Fully agree.

If you don't change your approach but just use CLI "intead of" MCP, you'll end up with a new spin on the same problems. The guardrails MCP provides (identity, entitlement, multi-principal trust boundaries) still need to exist somewhere.

https://forestmars.substack.com/p/twilight-of-the-mcp-idols

This is the right framing. The chain policy problem is what happens when you ask the registry to be the entitlement layer.

Here's a longer piece on why the trust boundary has to live at the runtime level, not the interface level, and what that means for MCP's actual job: https://forestmars.substack.com/p/twilight-of-the-mcp-idols

Understandable as always a proxy for predictable.

This is the under acknowledged "secret" of this reconfiguration.

It's like the Bill Joy point about mediocre technology taken to the next level.

Robots making fun of us complaining about them.

"Petri dish rewrites React in Rust"

Tragically this reference is all but lost generationally.

Born in 1988. It wasn't lost on me. Am I old now too?

Born in 1979 but I don't get it. What is it about?

Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part I[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8ihcq4hzR4

This is the equivalent of “only 90’s kids will get this”. Don’t shame others for not knowing a reference you like, share it with them instead.

https://xkcd.com/1053/ (The alt text is particularly relevant)

Though I disagree it would be tragic to lose this reference. It’s not a good movie. It’s basically “say thing, immediately interpret it literally”. Throw in some stereotypes from time to time. Rinse and repeat.

Plastic cutlery is a dead-on perfect analogy.

TBF those RSUs come in handy on cold winter nights when you need tinder.

Well I was 46 years old and married at the time (still married). It helped when I could tell my wife she could stop working and getting up early and I was working remotely. It made those late nights and early morning much more enjoyable.

“Whoever said money can’t solve your problems Must not have had enough money to solve them”

(Partially joking, I make the same post BigTech as a “staff consultant” as an L5 I did mentor as an intern and when they first came back as an L4. Nothing eye popping. But decent)