I like Anthropic’s plugin system. I wish everyone would standardize on it instead of everyone having a billion different ways to do slash commmands, skills, etc.

Anthropic wants to ditch MCP and not be on the hook for it in the future -- but lots of enterprises haven't realized its a dumb, vibe coded standard that is missing so much. They need to hand the hot potato off to someone else.

Even Anthropic walked back on it recently wihh the programmatic tool calling

They haven't really. One of their latest blog posts is about how to retrofit the "skills" approach to MCP[0], which makes sense, as the "skills" approach doesn't itself come with solutions for dynamic tool discovery/registration.

[0]: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use

You proved my point

> Tesla Recalls All Vehicles After AI Autopilot Becomes "Too Sentient: A Cybertruck that began driving to therapy sessions its owner hadn't scheduled

> npm Package "is-even" Now Has More Dependencies Than the Linux Kernel

:D :D

I love this

Gemini, grok, etc all have 100x better experiences with voice. Apple is bad at this.

I’m an hour from Cambridge, MA. Ask the weather? I always get Cambridge, UK. Siri is terrible.

They can’t even make a functional keyboard anymore. The text prediction and autocorrect is worse now than it was in 2010!

These are all solved problems in 2025.

They haven't really updated Siri though? That's still in the pipeline. So not a very fair comparison. The article states that they are behind and I think everyone knows that

They have though, they added the "ask ChatGPT" thing which is friggin useless

I'm pretty sure Jim had aspirations of being IBM CEO but they picked Arvind instead.

exactly. standard move when you aren't going to get a second shot.

It baffles me that we've spent decades building great abstractions to isolate processes with containers and VM's, and we've mostly thrown it out the window with all these AI tools like Cursor, Antigravity, and Claude Code -- at least in their default configurations.

Plus arbitrary layers of government censorship, plus arbitrary layers of corporate censorship.

Plus anything that is not just pure "generating code" now adds a permanent external dependency that can change or go down at any time.

I sure hope people are just using cloud models in hopes they are improving open source models tangentially? Thats what is happening right?

So Gopher?

gopher over http: Seems like firefox et al removed support for it years ago.

Gemini's native protocol isn't HTTP, they invented their own. I don't really see what this does you couldn't do with simple HTML pages (or Gopher 35 years ago).

Even simple HTML pages may require Javascript and want to run code on your computer or phone. You need knowledge of the document, knowledge of its author, or constant keepup and awareness of browser settings (e.g. did some update re-enable Javascript) to mitigate this.

A .gmi is 100% certain not to need any extra code capable of potential unwanted external communications, not now and not in the future.

Also .gmi is extremely simple and can be rendered very simply (and thus more securely) because it can be processed nearly statelessly line by line, without need of a rendering tree or document model.

I think some of the point is what you can’t do with it rather than what you can. It’s an intentionally very restrictive protocol.

Nothing.

But that's not the point.

... which looks even more stupid when you can force quite a number of browsers to get you something through gopher if you just pretend it's http on port 70. of course you have to self interpret the result, but gophermaps are quite readable. :)

From the brand that brought you “people don’t want CarPlay”

"Trust us," I whisper, as I condemn yet another product to the planned obsolescence graveyard.

Ah yes, let's put our multibillion dollar ecommerce site on... checks notes Hetzner.

Lol

The problem is the roll out as the bees knees by anthropic, when its.. just some JSON slop without a ton of careful thought behind it.

I think it should be mostly thrown away and start over with an MCPv2 that has first class auth, RBAC/identity, error handling, quotas, human-in-the-loop controls, and more.