that ship has sailed

for me it's that it works remotely and my kids can access it over Discord

this seems like what MCPs should have been from the beginning. If you think MCPs are better, can you explain why?

I suspect the main trade-off is structured data versus text parsing. While CLIs are composable, relying on stdout is brittle for anything complex. MCP enforces a schema (types), which acts as a contract between the model and your backend. If you're building reliable pipelines rather than just one-off scripts, that structure is pretty critical to avoid parsing errors downstream.

the problem with any approach like this based on usage metrics is that it will be abused to death

...but is it good?

No, per Steve himself.

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...

Specifically:

> It’s also 100% vibe coded. I’ve never seen the code, and I never care to, which might give you pause. ‘Course, I’ve never looked at Beads either, and it’s 225k lines of Go code that tens of thousands of people are using every day. I just created it in October. If that makes you uncomfortable, get out now.

Was it Steve Yegge who introduced "but is it good? [yes]"? I can't find the first instance of this.

have you tried adjusting the reasoning effort?

5.2-codex just came out. You could use codex with regular 5.2 for a week or so.

death before Jenkins

I think you are being downvoted because Ethereum requires you to stake 32 Eth (about $100k), and the entry queue right now is about 9 days and the exit queue is about 20 days. So only people with enough capital can join the network and it takes quite some time to join or leave as opposed to being able to do it at any time you want.

ok but these are details, the point is that the operators of the database are external, selfish and fluctuating

> you don’t have to follow the herd

meanwhile, OP's entire substack post denouncing hustle culture is about plugging his viral tweet and his ebook

It's always them, it's never us.