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New comment by rsalus in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

rsalus — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:04:28 +0000

they need to make 5t-10t back, but not necessarily through selling tokens. as we can see, the frontier labs are making vertically integrated products. their revenue is no longer strictly tied to inference.

New comment by rsalus in "Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad'"

rsalus — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:57:53 +0000

often times the classical Greeks + Romans would cite their family lineage using works of Homer and other poets

New comment by rsalus in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

rsalus — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:27:07 +0000

https://github.com/lvlup-sw/exarchos

It's an SDLC workflow harness for agents. Instead of using skills to encode my typical workflows (e.g., create PRD, then create plan using TDD, then dispatch subagents, etc) I've built a concurrent event-sourced process manager to handle it.

New comment by rsalus in "Principles for agent-native CLIs"

rsalus — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:35:00 +0000

not really.. I never understand the inclination to be reductive. the patterns emerging can be fairly novel.

New comment by rsalus in "Principles for agent-native CLIs"

rsalus — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:31:54 +0000

agree, although the pattern I've been following is to provide a self-contained CLI for portability and usability purposes, and then an "mcp" subcommand which launches an MCP server over stdio. ultimately the "CLI" and "MCP" surfaces act as thin facades over the same functional layer.

New comment by rsalus in "Principles for agent-native CLIs"

rsalus — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:28:56 +0000

the real solution is to simply provide hints in responses so that the model may self-correct, e.g., recommended next actions, describe commands to get schema definitions, etc.

New comment by rsalus in "Commenting and approving pull requests"

rsalus — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:42:19 +0000

100p agree. Most code reviews devolve to nitpicking anyway. I think it's much more valuable for teammates to review the _design_ and _intent_ rather than the explicit artifacts.

New comment by rsalus in "The AI Layoff Trap"

rsalus — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:27:19 +0000

Great paper.

> If AI displaces human workers faster than the economy can reabsorb them

Big if.

New comment by rsalus in "Chrome DevTools MCP"

rsalus — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:44:24 +0000

mostly by virtue of being a common standard. MCP servers are primarily useful in a remote environment, where centralized management of cross-cutting concerns matters. also its really useful for integrating existing distributed services, e.g., internal data lakes.

I think it's clear a self-describing CLI is optimal for local-first tooling and portability. I personally view remote MCP servers as complementary in the space.

New comment by rsalus in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

rsalus — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:19:15 +0000

that's a pretty interesting idea. It would be nice if there was such a standard. the approach I'm taking right now: a CLI that accepts structured JSON as input, with an 'mcp' subcommand that starts a stdio server. I bundle a 'help' command with a 'describe' action for self-service guidance scoped to a particular feature/tool.

New comment by rsalus in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

rsalus — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:15:47 +0000

yes, but clis thus need self-service commands to provide guidance, and their responses need to be optimized for consumption by agents. in a sense, this is the same sort of context tax that MCP servers incur. so in my view cli and MCP are complementary tools; one is not strictly superior over the other.

New comment by rsalus in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

rsalus — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:37:46 +0000

MCP is very much not dead. centralized remote MCP servers are incredibly useful. also bespoke CLIs still require guidance for models to use effectively, so it's clear that token efficiency is still an issue regardless.

New comment by rsalus in "Show HN: Reviving a 20-year-old puzzle game Chromatron with Ghidra and AI"

rsalus — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:36:39 +0000

Doubtful.

New comment by rsalus in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

rsalus — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:31:58 +0000

what does devarch do exactly? why not OSS?