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dougbright | 7 months ago | on: An LLM does not need to understand MCP

My bad. I shouldn’t have mentioned LangChain here because it’s a little besides my point. What I mean is, MCP seems designed for a world where users talk to an LLM, and the LLM calls software tools.

For the foreseeable future, especially in a business context, isn’t it more likely that users will still interact with structured software applications, and the applications will call the LLM? In that case, where does MCP fit into that flow?

dougbright | 7 months ago | on: An LLM does not need to understand MCP

The question I’m wrestling with is will anybody care about MCP? I’m working on my own MCP proxy to manage security, auditing, and server management and the more I think deeply about the actual use cases the more I wonder if I’m wasting my time. Can anyone think of a world where MCP is relevant if generic chatbots (ChatGPT, Claude Desktop) don’t become the primary human-AI interface? If LLMs are still wrapped in application wrappers, isn’t ̶a̶n̶ ̶a̶p̶p̶r̶o̶a̶c̶h̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶L̶a̶n̶g̶C̶h̶a̶i̶n̶ a more traditional agentic approach going to make more sense?

dougbright | 8 years ago | on: Rise of the Creative Class Worked a Little Too Well

The author raises good points which are hard to disagree with. I'm troubled by the decision to choose the odd and seemingly arbitrary "95-20 ratio" though, instead of a more typical 80-20.

Does anybody know what these graphs look like at 80-20?

dougbright | 11 years ago | on: How Air-Traffic Controllers Sound When They Have to Close the Airport

If you're interested in getting a similar experience to Adam check out the FAA seminar "Operation Rain Check". These scheduled events occur around the country and typically include a tour of ARTCC, TRACON, and/or tower facilities. You need to be a pilot or a guest of one but it's a tremendously interesting experience if you can swing it.

Here's a description of a seminar from a couple of years ago in NY: http://www.faasafety.gov/SPANS/event_details.aspx?eid=43755

Sadly, the FAA doesn't have a great way to find out about these things unless you're signed up for email notifications but if this is the sort of thing you're interested in you're probably industrious enough to figure it out.

dougbright | 12 years ago | on: Model aircraft operators free to operate commercially in US, rules federal judge

This is simply awesome news for startup/small business UAS operators in the US in the short term. I do have some concern, though, that this could cause the FAA to now rush the rule-making process which could result in half baked, ham fisted regulations. This is especially possible if we see several high profile accidents during this new free-for-all period.

Cheap plug: if you want to play with aerial photography but are more of a software guy than a hardware guy, check out my embarrassingly buggy side project at http://airboss.io. It's an app that lets you use an old Android phone mounted on a drone as a photography/video platform with real-time first person view streaming using WebRTC.

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