@kelseyhightower.com - Kelsey Hightower bsky.app

Is Kelsey jumping on the MCP hype train? Nah, I'm just learning how to explain why I'm not on it.

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If we had more intent based APIs 20 years ago, bash and curl would have been powering trillion dollar companies.

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Intent based APIs are useful for all forms of automation, not just AI agents. Tools like Kubernetes leveraged intent based APIs for infrastructure 10 years ago....

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What I'm reading from the popularity of MCP is that standardizing on REST for APIs may have been a mistake. Intent based APIs, backed by a discovery and example...

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Walking around with a book in your hand is the ultimate flex. People be like: "damn, where you find time to read".

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Reading a book, instead of using ChatGPT, is now considered a humble brag.

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Yes. This book by Rob Eastaway teaches you how to do complex maths with nothing but the back of an envelope, a pencil and some good old-fashioned brain power.

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In 20 years the most popular book will be titled: "How to think without a computer"

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Creating with constraints exposes craftsmanship.

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At this stage of my life, this is my favorite speaking format.

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Today I confirmed that it's the presentation format that I have to change. Going forward it's fireside chats only with most of the questions coming from the aud...

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Activities vs Impact.

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Sometimes I make myself 😂

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It's almost impossible to keep a conversation going on LinkedIn. Seems the platform is optimized for making connections, not building relationships.

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I was one of those people who adopted Puppet at my regular job, increased quality and velocity, without increasing cost. I didn't get much of a raise either.

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Growing up I was told I had to work twice as hard, so I did. It paid off for me, and I'd do it all over again. I never said it was fair. And I never said it was...

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In general this maybe true, but we can't ignore the last 20 to 30 years, which saw hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of developers retire early because th...

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What would I do in a situation like this?

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We are asking developers to do more with less, including less pay. Either we have managed to cut cost without reducing output, or we have increased output, but ...

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