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Skill + CLI Considered Harmful — MCP vs Skills vs CLI
MCP vs Skills vs CLI: why agent integrations that ship a Skill plus a CLI look easy but return the version-control problem the web already solved. A Considered Harmful take on fat-client agent tooling versus updatable MCP.
Preface: I Once Worked in Netscape’s Building
A documentary shot revealed that my everyday office had once been Netscape’s. That discovery led me into the dotcom era—and toward questions worth revisiting in the age of AI and agents.
The Spectrum
From vague needs to concrete implementation, each person covers only part of the spectrum. AI shortens that distance and forces a choice between depth and breadth.
Software 3.0 Workshop — Agent Automation Economics
Software 3.0 and code-generating agents are changing automation economics: every genuine niche need is now worth building and testing. Written version of the 2026-08-29 workshop.
The Electricity of Our Era
Token supply is the electricity of our era — on token economics, AI agent token cost, democratization, diminishing returns, and why agent harnesses must be provider-agnostic.
What Kind of People Make Up a Team?
From WoW raid guilds to software engineering — idealists, steady operators, and fringe members. And why AI makes lean teams possible again.
The AI Era Doesn't Need Code Monkeys — It Needs Pioneers
LeetCode can't find the engineers we actually need. On abstraction, openness, and what happens when AI makes everyone a builder.