This is the biggest elephant in the room I have seen in my decade+ career. At the same time, look how bad Apple is in software compared to its hardware... It's not an AI only problem, it's almost like software in general gets a free pass on being very unsafe or low quality because no one wants to face the same "profit reducing red tape" that civil engineers or similar face.

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CharlieDigital 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Anthropic were the progenitors of the Model Context Protocol. Claude Code does not fully implement the client end of the protocol. A protocol; a literal pre-defined spec that an agent should be able to one-shot. Neither does Codex. Codex does not implement MCP Prompts.

(I want Codex to implement MCP Prompts because then we have one central way to ship skills from a server).

The fact that neither platform can implement a protocol given what is functionally infinite frontier model tokens really says a lot. I do not care what kind of random project some influencer can ship with a swarm of 1000 agents. If you cannot make the basics work, it is a farce.

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deathbob an hour ago | parent [-]

It still boggles my mind that Anthropic would invent the MCP protocol but not fully implement it.

Especially when fully implementing it (prompts, resources, tools) is easily done in harnesses that don’t ship with MCP but allow good extension / modification like Pi.

Claude not being able to see its own usage or self invoke slash commands is also very frustrating.

	▲	oblio 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> It still boggles my mind that Anthropic would invent the MCP protocol but not fully implement it. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/ > Do they just want to force you to keep busy reacting to their volleys, so you can’t move forward?

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forshaper 25 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

How much of all this is due to hardware improving, and software bloating enough to fill the capacity?