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manojlds··on Adventures in Symbolic Algebra with Model Context Protocol
Yup

this is what the tools response for the mcp server looks like:

{ tools: [ 0: { name: "factor" description: "Factor an integer" inputSchema: { ... } 4 items } ] }

manojlds··on A Research Preview of Codex
We (dare I say we instead of I) like talking to computers and AI is another computer you talk with. So I am still all excited. It's people that I want to avoid :)
manojlds··on A Research Preview of Codex
And with themselves and their models. The Codex open source had prompt to disambiguate it from the model.
manojlds··on Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code
Yeah that's what I do, remove the comments as I read through.
manojlds··on Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools
Isn't Claude trained to work better with XML tags
manojlds··on AI code is legacy code?
Every code is.
manojlds··on Game preservationists say Switch2 GameKey Cards are disheartening but inevitable
This thing already happens with download only games being sold. At least with the game cards you can sell the card again which you can't with the keys.

So essentially this is an improvement and you won't even know it if you only buy first party games.

manojlds··on The hidden cost of AI coding
Play with Cursor or Claude Code a bit and then make a decision. I am not on the this is going to replace Devs boat, but this has changed the way I code and approach things.
manojlds··on The Future of MCPs
Well, LLMs are not so smart for starters.
manojlds··on Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding
https://aider.chat/
manojlds··on What, exactly, is an 'AI Agent'? Here's a litmus test
But they muddle it by saying all of them are Agentic Systems
manojlds··on Evolving Scala
My favourite was always Akka Streams. I loved working with it so much.
manojlds··on Show HN: We made an MCP Server so that Cursor can build anything from API Docs
Isn't code for humans as well then?
manojlds··on USA asks Sweden for help in the egg crisis
No tariffs?
manojlds··on Why Go?
But not why not C#
manojlds··on Why Go?
Makes no sense, when there is C#.
manojlds··on I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days
Rising tide lifts all the boats and all that.

Claude Code didn't feel that different to me, and maybe they have something that is better and when they do release it they can say hey look, we pushed hard and have something that's better than even Claude Code.

manojlds··on Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order
> was a capital crime

> track down witnesses

Am I too naive that I think that's a worthy use of that information?

manojlds··on Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents
It's ok GPT
manojlds··on Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents
Airplanes don't fly by flapping their wings.
manojlds··on Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO
Please don't post if you can't understand an example.
manojlds··on Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO
Yeah exactly, companies just have to say the price increase is due to tariffs and increase their margins. That's exactly what Acer CEO is doing here.
manojlds··on You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)
Necessary, but not sufficient.

By your reasoning, looks like you are still a junior /s

manojlds··on Representing Graphs in PostgreSQL
Yeah Cypher was so good and made everything so intuitive. Loved working with Neo4J for a prototype and then had to face the licensing issues and huge costs and had to abandon it.
manojlds··on Why Does Integer Addition Approximate Float Multiplication?
The inverse is about the negative power right? Square root is the 0.5
manojlds··on Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut
Yeah but you can front run a (active) mutual fund
manojlds··on Vanguard's Average Fee Is Now Just 0.07% After Biggest-Ever Cut
That was the platform fees.
manojlds··on Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut
You mean an index fund?
manojlds··on Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout
With all the rate limits on Sonnet 3.5, people only want more of these models. We haven't even seen wide adoption yet.
manojlds··on Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout
How are you running it, can you be more specific?
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