My oh shit moment was when tool calling was emerging as a capability. That was the moment I realized that LLMs would be the glue connecting a million different use-cases in a million ways we wouldn't even be able to imagine.
Lot's of comments are nit-picking on how this demo misses the mark on specific technicalities of domains they're familiar with.
But that's totally missing the point: this is a demo of what seems like a totally new interaction model that could not previously have existed. It's a small glimpse at a possible future where those nit-picky details get better.
Remember when image models produced grotesque hands? Now look at GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana Pro; those original nits are mostly a thing of the past.
Take a look at this not for its immediate flaws but for the new doors it opens and the expansion of our collective imagination.
Is it really AI slop if someone leverages AI to improve / transform their novel experiences and ideas into a rendition that they prefer?
I'm not suggesting whether or not the article is AI assisted. I'm wondering if the ease of calling someone's work "AI slop" is a step along the slippery slope towards trivializing this sort of drive-by hostility that can be toxic in a community.
Given that the fix appears to be to look for own properties, the attack was likely to reference prototype level module properties or the gift-that-keeps-giving the that is __proto__.
That's a bit of a naive perspective. There are plenty of situations and industries where access being down has an impact far beyond inconvenience. For example, access to medical files for treatment, allergies and surgery. Or access to financial services.
What I've started experimenting with and will continue to explore is to have project-specific MCP tools.
I add MCP tools to tighten the feedback loop. I want my Agent to be able to act autonomously but with a tight set of capabilities that don't often align with off-the-shelf tools. I don't want to YOLO but I also don't want to babysit it for non-value-added, risk-free prompts.
So, when I'm developing in go, I create `cmd/mcp` and configure a `go run ./cmd/mcp` MCP server for the Agent.
It helps that I'm quite invested in MCP and built github.com/ggoodman/mcp-server-go, which is one of the few (only?) MCP SDKs that let you scale horizontally over https while still supporting advanced features like elicitation and sampling. But for local tools, I can use the familiar and ergonomic stdio driver and have my Agent pump out the tools for me.
In a previous professional life, I did financial modelling for a big 4 accounting firm. We had tooling that allowed us to visualize contiguous ranges of identical formulas (if you convert formulas to R1C1 addressing, similar formulas have the same representation). This allowed for overrides to stick out like a sore thumb.
I suspect similar tools could be made for Claude and other LLMs except that it wouldn't be plagued by the mind-numbing tedium of doing this sort of audit.
An idea might be to require a financially meaningful deposit to pursue an account recovery like this. The deposit would be forfeit if the identity verification failed.
Though now that I write this, it creates a perverse incentive for a company to collect deposits and deny account recovery.
If you were willing to bring additional zod tooling or move to something like TypeBox (https://github.com/sinclairzx81/typebox), the json schema would be a direct derivation of the tools' input schemas in code.
Ultimately though, I don't believe that channels are an abstraction that makes sense in JavaScript's concurrency model. Go's contexts, on the other hand, would be a huge improvement over AbortController and AbortSignal.
Software engineers don't want to be managing physical hardware and often need to run highly available services. When a team lacks the skill, geographic presence or bandwidth to manage physical servers but needs to deliver a highly-available service, I think the cloud offers legitimate improvements in operations with downsides such as increased cost and decreased performance per unit of cost.
This service appears to have launched a new (to me) UX based on React instead of AngularJS, like the rest of the console. I'm certainly enjoying the new design elements.
This community is also undoubtedly composed of the kind of problem solver that can overcome this kind of hurdle.