“caveats and provisos” makes me think of Robin Williams’ genie imitating William F. Buckley Jr.
Have you tried it? I’d recommend doing so, it’s impressive in real use cases.
Lots of MCP hate, and some love, in the comments. 80% of MCPs are thin wrappers over APIs . Yes they stink. A well written remote OAuth MCP need not stink. Tons of advantages starting with strong security baked in. I…
And people forget, Claude Code isn’t the only Claude surface, and CLIs don’t help in other surfaces other than Cowork.
Does anyone else see an echo of Severance (Apple TV series) here?
See my comment above, context-mode has no way to inject itself into the MCP tool-call - response loop. Still high-value, outside MCPs.
I dug into this further. Tested empirically and read the code. Confirmed: context-mode cannot intercept MCP tool responses. The PreToolUse hook (hooks/pretooluse.sh) matches only…
I'm not sure it actually works with MCPs *at all*, trying to get that clarified. How can context-mode get "into the MCP loop"?
Hmmm. I was talking about the output side. When data comes back from an MCP tool call, context-mode is still not in the loop, not able to help, is it? Edit: clarify "MCP tool"
Really intrigued and def will try, thanks for this. In connecting the dots (and help me make sure I'm connecting them correctly), context-mode _does not address MCP context usage at all_, correct? You are instead…
I shared a lot of these uninformed (speaking only for myself) opinions, but have a lot more respect for Peter after listening to his recent 3hr interview with Lex Fridman. I came away liking and respecting.
Slightly off topic but I am writing an Excalidraw MCP that allows Claude Code and Claude.ai to create Excal drawings and then iterate on them — I gave Claude the ability to “see” the resulting drawing via a tool that…
Exactly right.
I strongly recommend against Time Machine to NAS — just mentioned it in an article today as “works great, until it inevitably and catastrophically fails”. Reliable for me is Kopia from Mac to S3 compatible volume…
Using any plugins or skills for that work?
Based on a request presumably from a HN viewer, I made the repo [2] for this site public. [2] https://github.com/cto4ai/cto4ai-blog
I use Astro deployed on Cloudflare, blog-newsletter kind of site [1], moved over from Hugo. If this keeps Astro viable then it seems like a net win. [1] https://cto4.ai
If you aren’t realizing the importance of POSSE imho that’s crazy ;-)
100% confirm Opus 4.5 is very image smart.
Am I the only one who thinks (mobile safari with an ad blocker) it’s a jackass move to show a fake popup that leads to “must be an adblocker” and prevents page viewing? Or maybe just bad JS junk causing it? Update: OMG…
For anyone using Qwen3-VL: where are you running it? I had tons of reliability problems with Qwen3-VL inference providers on OpenRouter — based on uptime graphs I wasn’t alone. But when it worked, Qwen3-VL was…
Ha, I have been steeling myself for a long chat with Claude about “how the F to get AI Studio up and working.” With paying being one of the hardest parts. Without a doubt one essential ingredient will be, “you need a…
Ironically, Claude Desktop--which could be up if it simply used the API instead of doing the Electron webapp wrapper thing--is down.
For me right now, Claude.ai is down, but Claude Code (terminal, extension) seems to be up and happy. Suggests that API is probably up.
“caveats and provisos” makes me think of Robin Williams’ genie imitating William F. Buckley Jr.
Have you tried it? I’d recommend doing so, it’s impressive in real use cases.
Lots of MCP hate, and some love, in the comments. 80% of MCPs are thin wrappers over APIs . Yes they stink. A well written remote OAuth MCP need not stink. Tons of advantages starting with strong security baked in. I…
And people forget, Claude Code isn’t the only Claude surface, and CLIs don’t help in other surfaces other than Cowork.
Does anyone else see an echo of Severance (Apple TV series) here?
See my comment above, context-mode has no way to inject itself into the MCP tool-call - response loop. Still high-value, outside MCPs.
I dug into this further. Tested empirically and read the code. Confirmed: context-mode cannot intercept MCP tool responses. The PreToolUse hook (hooks/pretooluse.sh) matches only…
I'm not sure it actually works with MCPs *at all*, trying to get that clarified. How can context-mode get "into the MCP loop"?
Hmmm. I was talking about the output side. When data comes back from an MCP tool call, context-mode is still not in the loop, not able to help, is it? Edit: clarify "MCP tool"
Really intrigued and def will try, thanks for this. In connecting the dots (and help me make sure I'm connecting them correctly), context-mode _does not address MCP context usage at all_, correct? You are instead…
I shared a lot of these uninformed (speaking only for myself) opinions, but have a lot more respect for Peter after listening to his recent 3hr interview with Lex Fridman. I came away liking and respecting.
Slightly off topic but I am writing an Excalidraw MCP that allows Claude Code and Claude.ai to create Excal drawings and then iterate on them — I gave Claude the ability to “see” the resulting drawing via a tool that…
Exactly right.
I strongly recommend against Time Machine to NAS — just mentioned it in an article today as “works great, until it inevitably and catastrophically fails”. Reliable for me is Kopia from Mac to S3 compatible volume…
Using any plugins or skills for that work?
Based on a request presumably from a HN viewer, I made the repo [2] for this site public. [2] https://github.com/cto4ai/cto4ai-blog
I use Astro deployed on Cloudflare, blog-newsletter kind of site [1], moved over from Hugo. If this keeps Astro viable then it seems like a net win. [1] https://cto4.ai
If you aren’t realizing the importance of POSSE imho that’s crazy ;-)
100% confirm Opus 4.5 is very image smart.
Am I the only one who thinks (mobile safari with an ad blocker) it’s a jackass move to show a fake popup that leads to “must be an adblocker” and prevents page viewing? Or maybe just bad JS junk causing it? Update: OMG…
For anyone using Qwen3-VL: where are you running it? I had tons of reliability problems with Qwen3-VL inference providers on OpenRouter — based on uptime graphs I wasn’t alone. But when it worked, Qwen3-VL was…
Ha, I have been steeling myself for a long chat with Claude about “how the F to get AI Studio up and working.” With paying being one of the hardest parts. Without a doubt one essential ingredient will be, “you need a…
Ironically, Claude Desktop--which could be up if it simply used the API instead of doing the Electron webapp wrapper thing--is down.
For me right now, Claude.ai is down, but Claude Code (terminal, extension) seems to be up and happy. Suggests that API is probably up.
For me right now, Claude.ai is down, but Claude Code (terminal, extension) seems to be up and happy. Suggests that API is probably up.