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New comment by rubslopes in "MCP is dead?"

rubslopes — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:55:52 +0000

MCP allows you to easily separate API requests from their access tokens, so that the LLM only has access to the requests part. Giving an LLM CLI access removes all boundaries, anything goes.

EDIT: to add an example: I have a personal claw agent that I only use CLI, I don't care. But I'm also building an agent inside a company product, and there we use MCP all the way.

New comment by rubslopes in "Task Paralysis and AI"

rubslopes — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:01:57 +0000

I feel lucky to have been promoted to a management position recently, just as I was starting to feel less excited about dev work because of AI. I still enjoy building systems, but I have to admit that the loss of challenge made the work much less enjoyable for me.

Now I have a team of interns to mentor. They're sharp and use AI constantly, so my guidance is less about code and more about UI/UX, understanding what the client actually wants, good work practices, well-documented tickets, thorough reviews, and so on. Thankfully, I like this work, it has been very rewarding.

New comment by rubslopes in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

rubslopes — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:55:09 +0000

Yes, I do think it is.

HTML made by Claude will, by default, be "sleek, modern", with colorful tables, cards, maybe Tailwind for styling. And, of course it will, if you wanted a barebones HTML, you would just have asked for markdown!

So the LLM decided to present some content using 4 cards, and you now want to add new itens. You can't just add new lines of text: you need to copy the whole HTML of the cards. But the LLM used different colors for each card, so now you have the first cards with varying colors and the new cards all the same color as the last card. Now you have to think about colors... etc etc

New comment by rubslopes in "I'm scared about biological computing"

rubslopes — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:35:00 +0000

> Although it will make up for a "wow, we really did it" moment, it will be met with hollowness

I hadn't heard this view before, but it does make sense...

New comment by rubslopes in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

rubslopes — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:55:21 +0000

People are afraid to touch dangerous things, like passwords and payment systems. Depending on their skill level, they should indeed be afraid.

New comment by rubslopes in "I'm scared about biological computing"

rubslopes — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:45:19 +0000

Correct.

Still, the day we manage to run a full LLM on biological neurons, even if using conventional code under the hood, will be a very interesting day for consciousness discussions.

New comment by rubslopes in "Why TUIs Are Back"

rubslopes — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:26:09 +0000

I thought that that was the case for me, but then I tried using Claude Code through the desktop app last week and it was so bad. Slow, glitchy... I went back to the TUI in no time.

New comment by rubslopes in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

rubslopes — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:03:24 +0000

I don't think the real-world evidence supports your argument... OpenAI and Anthropic have all of those advantages today, and Chinese models are reaching the same level. Clearly, the Chinese labs are doing something very right that is not directly related to infinite money.

New comment by rubslopes in "Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum (2022)"

rubslopes — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:12:43 +0000

Happy birthday to the youngest and oldest!

New comment by rubslopes in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

rubslopes — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:56:57 +0000

I think OP means standardized benchmarks.

New comment by rubslopes in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

rubslopes — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:31:50 +0000

A fellow user replied below, but it refers to the software that uses the LLM (Claude Code, Opencode, pi.dev, etc.).

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Funny you mention that, because I started noticing the word 'harness' being used everywhere about a month ago, even though I hadn’t seen it before (in this context). As I don’t trust my memory, I assumed I had just been overlooking it and added it to my vocabulary. However, a Google Trends search does show increased usage since the end of March: https://trends.google.com.br/trends/explore?date=today%203-m...

New comment by rubslopes in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

rubslopes — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:06:41 +0000

Harness: opencode

Subscription: opencode go

I also use a claw agent[1] via Telegram, which uses pi.dev under the hood with my opencode go subscription.

[1] I forked one of those Claw projects (bareclaw) and made many changes to it.

New comment by rubslopes in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

rubslopes — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:29:38 +0000

April has been a crazy month for open weights models. I've been using Claude Code for work and Kimi 2.6 for personal projects and Kimi has been very good. Glm-5.1 is also great. Qwen, Mimo and Deepseek I need to test some more, but they all have been producing good results. I have the impression that they are all are at the same level, or close to, Sonnet 4.6.

New comment by rubslopes in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

rubslopes — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:50:22 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Just tried it and it worked great between MacOS and Android.

New comment by rubslopes in "Is my blue your blue?"

rubslopes — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:43:21 +0000

90% here, and it makes sense. I'm very picky about saying something is blue!

New comment by rubslopes in "Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay"

rubslopes — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:47:41 +0000

I was confused about why your comment was being downvoted; it sounded like an honest opinion... Until I got to the last sentence. You wrote a self-fulfilling prophecy.

New comment by rubslopes in "South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf"

rubslopes — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:18:03 +0000

If this was true, they should have contacted the user nevertheless.

New comment by rubslopes in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

rubslopes — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:10:51 +0000

Was this thread invaded by AI? Casually reading the first comments, 3 different users mentioned they had a recent "mental health incident" related to caffeine??

Search this page for "mental health incident"

New comment by rubslopes in "Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)"

rubslopes — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:06:16 +0000

I had more luck finding "similar minds" in academia.

New comment by rubslopes in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

rubslopes — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:06:31 +0000

Before GLM-5.1, I was going back and forth between Opus 4.5 and Kimi 4.5 and having very good results with Kimi.