{"id":47716052,"user":"noodletheworld","time":1775817532,"time_ago":"6 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

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You do understand that what it sounds like you're talking about is essentially a proto-MCP implementation right? Except more manual work involved.","comments":[{"id":47716728,"user":"throwanem","time":1775822141,"time_ago":"6 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

This has devolved into "MCP is web scale." https://youtu.be/b2F-DItXtZs","comments":[{"id":47719443,"user":"prohobo","time":1775834276,"time_ago":"6 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

You're clearly very intelligent and a real software engineer, maybe you can explain where I'm wrong?","comments":[{"id":47719674,"user":"throwanem","time":1775835208,"time_ago":"6 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

Sure thing! That probably won't take more than a couple years at 10-20 hours a week of tutelage, and although my usual rate for consulting of any stripe is $150 an hour, for you I'm willing to knock that all the way down to just $150 an hour.","comments":[{"id":47720322,"user":"prohobo","time":1775837728,"time_ago":"6 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

Just give us a taste of what we'd be paying for? I'm sure you're an expert but before I commit to 2+ years of consultation I'd like to see your approach.","comments":[{"id":47720791,"user":"throwanem","time":1775839852,"time_ago":"6 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

I've already pointed this out as the silly, purposeless argument it's become. (Or more become.) Even I at this point can't figure out who is advocating what or why, other than for the obvious ego reasons. You're bikeshedding at each other and wasting all the time and effort it requires, because no one else is enjoying it any more than you two are: if anything you have left your audience more confused than we began, but I see I repeat myself.

Show me you can stop doing that, and I'll happily mediate a technical version of this conversation that proceeds respectfully from the two of you each making a clear and concise statement of your design thesis, and what you see as its primary pros and cons.

For that I'll take a flat $150 for up to 4 hours. I usually bill by the 15-minute increment, but obviously we would dispense with that here, and ordinarily I would not, of course, offer such a remarkable discount. But it doesn't really take $150 worth of effort to remind someone that he should take better care to distinguish his engineering judgment and his outraged insecurity.","comments":[{"id":47721554,"user":"prohobo","time":1775843787,"time_ago":"6 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

I don't get it, you joined this thread to call me an idiot with a meme, and now you're talking about being a neutral arbiter for a technical discussion that I supposedly ruined.

More than anything I'm getting frustrated with HN discussions because people just insinuate that I'm stupid instead of making substantive arguments reasoning how what I'm saying is wrong.

Are we performing for an audience or having a discussion?","comments":[{"id":47721811,"user":"throwanem","time":1775845295,"time_ago":"6 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

I can't make heads nor tails of anyone's position in this mess, precisely because of its devolution into everyone yelling at one another. Yours happened to be the tail comment on this branch at the time I posted. Don't take it more personally than it was meant.

I understand why this website doesn't have DMs except among YC founders. But if it were otherwise, I'd have DMed you instead of posting that first comment publicly. The criticism I remain convinced has merit, but such things are better done in private. If I chose to make an example out of you over the other guy, it was because you looked like offering a better chance than he of redirecting this into the kind of discussion from which someone could conceivably learn something.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":7,"url":"item?id=47721811"}],"comments_count":1,"level":6,"url":"item?id=47721554"}],"comments_count":2,"level":5,"url":"item?id=47720791"}],"comments_count":3,"level":4,"url":"item?id=47720322"}],"comments_count":4,"level":3,"url":"item?id=47719674"}],"comments_count":5,"level":2,"url":"item?id=47719443"}],"comments_count":6,"level":1,"url":"item?id=47716728"}],"comments_count":7,"level":0,"url":"item?id=47716502"}],"comments_count":8,"url":"item?id=47716052"}

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