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

turlockmike — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:48:53 +0000

LLMs don't care about mcp vs CLI. CLIs enable LLMs to fetch/mutate data and build scripts with the same program. I think of it like a Linux dev in a box. Sometimes you want to just call a tool, sometimes you want to write a small program that calls that tool instead.

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

turlockmike — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:18:32 +0000

MCPs are basically just JSON-rpc. The benefit is that if you have applications that require an API key, you can build a server to control access (especially for enterprise). It's the same as REST apis, except by following a specific convention we can take advantage of generic tools (like the one I built) and means you don't need to rely on poor documentations to connect or train a model to use your very specific CLI.

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

turlockmike — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:53:16 +0000

Or use both. Remote MCPs are secure, CLI allows for programmatic execution. Use bash to run remote MCPs.

I built this to solve this exact problem. https://github.com/turlockmike/murl

Show HN: Infer – Pipe friendly Agent Harness with one tool: Bash

turlockmike — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:55:21 +0000

I wanted a lightweight harness to run local models. By constraining it to a single tool (Bash) the focus can be on building the programs around it and making the program itself as close to using a Unix program as possible so that it is also easily fit into any other program.

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New comment by turlockmike in "I quit. The clankers won"

turlockmike — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:44:10 +0000

How many kernel devs does the world need? A dozen or two?

It will be the same with software. AI will be writing and consuming most software. We will be utilizing experiences built on top of that, probably generated in real time for hyper personalization. Every app on your phone will be replaced by one app. (Except maybe games, at least for a short while longer).

Everyone's treating writing code as this reverent thing. No one wrote code 100 years ago. Very few today write assembly. It will become lost because the economic neccesity is gone.

It's the end of an era, but also the beginning of a new one. Building agentic systems is really hard, a hard enough problem that we need a ton of people building those systems. AI hardware devices have barely been registered, we need engineers who can build and integrate all sorts of systems.

Engineering as a discipline will be the last job to be automated, since who do you think is going to build all the worlds automation?

New comment by turlockmike in "So where are all the AI apps?"

turlockmike — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:26:15 +0000

Every problem you described is solvable and while it may not be solved right now or even in 6 months it'll probably be solved within 18 months. It's just scaling and tuning the models

New comment by turlockmike in "So where are all the AI apps?"

turlockmike — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:40:04 +0000

I deleted vscode and replaced with a hyper personal dashboard that combines information from everywhere.

I have a news feed, work tab for managing issues/PRs, markdown editor with folders, calendar, AI powered buttons all over the place (I click a button, it does something interesting with Claude code I can't do programmatically).

Why don't I share it? Because it's highly personal, others would find it doesn't fit their own workflow.

New comment by turlockmike in "Why craft-lovers are losing their craft"

turlockmike — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:21:13 +0000

One craft is automated and a new one is just beginning.

Building AI agents is really fun and the problem of having them be reliable adaptable efficient is actually really challenging and I'm having a lot of fun with it trying to figure it out.

To me it's a lot like factorio or my personal favorite Dyson sphere program where at first you do everything by hand and then you automate and then you automate the automation.

For the first time in human history we can automate intelligence with a computer but just because we can automate it doesn't mean all the good automation is good and we need engineers who can figure out how to automate it reliably scale it deploy it maintain it.

And yes eventually we will automate the automation too.

New comment by turlockmike in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

turlockmike — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 03:53:24 +0000

Unregulate the insurance industries problem solved. Let people actually buy insurance for it's intended purpose. No insurance company would pay these rates willingly, they do it because of all the regulations. They aren't allowed to profit normally, so they find ways around it. Just let them operate normally, like all sorts of other insurance programs.

New comment by turlockmike in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

turlockmike — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:06:45 +0000

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/

New comment by turlockmike in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

turlockmike — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:05:42 +0000

My trading agent builds its own models, does backtesting, builds tools for real time analysis and trading. I wrote zero of the code, i haven't even seen the code. The only thing I make sure is that it's continuously self improving (since I haven't been able to figure out how to automate that yet).

New comment by turlockmike in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

turlockmike — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:03:36 +0000

We have 80 engineers.

New comment by turlockmike in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

turlockmike — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:03:20 +0000

The way LLMs work, different tokens can activate different parts of the network. I generally have 2-3 different agents review it from different perspectives. I give them identities, like Martin Fowler, or Uncle Bob, or whatever I think is relevant.

New comment by turlockmike in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

turlockmike — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:01:54 +0000

The code is still visible if i want to review it.

But since I have a strong rule about always writing unit tests before code, my confidence is a lot higher.

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/

New comment by turlockmike in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

turlockmike — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:21:32 +0000

Not a lot of money because I haven't built enough confidence but yes it's the ultimate test of can it do economically useful work

New comment by turlockmike in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

turlockmike — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:00:34 +0000

Software engineering is being automated. But building intelligent automation is just starting. AI engineer will be the only job left in the future as long as there are things to automate. It's really all the other jobs that will be automated first before AI engineer.

New comment by turlockmike in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

turlockmike — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:58:52 +0000

My advice for juniors is that it's too late to get entry level jobs for software engineering, but AI Automation engineering is just starting. Get a Claude code sub and build whatever you can imagine and focus on improving your own coding agent. Automate one more thing every day.

New comment by turlockmike in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

turlockmike — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:55:54 +0000

I don't disagree, aspects of that will be automated, but two things will remain: Intent and Judgement.

Building AI systems will be about determining the right thing to build and ensuring your AI system fully understands it. For example, I have a trading bot that trades. I spent a lot of time on refining the optimization statement for the AI. If you give it the wrong goal or there's any ambiguity, it can go down the wrong path.

On the back end, I then judge the outcomes. As an engineer I can understand if the work it did actually accomplished the outcomes I wanted. In the future it will be applying that judgement to every field out there.

New comment by turlockmike in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

turlockmike — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:52:52 +0000

I mostly do this for work. These days I'm mostly building tooling for other devs. Observable memory system for coding, PR automation, CLI apps, dev coding dashboard, email automation. All of it integrating AI at various points (where intelligence is useful). All of that in the last two months alone.

Claude code skills represent a new type of AI native program. Give your agent the file system, let it build tools to sync and manage data.

New comment by turlockmike in "Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites"

turlockmike — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:47:57 +0000

Isn't this just RSS with extra steps?