I appreciate their reluctance towards MCP, but /something/ is better than nothing.
It’s suboptimal for the reasons the author outlines: but so is USB-C. So is NVME, so is HDMI.
We use these hugely successful technologies in spite of their flaws because they’re widely compatible and easy for the end user.
That’s why MCP is everywhere. It might not be performant, robust and uniform but it WILL get better over time.
And I’d much rather have the broad MCP ecosystem that we have now than seven or eight different “optimal” ways of plugging in an LLM to something useful.
You could already use MCP perfectly well on pi via extensions.
I'm not so sure about this move, or the general inclusion of code mode in the core editor as one of pi's main selling points was its minimal nature.
Every tool marketed as minimal is usually just an excuse to ship something with limited features. Unless there is a strict design ethos at its core [0], it’ll eventually grow its features to no longer be minimal.
Further, pi is now owned by a company which as we all know, tend to explode code with features while chasing product market fit.
_fw · · focus · HN ↗
It’s suboptimal for the reasons the author outlines: but so is USB-C. So is NVME, so is HDMI.
We use these hugely successful technologies in spite of their flaws because they’re widely compatible and easy for the end user.
That’s why MCP is everywhere. It might not be performant, robust and uniform but it WILL get better over time.
And I’d much rather have the broad MCP ecosystem that we have now than seven or eight different “optimal” ways of plugging in an LLM to something useful.
skohan · · focus · HN ↗
I'm not so sure about this move, or the general inclusion of code mode in the core editor as one of pi's main selling points was its minimal nature.
qudat · · focus · HN ↗
Further, pi is now owned by a company which as we all know, tend to explode code with features while chasing product market fit.
[0]: <a href="https://bower.sh/smol-contract" rel="nofollow">https://bower.sh/smol-contract