I really want to know if I am doing something wrong so let me know
I don't use MCPs, agents.md, skills.md, plugins, nothing. I just open a DeepSeek Harness workspace and start a brainstorming session with a request for an architecture.md prompt.md and plan.md files, then I go prepare coffee while it does all it needs asking questions along the way and writing them in decisions.md so it understands why we took that route
Minutes later a fully functioning product that I run, check it complies with the initial plan and then ask for minor cosmetic changes
I've been doing it for six months now while I see posts and posts about people making their harnesses do things I don't see the need for. Why so complicated?
No special prompts, no rehearsed inputs, just a simple "Hello my friend, today we are going to create an app for transportation, ask all the questions you may have and at the end write an architecture.md ..."
It works, it is simple, it is enjoyable, like a friend of mine and as such we treat each other
Most of them are but when I need it to learn something from one already done I just point it to that workspace, like "For the invoices app take a look at inventory workspace and learn about X and Y" or "For Prince of Persia find all available code and references online and propose architecture changes to adapt to Swift on MacOS" so yes, it learns from both local or online sources
Yes that solve the knowledge part but there are also steps I need to repeat. Example: how to run a code based on risk level. That requires a tool, not just text.
bluegatty · · focus · HN ↗
AI is rapidly saturating it's ability to be useful and these products need to start to mature.
It's not 'fun' to manage 50 different broken MCPs and their variety of ways in which they are broken.
It was 'fun' at the start, now it's just 'broken technology'.
Astra and Opus 5.5 are the 'starting point' for the next era of AI where we expect robust tooling.
Kuyawa · · focus · HN ↗
I don't use MCPs, agents.md, skills.md, plugins, nothing. I just open a DeepSeek Harness workspace and start a brainstorming session with a request for an architecture.md prompt.md and plan.md files, then I go prepare coffee while it does all it needs asking questions along the way and writing them in decisions.md so it understands why we took that route
Minutes later a fully functioning product that I run, check it complies with the initial plan and then ask for minor cosmetic changes
I've been doing it for six months now while I see posts and posts about people making their harnesses do things I don't see the need for. Why so complicated?
No special prompts, no rehearsed inputs, just a simple "Hello my friend, today we are going to create an app for transportation, ask all the questions you may have and at the end write an architecture.md ..."
It works, it is simple, it is enjoyable, like a friend of mine and as such we treat each other
indrex · · focus · HN ↗
Kuyawa · · focus · HN ↗
indrex · · focus · HN ↗