call it that
* setup statement, then a colon, then a punchline: "AI and LLMs have changed one thing very quickly: competent output is now cheap."
AI-generated essays are listicles at heart

New comment by jdauriemma in "Ask HN: Any interesting traffic patterns in your llms.txt?"

jdauriemma — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:36:39 +0000

I have seen something similar in a site I work on

Ask HN: Any interesting traffic patterns in your llms.txt?

jdauriemma — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:23:09 +0000

For those of you deploying llms.txt in your site root, have you seen any surprising traffic patterns?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444533

Points: 3

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You're all staff engineers now

jdauriemma — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:16:30 +0000

Article URL: https://jdauriemma.com/programming/youre-all-staff-engineers-now

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47416932

Points: 2

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New comment by jdauriemma in "ATMs didn't kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

jdauriemma — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:51:21 +0000

+1, this is my use case as well

New comment by jdauriemma in "RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard"

jdauriemma — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:09:02 +0000

The RFC is a joke, if you couldn't tell. Those are quotes from the text :)

New comment by jdauriemma in "RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard"

jdauriemma — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:39:18 +0000

Next time you post a HN comment, try audibly sighing or pausing for 137 milliseconds first?

Hacker News: jdauriemma

MCP tool calling under the hood

New comment by jdauriemma in "Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game"

New comment by jdauriemma in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

New comment by jdauriemma in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

New comment by jdauriemma in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

New comment by jdauriemma in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

New comment by jdauriemma in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

New comment by jdauriemma in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

New comment by jdauriemma in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

New comment by jdauriemma in "What I've learned about the trombone"

New comment by jdauriemma in "What I've learned about the trombone"

New comment by jdauriemma in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

New comment by jdauriemma in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

New comment by jdauriemma in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

breaking up the prose, if you can call it that* setup statement, then a colon, then a punchline: "AI and LLMs have changed one thing very quickly: competent output is now cheap."AI-generated essays are listicles at heart

New comment by jdauriemma in "Ask HN: Any interesting traffic patterns in your llms.txt?"

Ask HN: Any interesting traffic patterns in your llms.txt?

You're all staff engineers now

New comment by jdauriemma in "ATMs didn't kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

New comment by jdauriemma in "RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard"

New comment by jdauriemma in "RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard"

breaking up the prose, if you can call it that
* setup statement, then a colon, then a punchline: "AI and LLMs have changed one thing very quickly: competent output is now cheap."
AI-generated essays are listicles at heart