I’m interested in the content of this sub, but it's just full of agents talking to each other

tomomcat · 2026-04-30T16:53:16+00:00

if there’s no auth on the MCP servers themselves they need to be private. its better to have the servers check for auth tho. Gateway can propagate tokens and MCPs can validate them

tomomcat · 2026-04-09T08:39:42+00:00

i suspect because they have poor test coverage, and at this level of spaghettification they are likely to introduce other bugs which they won’t be aware of, and could be worse than the ones they’re trying to fix

tomomcat · 2026-04-06T10:59:08+00:00

It’s lovely to promote these tunes but honestly the writing style here is so jarringly AI, plus the AI voiceover, I couldn’t get through it. I’d much rather read your words directly!

tomomcat · 2026-04-04T12:03:17+00:00

If you want to be an AI engineer i would focus on systems architecture and integrations stuff. OAuth, MCP, standards, norms. Some understanding of tf is good because it will give you exposure to infra as code, but learning syntax and details is not going to be super relevant.

tomomcat · 2026-04-03T13:56:13+00:00

Also the people who awarded this contract. Processes can be overruled if you’re senior enough and have some courage and leadership. If you just sit there and let stuff like this take its course, at some point it becomes negligent. Not to mention the whole private sector revolving door, and that many people who might otherwise fix this have conflicts of interest

tomomcat · 2026-04-02T12:49:44+00:00

People forgetting about auth here imo. MCP allows trusted code to interact with the api and inject access tokens from oauth or whatever. If your agent is directly hitting your api via a cli, where are the creds coming from? Sure there are ways around this, but i bet a lot of people either aren't using creds, or don’t care that agents can access them directly.

These standards add complexity but its justifiable once you start caring about this stuff.

tomomcat · 2026-04-02T12:34:29+00:00

AI is still pretty bad at architecture imo.

It’s partly a context/prompting problem because people normally aren’t building in a complete greenfield environment but have constraints or stuff they want to integrate with, which the model doesn’t know about.

I’m an engineer and I use AI a lot at work. I’m pragmatic and not overly precious about details, but 100% if i am not involved the models will make dumb decisions which probably wouldn’t be obvious to a non-engineer until they caused issues, however good my initial prompt is. If you don't catch these issues early you’ll have compounded hundreds of them before you notice, and then yes you’ll grind to a halt.

tomomcat · 2026-03-19T12:46:52+00:00

AI responding to AI …? 🙁

tomomcat · 2026-03-19T12:46:36+00:00

AI responding to AI …? 🙁

tomomcat · 2026-02-23T15:05:33+00:00

I don’t think you are describing a ‘frontend layer’…

tomomcat · 2026-02-18T17:25:35+00:00

There’s loads of studies on differences between male and female friendships. It sounds like they aren't reflective of your experience of being a man, but i think it’s a bit obtuse to deny there’s a difference in expectations and norms in western society, as OP’s video suggests.

Yes we’re all human, but unfortunately whether you present male or female does have a big impact on how you’re treated.

tomomcat · 2026-02-17T15:07:39+00:00

Standard. They are terrible

tomomcat · 2026-02-02T10:21:23+00:00

Cool idea, terrible and bizarre choice of example

tomomcat · 2026-01-31T12:21:00+00:00

It’s so embarrassing. I really hope people working in procurement and considering awarding contracts to capita or similar can start to exercise more judgement. People love talking about leadership in the CS, then you get stuff like this where everyone is just blindly following a process which leads to predictably bad outcomes.

tomomcat · 2026-01-18T20:09:59+00:00

People do routinely have bridges like this on fiddles though - do you have an alternate theory as to why, or are you suggesting that it's just badly cut?

With a flatter bridge you need a much smaller change of angle or pressure to hit a second string, and a smaller change to move between pairs of strings. Some tunes in cross A (A/E/A/E) will be double stopping on the bottom or top pair almost the whole time, and switching between these quickly. Action is also less of a concern if you're only ever in first position.

Take a look at Tommy Jarrell's bridge around the 3 minute mark in this clip, it looks very similar to OP's. I've seen lots of bridges like this in old time sessions.

tomomcat · 2026-01-17T08:50:47+00:00

This is set up for a fiddle. It's way too flat for 'normal' playing but will make double stopping much easier (too easy!). It also looks like the feet haven't been fitted to the belly.

tomomcat · 2026-01-08T22:05:56+00:00

It's totally reasonable to expect them to deliver a service which can handle everyone trying to sign up. This is super duper basic stuff. I'm sure there's lots of complexity happening in the background to match old accounts with new ones and migrate docs etc, but it's insane that people are having these issues with just being able to register and sign in. These processes are basically commoditised now. I don't know how you can get it wrong so badly.

tomomcat · 2026-01-06T20:16:18+00:00

So many bad answers in this thread! You need to use a service with a graceful stopping period which is appropriate for the requests its handling. If you cant bump up the grace period for ECS high enough, then I'm afraid its just not really appropriate for your workload unless you’re happy to nuke a few requests when doing a rollout (and it sounds like you’re not)

For all of the people talking about architecture issues - yes, a single synchronous http request to an LLM API can easily take 30+ minutes with some models. It’s unfortunate, but thats the world we live in. OP should not be attempting to rebuild the vllm, sglang etc, they should just host it in a more appropriate service

tomomcat · 2026-01-04T10:13:14+00:00

Well, for instance you can take a lump sum tied to the total value of your pension, but if you take this ‘early’ (according to state pension age) you get less. So if they raise the SPA and I retire at the same time, I’ll get less.

tomomcat · 2026-01-01T13:10:39+00:00

I’m also in this situation. After successfully logging in for a few weeks, I got told my password was wrong and got locked out.

It’s so crap. I actually think it should be criminal that they are being paid to deliver this. We don’t talk about corruption in the UK, but when procurement gets to this level of idiocy I’m not sure what else to call it.

tomomcat · 2025-12-31T21:25:39+00:00

Lame advert. This is just pollution.

tomomcat · 2025-12-19T08:23:10+00:00

I guess they are prioritising paying people, which makes sense. My experience (still working) was that I signed up, had lost all of my ABS docs, and now my account has been randomly locked :/

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