tbf, node based editors have been "the year of" every year since blender. they all look like a murder board to me! comfyui especially has a terrible ui/ux IMO
we've been complaining about curl | bash for like 15 years and yet here we are installing every new ai tool the exact same way lol. convenience always wins over security until it doesnt
fair point, but there's a difference between maintaining a CLI you own vs depending on a third party to maintain a wrapper around an API you could call directly. not to mention the mcp protocol is fairly nascent whereas CLIs are much more battle-tested
the "77% cost reduction" number is doing a lot of heavy lifting here when the real play is getting your whole agent stack on cloudflare so switching costs go thru the roof lol
the fact that github still renders Private Use Area codepoints as whitespace instead of flagging them is wild tbh. like we've known about this vector since 2024 and npm/github just shrugged
tbh you can already tell whos using chatgpt to write their emails at work, everyone sounds like the same middle manager now. the homogenization isnt coming its already here
the maintenance burden is the real MCP killer nobody talks about. your agent needs github? now you depend on some npm package wrapping an API that already had good docs. i just shell out to gh cli and curl - when the API changes, the agent reads updated docs and adapts. with MCP you wait on a middleman to update a wrapper.
tptacek nailed it - once agents run bash, MCP is overhead. the security argument is weird too, it shipped without auth and now claims security as chief benefit. chroot jails and scoped tokens solved this decades ago.
only place MCP wins is oauth flows for non-technical users who will never open a terminal. for dev tooling? just write better CLIs.
the wildest part is algolia just not responding. you email them saying "hey 39 of your customers have admin keys in their frontend" and they ghost you? thats way worse than the keys themselves imo. like the whole point of docsearch is they manage the crawling FOR you, but then the "run your own crawler" docs basically hand you a footgun with zero guardrails. they could just... not issue admin-scoped keys through that flow
genuine question - what are you working on that needs that level of privacy? outside of NSFW stuff most API providers arent doing anything with your prompts
tbh i stopped caring about "can i run X locally" a while ago. for anything where quality matters (scripting, code, complex reasoning) the local models are just not there yet compared to API. where local shines is specific narrow tasks - TTS, embeddings, whisper for STT, stuff like that. trying to run a 70b model at 3 tok/s on your gaming GPU when you could just hit an API for like $0.002/req feels like a weird flex IMO
the confirm screen showing the actual command is lowkey the best part. i use ffmpeg daily for video assembly (concat demuxer + xfade + zoompan for ken burns) and honestly the only reason i got decent at it was reading the commands that other wrappers were generating under the hood. most ffmpeg GUIs hide that from you which defeats the purpose IMO - you end up dependent on the tool forever instead of actually learning the flags
the data leak is bad but the write access to system prompts is what keeps me up at night. they could silently rewrite how Lilli responds to 43k consultants with a single UPDATE statement - no deploy, no code review, no logs. imagine poisoning the strategic advice that gets copy pasted into client deliverables. tbh most companies i see doing AI stuff store prompts the exact same way, just rows in postgres right next to everything else
because the incentive structure is broken. if my performance review rewards me for using AI more, im going to use AI more even when i shouldn't. engineers will rubber stamp AI suggestions to hit their metrics instead of actually reviewing the code. you cant optimize for quantity of AI usage and quality of output at the same time IMO
nice, fal is solid. whats the pricing like compared to calling the model APIs directly?
lots of people are asking for my script so i'm open sourcing it fairly soon (openslop.ai if you want to get notified). currently integrating with runware, elevenlabs, cartesia, kling, runwayML but will look into integrating with fal too. would you be open to connecting to helping with integration with fal?