DFW famously put spaces around his em dashes. That being said I've noticed at least one major model seems to have started putting spaces around its em dashes.
You have used too many words. You could not have written that many words yourself, so you must be posting slop. In fact, let's just go ahead and remove your comment which is obviously diminishing the quality of our otherwise impeccable conversations on hn. Sorry, I don't make the rules
(That being said, "the most powerful AI agent file-editing tool in the world" is a bit of a stretch.)
The most concerning thing here is the temperature problem. If your harness isn't providing deterministic output at a temperature setting of 0.0, it is broken.
Honestly, if you compare Tim's pre-GPT writing style, to his current stylometrics, you'll see a remarkably delta. It's as if he suddenly decided to change his established writing style and voice right when LLMs become widely available.
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.